InstallPad - Script Commonly Used programs to install

[Malice]

I just started looking at a program InstallPad

It looks interesting. If you have a windows machine you reinstall often, or need to reinstall programs for work, this might be a great program.

You basically download the .exe file (it does not install to a computer, its just a .exe file and associated .xml file for the list of programs to install)

It will go out, download and install the apps....

I am going to start playing with it to install my commonly used applications to see how it works.

I am about to start working on it going out and getting the following apps
Firefox
Irfanview
IrfanRecorder
Notepad++
Spybot Search and Destroy
Filezilla
Thunderbird
Mioplanet Battery Meter
Audacity
Foxit Reader
OpenOffice
WinMerge
Eraser
Keepass Password Safe
Pidgin
Skype
Karen's Power Tools - Replicator
7-Zip
FreeCommander
Lanspy
TrueCrypt
Media Player Classic

What do you think....ever used it?

 

[adam-red]

Why not just image it? Use something like CloneZilla

 

[Malice]

Why not just image it? Use something like CloneZilla

Honestly never used CloneZilla...looking into it now...some people dont like taking images, like to install stuff fresh...but that is a different discussion.

Thanks for the link...to it

 

[Mixairian]

Acronis... I love Acronis.

 

[adam-red]

Costs though dunnit....and I'm too much of a cheapskate to pay for software so its FOSS all the way