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Supported Windows XP Software

Information Services supports the software which appears on the standard desktops of the networked Windows XP service.

Supported software for Windows XP

The table below lists all the software applications available, along with the corresponding level of support and software licence type.

 

                   Supported Windows XP Software
Software Application NameNumber of licences

Principle Applications

Access 

SITE

Endnote 

SITE

Excel 

SITE

Internet Explorer 

SITE

PowerPoint 

SITE

SPSS 

SITE

Word 

SITE

Lotus NotesSITE

Assistive Software

Punctuate

SITE

SuperNova 

SITE

TextHelp Read & