Windows Apps on Asimov

Common Windows Applications and links

# File links and applications available on the CS Applications Server

Local resources

• WindowsInCS

Notes: File references to ASIMOV are restricted to CS Admin Staff access

AV software and tools links

• ASIMOV COMMON\AntiVirus_AntiSpyWare_Tools

AVAST Free Antivirus

• http://www.avast.com/free-antivirus-download

AVG Anti-Virus FREE

• http://free.avg.com/ww-en/free-antivirus-download

F-Secure AV Tools

• http://www.f-secure.com/en/web/labs_global/removal-tools

Kaspersky Anti-Virus (Commercial product with 30 Trial)

• http://usa.kaspersky.com/downloads/product-downloads/kaspersky-anti-virus

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Free

• http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free

Microsoft Security Tools

• http://www.microsoft.com/security/pc-security/default.aspx#Safety-products-and-scans
• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/cc297183

Symantec AV Tools

• http://www.ist.uwaterloo.ca/admin/virus.html

NON AV detection tools

Active Ports - Windows NT/2000/XP

• Active Ports is a tool that monitors all open TCP and UDP ports on a local computer.
• http://www.devicelock.com/freeware.html

Sysinternals Utilities

• The Sysinternals web site was created in 1996 by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell to host their advanced system utilities and technical information. Whether you’re an IT Pro or a developer, you’ll find Sysinternals utilities to help you manage, troubleshoot and diagnose your Windows systems and applications.
• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/sysinternals
• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/sysinternals/bb545027

TaskInfo

• TaskInfo is a poweful utility that combines and improves features of Task Manager and System Information tools. It visually monitors (in text and graphical forms) different types of system information in any Windows system
• http://www.iarsn.com/taskinfo.html

Trend Micro Clean-up Tools

• Trend Micro offers free tools that help detect, identify and clean computers that have been infected by viruses, malware and other Web threats. These tools are powered by the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network, which identifies these threats using a tightly integrated system that correlates threat intelligence from in-the-cloud databases with a global feedback network.
• http://free.antivirus.com/clean-up-tools/

Application Links

ASIMOV COMMON

7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio

• http://www.7-zip.org/

Adobe Reader PDF document viewer

• http://get.adobe.com/reader/

PassMark Software PC benchmarking (free trial)

• Fast, easy to use, PC speed testing and benchmarking. PassMark PerformanceTest ™ allows you to objectively benchmark a PC using a variety of different speed tests and compare the results to other computers.
• http://www.passmark.com/products/pt.htm

PassMark CPU benchmarks

• 350K+ Systems Tested and 1,200+ CPU Models - Updated Daily!
• PassMark Software has delved into the thousands of benchmark results that PerformanceTest users have posted to its web site and produced five Intel vs AMD CPU charts to help compare the relative speeds of the different processors. Included in this list are CPUs designed for servers and workstations (Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron processors), desktop CPUs (Intel Core2 Quad, Intel Core i7, Intel Core2 Extreme and AMD Phenom II processors), in addition to mobile CPUs.
• http://www.cpubenchmark.net/

CDBurnerXP

• CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free. It does not include adware or similar malicious components.
• http://www.cdburnerxp.se/

Deployment Tools

AppDeploy

• ppDeploySM combs the Internet in search of tools that would be of benefit to the deployment community. Browse alphabetically, by category, or by Company name. If you know of a tool that belongs here
• http://www.appdeploy.com/downloads/

InstallRite

• InstallRite (which includes all the features of InstallWatch) provides "application cloning" as opposed to "disk cloning", simplifying software distribution.
• http://www.appdeploy.com/tools/detail.asp?id=103

The Windows® Automated Installation Kit (AIK) Supplement for Windows® 7 SP1

• http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=5188

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

• NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open source system to create Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore very suitable for internet distribution.
• http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page

Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows CD/DVD

• Bart's PE Builder helps you build a "BartPE" (Bart Preinstalled Environment) bootable Windows CD-Rom or DVD from the original Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installation/setup CD, very suitable for PC maintenance tasks.
• http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

Update your Windows product key

• http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/help/genuine/product-key

GNU Emacs

• GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing. The features of GNU Emacs include:
• http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

Email Utilities

• DbxConv - DBX to MBOX converter
  • http://www.ukrebs-software.de/english/dbxconv/dbxconv.html
• Mbox2eml - MBOX to EML converter
  • http://www.ukrebs-software.de/english/mbox2eml/mbox2eml.html
• Duplicates Remover for Microsoft Outlook
  • http://www.office-addins.com/-outlook-addins/duplicates-remover-for-outlook.html
• Upstart is a utility for tracking and managing PSTs. (commercial product)
  • Upstart is a utility for tracking and managing PSTs. It lists PSTs, converts PSTs between ANSI and Unicode formats, merges PSTs (with optional de-duping), and splits PSTs (by size, date or item class).
  • http://www.maclean.com/upstart.php

FileZilla Client

• We recommend not using this

GhostView

• GSview is a graphical interface for Ghostscript. Ghostscript is an interpreter for the PostScript page description language used by laser printers. For documents following the Adobe PostScript Document Structuring Conventions, GSview allows selected pages to be viewed or printed. GSview requires Ghostscript. GSview is available for Windows, OS/2 and Linux.
• http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/index.htm

