![]() Not the prettiest of computers but it has the specs I wanted and the price was most definitely right. If you’re curious, the blend of programs I usually download from ninite for school machines:Īnyone else have good tools they like to use when setting up a new computer?Ĭame home today to the most wonderful kind of mail – my new laptop! Thanks to woot, I’m now the proud owner of a Lenovo Thinkpad. I’ve been using ninite for about a year to set up school and personal computers, and I’ve been happy with every experience. The installer skips all those annoying toolbar downloads and saves you a ton of time. You just choose the programs you want (including many open-source options) and then download an installer. Ninite gives you a great list of programs to choose from. is a huge time saver and makes my life so much easier. At my small school, anything I want to install has to be done manually, sitting in front of each computer. If you’re working at a larger school, chances are your computers are networked and it’s a little easier for you to install and update your machines. Try it out! And remember, you never need more than one real-time anti-virus program running at the same time – it doesn’t give you extra protection and it slows down your machine. That means I can install it on every computer and don’t need to worry about registering or updating licenses the way I did when I used Avast! on all our machines. ![]() What makes this particularly good for small schools? It works on most versions of Windows, from XP on up – nice when you have a wide range of operating systems on various ages of machines, like we do. I use a combination of MSE and Malwarebytes for the occasional stubborn infection. But it’s the newest kid to the playground that I’ve started using on all my school’s computers: Microsoft Security Essentials Then there’s a variety of open-source versions like Avast or AVG. So many computers come pre-installed with heavy versions that take up a lot of space and need to be renewed for lots of money in a few months or a year. Anti-virus – it’s a given that you need it, but the market is swamped with options.
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