It’s simple to use and has a large selection of popular freeware and open source applications. It is a cool service created by two programmers in San Francisco who believe that installing software shouldn’t require work. Ninite will install your favorite applications in one fell swoop while you walk away and do something more enjoyable. If you’re doing a clean installation of Windows, installing your favorite apps again is time-consuming and annoying. You just make a selection from a list of applications it provides and Ninite itself bundles the selection into a single installer package. I don't mind when open source or freeware creators add such options to their installers so they can make a little money, but Adobe?!! Greedy SOBs.Ninite is a web app package management system tool that lets you automatically install popular applications for your Windows operating system. They get money for including the options for installing other software in their installer. Why? The answer, as semllbs says, is that Adobe is looking to make more money. After I go the extra mile to upgrade their sh*tty product, I find that Adobe has the nerve to try to foist a copy of McAfee Antivirus on me.

In order to make sure the updates work, I always look for a manual, standalone installer for Flash player (which for some reason is not easily found). If an error message shows at all, it is typically an obscure one.

On the thirty or so 64bit Windows 7 machines that we have in our department, the 'automatic' Flash updates almost NEVER work. Adobe doesn't care about making life easier for system administrators or for ordinary folk, otherwise they would not block ninite or hassle them (see .uk/1/adobe_says_no/).

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