Feature: Automatically Load and Update Your Windows Systems
David
One of the best parts of getting a new computer for the holidays—other than that new computer smell—is setting up a fresh, clean system exactly how you want it. Your customized productivity apps, your favorite media players, and maybe even some of the software tools you’ve seen on one blog or another.But searching out, click-click-click-installing, and keeping all those programs updated in Windows can add up to some serious time. We’ve covered automation apps like InstallPad and AppSnap, and updating tools such as FileHippo, but I’ve found that Appupdater, a Linux-like command line tool, can handle both functions, automatically, with just a little tapping in the command line.
Follow along after the jump and we’ll get started on keeping a number of ultra-useful Windows programs up to date and making them easy to load on a new system.
Note: Appupdater is a free, open source program maintained entirely by one man, Neil McNab, who provided gracious guidance for this walk-through. It’s technically in beta at the moment, and while it likely won’t mess anything up on your system, it shouldn’t be installed on a machine with sensitive data, just to be safe.
I’ll start off by showing how to install Appupdater and keep a working computer updated. If you just want to set up a freshly-installed system, skip down to the section labeled “Create your applications list.”
Feature: Automatically Load and Update Your Windows Systems
Posted on: Monday, December 24, 2007 at 10:27 pm 
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