System requirements: Windows XP, Vista, Win 7 (圆4 support). What a fabulous application! As one geek was quoted as saying, “it’s so simple even Grandma can pull it off”. I’m generally not at a loss for words, but this experience left me absolutely dumfounded. To tell you the truth, I found the whole experience “jaw dropping”. To give you an idea of the time savings involved here from the time I clicked on to the Ninite site, chose the applications I needed, through to the completed individual application install process – less than 6 minutes had elapsed. Running the install application is a very familiar step – no learning process involved here!Īfter the install application had finished, clicking on “show details” confirmed that the individual applications had installed correctly You can see from this graphic that the executable downloaded properly into my download folder. The process is simple and highly intuitive as the following graphics illustrate. Note: The graphic shown above, represents only a small portion of available application. I simply navigated to the Ninite site, chose the applications I wanted to install (CD Burner XP, IrfanView, Opera 10.5, WinAmp Lite), from a menu of applications, clicked “Get Installer”, and since Ninite installs the latest version of each application with default settings (no annoying browser toolbars), I was good to go. In this case the solution lay with a small free on line application – Ninite. But, there’s always a solution to even the most annoying problems with technology. Having done that, then came crunch time – a long boring reinstall of all the applications I’m use to running on that machine. So Win 7 RC had to go and the solution, in this case, was to make a clean install of my old standby OS – XP Pro, which was both easy and fast. The last re-boot on this machine was 6+ months ago. This particular machine is never turned off it’s always running an application, of one type or another. Since I had been running Win 7 RC on a test platform though, this revolving two hour shutdown was a bit of a pain – I won’t say where.
Not a problem really, (or it shouldn’t be), since Beta testers were aware this was coming. Microsoft has pulled the plug on Windows 7 RC and the result is, systems running Windows 7 RC now shut down every two hours.
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