Having set up multiple pcs for friends and family I often got calls from especially my parents with "it says I should update something, I didn't know what to do

Having set up multiple pcs for friends and family I often got calls from especially my parents with "it says I should update something, I didn't know what to do so I closed the window, what should I do now?". I found the solution (for windows machines) a tool called Ninite (http://ninite.com http://ninite.com). It makes an installer with a lot of commonly used apps such as flash, chrome, java, Skype, TEAMVIEWER (for additional iFamilyTechSupport cases) etc. Every time you run this installer it automatically updates all of the applications with the newest version. Another bonus is that you don't have to click "next" or "install" and you don't have to worry about toolbars (no more Ask toolbars when updating java!!). They do have some "upgrade" options where the installer runs silently in the background in my case it was enough to make a simple task that is set to run once a month and the instructions I gave haven't caused confusion yet: "Once a month this small thing appears, just let it do its thing and click Close when it is done" Just make sure you enter these applications and disable the update notification settings so you avoid the phone calls you can't do anything about.