If you frequently find yourself installing Windows applications for friends, family that has wrecked their computer or because you’re a frequent Windows Beta tester there is a great tool for you.

Ninite

Simply go to the Ninite site and select from dozens of apps and then click Get Installer and Ninite builds you a Windows installer of all the apps you’ve selected.  Much like the simple process of selecting your apps, your installation runs smoothly with little or no prompts.

There are a couple of limitations to the installer – the applications must be on their list and the machine installing must have web access.  However, lucky for us the current selection has a large number of applications unlike Google Pack and it’s extremely limited selection.

The current selection of apps includes:

Web Browsers

• Chrome
• Safari
• Opera
• Firefox

Messaging

• Skype
• Messenger
• Pidgin
• Digsby
• Google Talk
• Thunderbird

Media

• iTunes
• Songbird
• Hulu
• VLC
• KMPlayer
• AIMP
• Audacity
• Spotify

Imaging

• Paint.NET
• Picasa
• GIMP
• IrfanView
• XnView

Documents

• Office (Trial)
• OpenOffice
• Adobe Reader
• Foxit Reader
• CutePDF

Anti-Virus

• Essentials
• Avast
• AVG

Runtimes

• Flash
• Flash (IE)
• Java
• .Net
• Silverlight

File Sharing

• uTorrent
• eMule

Other

• Dropbox
• Evernote
• BumpTop
• Steam
• Google Earth

Utilities

• ImgBurn
• CCleaner
• Launchy
• Revo
• Defraggler
• RealVNC
• CDBurnerXP
• Recuva

Compression

• 7-Zip
• WinRAR

Developer Tools

• Python
• FileZilla
• Notepad ++
• JDK
• WinSCP
• PuTTY
• Eclipse