Ninite offers a very simple way to eliminate the boring task of installing the programs after formatting the computer. You select the programs you want to install and it automatically downloads and installs all the programs selected for you, completely free User interaction.

The task is so simple, that in just three steps you will be assisting the installation of all your programs having a coffee.

All you have to do is (1) access the site Ninite to select which programs you install, (2) download the custom installer and (3) run it on your computer.

A collection of programs available for selection in Ninite (99% free) continues to grow and you can choose from several options within each category (Internet, Multimedia, Office, Security, Utilities, Development, etc.). Ninite always installs the latest version of the programs and they are installed with the default setting.

Software that you can install automatically:

Browsers: Chrome, Safari, Opera Firefox;

IM: Skype, Windows Live Messenger, Pidgin, Digsby, Google Talk, Thunderbird;

Multimedia: iTunes, Songbird, Hulu, VLC, KMPlayer, AIMP, Audacity, Spotify;

Image Editor: Paint.NET, Picasa, GIMP, IrfanView, XnView;

Antivirus: Microsoft Security Essentials, Avast Antivirus Home, AVG Free Anti-Virus 9.0;

Runtimes: Flash Player, Java, .NET 3.5, Silverlight;

File Sharing: uTorrent. eMule ;

Utilities: ImgBurn, CCleane,r Launchy, Revo Uninstaller, Defraggle,r RealVNC CDBurnerXP, Recuva;

File compression: 7-Zip, WinRAR;

Other: Dropbox, Evernote, BumpTop, Google Earth.

Via: Gizmodo.