Difference between revisions of "Software Configuration"

Revision as of 22:35, 21 August 2015

Software and Configuration for PCs in Seaver 120

• Latest Update for Mozilla FireFox (40.0.2)
  • Options set to default downloads to Desktop and to ask each time a file is downloaded
    • Go to the Options menu, General options
    • First, under the "Downloads" section, next to "Save files to" click the "Browse" button, select the Desktop, and click the OK button.
    • Second, click the radio button next to "Always ask me where to save files"

• Latest update for Google Chrome (Version 44.0.2403.157 m)
  • Options set to default downloads to Desktop and to ask each time a file is downloaded
    • Go to Settings page, click on link to "Show advanced settings"
    • First, under the "Downloads" section, click the "Change..." button, select the Desktop, and click the OK button.
    • Second, check the box next to "Ask where to save each file before downloading"

• PostgreSQL 9.4
• Java JDK 1.8 64-bit
• Subversion
• Ant
• Eclipse/subclipse
• 7-zip
• GenMAPP 2.1
  • Certain databases downloaded
  • do not automatically look for updates
• firstobject
• PuTTY
• Run Windows update

Set Windows to View File Extensions

• The Windows 7 operating systems defaults to hiding file extensions. To turn them back on, do the following:
  
  1. Go to the Start menu and select "Control Panel".
  2. In the window that appears, search for "Folder Options" in the search field in the upper right hand corner.
  3. Click on "Folder Options" in the main window.
  4. When the Folder Options window appears, click on the View tab.
  5. Uncheck the box for "Hide extensions for known file types".
  6. Click the OK button.