Downloadater

Right after a fresh installation of Windows you most likely take the time to download and install all your necessary utilities and updates. Needless to say that the whole process is tedious, especially if you work with a great deal of third-party tools. Luckily, one fast management solution in this regard is Downloadater.

Setup doesn’t take a lot of time, but you’re not ready just yet. You might need to pay a visit to the install location to additionally run the Setup.bat file so that Chocolatey, the core requirement of Downloadater, is grabbed and installed. Moreover, the application needs to be launched with administrator privileges.

Everything is done through a command line interface, but you don’t need to get discouraged by this. Everything is highly intuitive, and most of your effort narrows down to confirming a few dialogs and writing down the corresponding codes of the programs you want to process.

Downloadater is a program which can download, update, and remove particular third-party programs. This is entirely unattended, with no other windows showing up than the command line interface in which everything is performed, and this is available for all three operations.

Note that updating and removing programs only works with items processed through Downloadater, and not if they’re already there or you manually install them. This is because everything is kept track of for efficient management.

When downloading, your web browser pops-up with a list of programs you can download and their corresponding code. Multiple items can be grabbed at a time by simply writing the codes separated by spaces on a single line. The same goes for updating and removing.

Downloadater can process an impressive variety of third-party applications, which are structured into categories like web browsers, runtimes, media, documents, compression, image editing, Cloud services, security, utilities, and even benchmarking tools, and these include various programs you’re already familiar with.

Bottom line is that an unattended configuration of the computer is key in times when you work with an abundance of third-party tools. Downloadater does a great job at downloading, updating, and removing various popular applications which can handle just about any kind of task. You work in a single window from start to end, being worth your while overall.