Standard Installed Software (Base Image) Current for deployments after 4/05/2022.

The standard software installed on a Windows computer is also called the Base Image. Every CLASSE Managed Windows computer should have these software categories and all new deployments will have these software products installed.

Windows 10 (21H2 LTSC)

Windows 10 is the new default desktop Windows operating system. It forms the core of the Base Image and these standard programs are available.

XWindows Software

This software is used to forward X sessions from Linux systems so you can work on them from your Windows computer.
  • CLASSE GRID - provides access to X2Go and VcXsrv (called XMing for naming consistency) on our compute farm.
  • VcXsrv - standard X Windows software.

Office Software

  • Microsoft Office 2021 - Current Standard Word processing etc suite.
    • Outlook
    • Word
    • Excel
    • Powerpoint

E-Mail

Web Browsing

  • Vivaldi - Currently supported web browser.

Calendar

  • Outlook (as above)

PDF Management

  • PDF-X-Change Pro v9

SSH

SSH is used to get a shell or command line logon on a remote Linux computer.
  • Putty

File Transfer Software

SCP and SFTP are the recommended method to move files when browsing to a network share is impractical.
  • WinSCP provides FTP, SCP and SFTP services.

Zip Software

  • 7zip - currently provides right click zip / unzip of compressed files.

Screen Capture Software

  • ShareX - powerful screen capture software to capture active window, crop screen-shot, after screen capture basic edits (to add arrows, boxes, text) and save as image. Supports automatic upload to various sharing sites such as imgr and pastebin.

Utilities

  • Identity Finder - used to scan for Confidential Information.
  • CCleaner - used to clean up temporary files.
  • TortoiseSVN - used to interact with our source control servers.
  • VLC - Media Player supports most video and audio file formats.
  • nomacs - Image Previewer and basic editor (New March 2018)

Other software

There are some additional management utilities that are installed that are not user accessible in the general sense, and do not provide user functionality.
  • Antivirus (ESET Endpoint Security)
  • Management software

Windows 7 (No Longer Installed or connected to our networks)

Windows 7 is no longer supported or allowed on any lab networks.

XWindows Software

This software is used to forward X sessions from Linux systems so you can work on them from your Windows computer.
  • CLASSE GRID - provides access to X2Go and XMing on our compute farm.(New 2015)
  • VcXSrv - standard X Windows software. (New September 2017)

Office Software

  • Microsoft Office 2016 - Current Standard Word processing etc suite. (Updated September 2017)
    • Outlook
    • Word
    • Excel
    • Powerpoint

E-Mail

Web Browsing

  • Firefox ESR - Currently supported web browser.
    • Flash for Firefox

Calendar

  • Outlook (as above)

PDF Management

  • PDF-X-Change Pro v6(Updated May 2016)
  • PDF-X-Change Viewer - view and make minor edits to PDFs (Deprecated, 2014)
  • PDF Creator - print to PDF (Deprecated, 2014)
  • PDFTK Builder - (new Oct, 14, 2010) (Deprecated, 2014)

SSH

SSH is used to get a shell or command line logon on a remote Linux computer.
  • Putty

File Transfer Software

SCP and SFTP are the recommended method to move files when browsing to a network share is impractical.
  • WinSCP provides FTP, SCP and SFTP services.

Zip Software

  • 7zip - currently provides right click zip / unzip of compressed files.

Screen Capture Software

  • ShareX - powerful screen capture software to capture active window, crop screen-shot, after screen capture basic edits (to add arrows, boxes, text) and save as image. Supports automatic upload to various sharing sites such as imgr and pastebin. (New 12/2016)
  • Zscreen - (Deprecated 12/2016)

Utilities

  • Identity Finder - used to scan for Confidential Information.
  • CCleaner - used to clean up temporary files.
  • TortoiseSVN - used to interact with our source control servers. (New May 2016)
  • VLC - Media Player supports most video and audio file formats. (New May 2016)
  • nomacs - Image Previewer and basic editor (New March 2018)

Other software

There are some additional management utilities that are installed that are not user accessible in the general sense, and do not provide user functionality.
  • Antivirus (ESET Endpoint Security) (New March 2016)
  • Antivirus (Symantec EndPoint Protection)(Deprecated February 2016)
  • Disk Defragmentation (MyDefrag) (Deprecated 2015)
  • Management software

Windows XP (No Longer Installed or connected to our networks)

Windows XP is no longer supported or allowed on any lab networks.

XWindows Software

This software is used to forward X sessions from VMS, Unix and Linux systems so you can work on them from your Windows computer.
  • Exceed 2006 (Deprecated) - Limited support and only used for special use cases.
  • XMing - current standard X Windows software for most users.

Office Software

  • Microsoft Office 2010 - Current Standard Word processing etc suite.
    • Outlook
    • Word
    • Excel
    • Powerpoint

E-Mail

Web Browsing

  • Firefox 10ESR - Currently supported web browser.
    • Flash
    • Shockwave
    • Java 1.6 or Java 6.x - Sun has provided confusing numbering for Client Java Runtimes. LEPP supports the v6 series of Java, regardless of naming scheme.

Calendar

  • Outlook (as above)

PDF Management

  • PDF-X-Change Viewer - view and make minor edits to PDFs (New May 8th, 2012)
  • PDF Creator - print to PDF
  • PDFTK Builder - re arrange PDFs, Split PDFs.

SSH

SSH is used to get a shell or command line logon on a remote Linux, Unix, or VMS computer.
  • Putty

File Transfer Software

SCP and SFTP are the recommended method to move files when browsing to a network share is impractical.
  • WinSCP provides SCP and SFTP services.
  • Windows Explorer (My Computer) can use FTP for accessing VMS if SFTP fails. This can be done with an FTP URI. Example FTP://lns62.lepp.cornell.edu (This is deprecated. Should NOT be used from off the lab network).

Zip Software (new Oct 14, 2010)

*7zip - currently provides right click zip / unzip of compressed files.

Screen Capture Software (new Oct 1, 2010)

  • ZScreen - powerful screen capture software to capture active window, crop screen-shot, after screen capture basic edits (to add arrows, boxes, text) and save as image.

Other software

There are some additional management utilities that are installed that are not user accessable in the general sense, and do not provide user functionality.
  • Antivirus
  • Disk Defragmentation

-- JamesPulver - 01 Nov 2017

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