Before Upgrading to Windows 7, Grab This!

I have to say, this is cool. Though I don't know if I'd trust it to go through the installs correctly. I often do quirky little things during install. Now, if I could set up a batch of program configurations with it I'd be really excited.

That's nice. Now all you have to do is just use nLite/vLite or smiler program and slipstream it to the OS.

On a side note: How does the installer figure out what to install first? For example JDK needs to be installed before an IDE (Eclipse,NetBeans,etc)

PS: Wish they had NetBeans also.

The programs are downloaded from their respective websites; and the installations happen without problems.
Sponsored links like yahoo toolbar or equals are ignored!

You know, that REALLY looks like a screenshot of the software in OS X. Sort of like when Ballmer was on Today displaying all sorts of Win 7 computers and the image behind him was of a MacBook Pro.

I'm surprised they don't have an option for Winamp.

I sort of do this already. I have a folder with the installers for all my favorite aps. What happens is when I need to reinstall or upgrade the OS or just fix up some ones PC, I update all the files in that folder (sometimes they do not need to be...) But this ap looks like it could speed that up for me, so I am going to try it out.

Yes you can do all that yourself. 66% of the programs out there have installers that accept command line switches. The ones that don't you can write an AutoIt Script to recognize the install screens and click the right buttons .. and there are programs that will let you bundle it all up in a single installer ....

I used one disc to automatically install Windows, one to apply all the patches and a 3rd to install software.

But the time it saved wasn't justified by the number of installs I'd perform before having to update it.

This site does all that work for you ... for a limited selection or programs.

Could be either tbh, although the one below is def. windows. Don't see how it matters much, as its the program itself being discussed.

I currently install all my programs to a seperate drive (just partition really), which allows me to minimise the amount of space I need to back up my system files for quick recovery (not that I've ever needed to yet), will this let you choose a different drive to the default C drive to install to?

yeah yeah yeah....

a typical Apple fanboy's day dreaming...!!

I'm still waiting for my copy of Windows 7 Ultimate to ship to me

I'm fixing to deploy Win 7. I'll try this.

Hehe, just seen the Bullmer demo on Today, yep, def a MacBook pro, love it when people with no clue get it amusingly wrong. Worked out ok though, did a good job of being nondescript enough to not upstage the products being displayed... which all generally had a fair amount of aesthetic appeal, all except that ghastly gaming rig, though, what were they thinking, they could have had something really nice there instead. Oh well.

Hehe, just seen the Bullmer demo on Today, yep, def a MacBook pro, love it when people with no clue get it amusingly wrong. Worked out ok though, did a good job of being nondescript enough to not upstage the products being displayed... which all generally had a fair amount of aesthetic appeal, all except that ghastly gaming rig, though, what were they thinking, they could have had something really nice there instead. Oh well.

This looks surprising like a linux software manager... with the correct repo setup, of course...

so we need this BEFORE we isntall win 7...? Why not just get it afterwards..?

im still on the search to get all my apps back. its tough

If I'm doing an upgrade rather than a full install, why is this necessary? Doesn't an upgrade leave my existing Vista apps still there?

ewww, upgrade. Fresh install is usually better, I had heard they were improving the w7 upgrade method a lot, but then heard nothing about it near launch so maybe they never got round to it. Luckily for me having everything on seperate drives meant all i had to do was install a few prog's and remap my document folders to the right place.

This is definitely a very nifty little tool. I'm quite glad it has The KMPlayer; my personal media player of choice.

Had to ask for Daemon Tools though. Asked for Steam too, just because I could. Ohh, and Katawa Shoujo, because more people need to read that.

This looks downright cool. I'll have to grab this when I decide to go off the RC and onto the full release.

... it's good for the first time... but, if you use the package after reinstall may be, the the software included gonna be out of date... so you need to make a new one...

I just used it on one of my laptops after clean installing 7. Not a bad little installer!

I'll just download Ubuntu 9.10 (for free), releasing this Thursday on the 29th.

Why don't you save your apps in a folder and back up your drive. External hard drives are so cheap, they make a great backup platform. Then when you have to re-install a OS you have them. They may be out of date but you can just run the update on them.
In Linux I have a list I keep updated of personal tweaks and programs (where I got them) I use thats makes things easy.

Great timing for this article! thank you

Not sure I'm ready to jump ship and wipe the HDD to upgrade from Xp, but a very cool app regardless.

I don't think they could automate Daemon tools well. Since it uses a kernel mode driver for the virtualized drive it requires a restart in between loading the driver and installing the software.

no winamp, no burnware, noyahoo messenger.

If it had those it would be imba ) gl nice program anyway for those who dont use the above.

This looks like an awesome program. And it's free! Thanks for the heads up!

This thing is pretty neat but I probably won't need it b/c I really don't use much in the way of applications.