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Recover from a reformat in a snap with SIP

Robert Hallock April 24, 2009 2:41 PM ET in Tech

No, not the VoIP protocol, but Smart Installer Pack! This interactive front-end hooks directly to download servers to grab and install over twenty different popular applications at the user’s discretion.

Winamp? Firefox? Flash? Java? Avira? WinRAR? Codecs? Yeah, SIP can do that. Stop the vast majority of your post-format downloading in its tracks! You pick the program, it grabs the download, you install the app.

What could be easier?

Image courtesy of SIP

Image courtesy of SIP

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8 Comments:

  1. Snarkasm
    The Photographer.
    24 Apr '09, 2:59 pm

    Is there anything for those of us that have all our installers already, we just want to compile them into one big bang and poosh butan?

  2. Robert Hallock
    Cad
    24 Apr '09, 2:59 pm

    Not that I know of. I'll look into it.

  3. Cliff_Forster
    Keepin it real
    24 Apr '09, 3:16 pm

    You ever have one of those, "why didn't I think of this" moments?

    Now that is 100% awesome, the time that is going to save me doing one install at a time off a USB key.

    Awesome find!!

  4. Kwitko
    Sheriff of Dicktown
    24 Apr '09, 3:17 pm

    That will work well for when I'm doing reinstalls for the family rigs. In fact, I think I'm reinstalling XP on my brother's PC this weekend.

  5. the_technocrat
    Veteran Icrontian
    24 Apr '09, 3:43 pm

    Snark/ Rob - either slipstream or use AutoIT

  6. Robert Hallock
    Cad
    24 Apr '09, 4:12 pm

    TT: I think Snark is looking for a more elegant solution than making nlite cabs or coding the installs by hand.

  7. Snarkasm
    The Photographer.
    24 Apr '09, 4:55 pm

    ^ Yar. WinMo phones, for example, have a program (that I naturally can't remember now) where you can just write a text file of all the cabs you want to install and as long as they're in the same directory as the file, you can launch that right after install to set everything back up how it was.

    If it can't be done, it can't be done. Too many things probably have restarts required or somesuch. Still, there might be something.

  8. Nemikan
    Chat with me!
    30 Apr '09, 11:34 am

    How many of those files do you guys normally use?
    Generally speaking, I'd be downloading open office, winrar, the extensions for firefox, and ccleaner.

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