GhostScript

• An interpreter for the PostScript (TM) language, with the ability to convert PostScript language files to many raster formats, view them on displays, and print them on printers that don't have PostScript language capability built in;
• http://www.ghostscript.com/

GIMP

• GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages. (more...)
• http://www.gimp.org/about/introduction.html
• http://www.gimp.org/

GnuPG

• GnuPG is the GNU project's complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard as defined by RFC4880 . GnuPG allows to encrypt and sign your data and communication, features a versatile key management system as well as access modules for all kinds of public key directories. GnuPG, also known as GPG, is a command line tool with features for easy integration with other applications. A wealth of frontend applications and libraries are available. Version 2 of GnuPG also provides support for S/MIME.
• http://www.gnupg.org/

IsoBuster

• Rescue lost files from a bad or trashed CD or DVD or a Blu Ray disc (e.g. BD or HD DVD) ! Save important documents, precious pictures or video from the family, your only system backup, ...

IsoBuster can do it all !

• http://www.isobuster.com/isobuster.php

Itunes

• Tunes is a free application for your Mac or PC. It lets you organize and play digital music and video on your computer. It can automatically download new music, app, and book purchases across all your devices and computers. And it’s a store that has everything you need to be entertained. Anywhere. Anytime.
• http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
• http://www.apple.com/itunes/
• http://www.apple.com/itunes/what-is/

Java

• Java Runtime and Development tools
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/index.html

LibreOffice Windows

• LibreOffice is the power-packed free, libre and open source personal productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and GNU/Linux, that gives you six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base.
• http://www.libreoffice.org/download/

MikTex

• MiKTeX (pronounced mick-tech) is an up-to-date implementation of TeX and related programs for Windows (all current variants).
• http://miktex.org/

Mozilla Folder

Firefox Web Browser

• http://www.mozilla.org/
• http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/fx/

Firefox Plugins

BetterPrivacy

• Remove or manage a new and uncommon kind of cookies, better known as LSO's.The BetterPrivacy safeguard offers various ways to handle Flash-cookies set by Google, YouTube, Ebay and others...
• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/betterprivacy/?src=ss

Table2Clipboard

• Mozilla applications allow to select rows and columns from a table simply pressing Control key and picking rows/columns with left mouse button.

The selection can be copied to clipboard but the original table disposition is lost making ugly results when you paste the text on datasheet applications (eg excel).

• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dafizilla-table2clipboard/?src=search

Flashblock

• Never be annoyed by a Flash animation again! Blocks Flash so it won't get in your way, but if you want to see it, just click on...
• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flashblock/?src=ss

Image Zoom

• Adds zoom and rotation functionality for images...
• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/image-zoom/?src=search

It's All Text!

• Edit textareas using an external editor, because it's all text!
• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/its-all-text/?src=search

NoScript

• The best security you can get in a web browser!

Allow active content to run only from sites you trust, and protect yourself against XSS and Clickjacking attacks.

• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/?src=search

User Agent Switcher

• The User Agent Switcher extension adds a menu and a toolbar button to switch the user agent of a browser.
• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-switcher/?src=search

Thunderbird Email

• http://www.mozilla.org/#feature-thunderbird
• http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/

Plugins

Addressbooks Synchronizer

• Synchronizes selected addressbooks with other instances of thunderbird

using ftp/webdav/imap servers

• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/addressbooks-synchronizer/?src=search

Filter Of Filters

• search bar for vast number of filters.If you have a vast number of filters, it is difficult to find out a certain filter to edit. This add is for helping you on this situation.
• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/filter-of-filters/?src=search

Remove Duplicate Messages (Alternate)

• Search and remove messages which are the same as other messages in your mail folders (referred to as duplicates or dupes).
• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/remove-duplicate-messages-alte/?src=ss

Thunderbird Message Filter Import/Export Enhanced

• Thunderbird Message Filter Import/Export Enhanced is a compatibility port of Wind Li's add on.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/tb-import-export-wind-li-port/?src=ss

HTTRACK

• It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer.
• http://www.httrack.com/
• http://www.httrack.com/html/index.html - Documentation
• http://www.httrack.com/html/faq.html - FAQ

Network and Wireless

IST Cert

• Installing the certificate for the UW/IST Certificate Authority (CA) in a browser requires that you click on the link and follow the instructions.
• http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/security/IST-CA/pre-install.html

Synergy

• Synergy lets you easily share your mouse and keyboard between multiple computers on your desk, and it's Free and Open Source.
• http://synergy-foss.org/

TCP Optimizer

• The TCP Optimizer is a free, easy Windows program that provides an intuitive interface for tuning and optimizing your Internet connection. There is no installation required, just download and run.
• http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php
• http://www.speedguide.net/tcpoptimizer.php

Wireshark

• Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer. It lets you capture and interactively browse the traffic running on a computer network. It is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions.
• http://www.wireshark.org

Notepad++

• Notepad++ is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License.
• http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

NoteTab

• NoteTab ® is a leading text editor, popular Notepad replacement, and powerful code-based HTML editor.
• NoteTab Light is a freeware product.
  • http://www.notetab.com/downloads.php

OpenOffice

• OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.
• http://www.openoffice.org/
• http://www.openoffice.org/distribution/mirrors/#mirrors