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Standard Software

A fairly wide selection of general-purpose applications are installed on the Windows systems

Some applications such as Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator have a limited number of network licenses available. The system will only allow a certain number of instances of these to run within the department at the same time.

Partial software list

General-purpose

  • Microsoft Office Pro 2003 (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, Publisher)
  • Microsoft Office 2007 Viewers for Word, Excel, Powerpoint
  • Filemaker Pro

Internet

  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Mozilla Thunderbird
  • Browser plugins for Flash, Shockwave
  • Macromedia Plugin for Breeze
  • DjVu browser plugin
  • Internet Explorer 7

Graphical tools

  • Adobe CS2 (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, ImageReady, GoLive) [2 licenses]
  • Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0 [12 licenses]
  • Xara Xtreme Pro (graphics/drawing) [5 licenses]
  • Xara 3D6 (3D graphics/drawing) [1 license]
  • Macromedia Dreamweaver 8.0 [2 licenses]
  • Paint.NET (image manipulation)

Research/Analytical software

  • Mathematica 6.0
  • Origin
  • IDL
  • Nanoscope
  • Plot Digitizer

Utilities

  • xming (X11 server)
  • Ghostscript 8.53, GSView 4.8
  • Apple iTunes
  • Apple Quicktime
  • Java J2SE 6.0
  • Oracle calendar (for UCal)
  • SecureCRT 5.0 (SSH/telnet client) [5 licenses]
  • SSH Secure Shell and SFTP 3.2.9
  • WinSCP
  • SmartFTP 2.0
  • STGMS (Space Telescope Grants Management)
  • ICS Viewer 6.0 (for EDMS)
  • Telnet 3270 (also called QWS3270)
  • ConTEXT (programmers text editor)
  • UltraVNC
  • SciFinger Scholar (for UMN libraries)
  • Quick View Plus (universal file viewer) [5 licenses]
  • PrintKey 2000 (screen capture)
  • Symantec Antivirus Corp. Edition
  • 7-Zip (zip file manager)
  • CD Burner XP pro (CD/DVD burning software)
  • Xythos Drive (NetFiles access)

This wiki page may not be kept up to date at all times. For exact details of the software load on a given PC, look at the file C:\relnotes.txt, which contains a detailed list of changes.

Please do not install any of your own software on the Windows PCs. Normal user accounts lack sufficient permissions to fully install new software, so the installation will often not work properly. The Windows computers are also reinstalled fairly regularly, so any nonstandard programs will be lost.

 
 
 
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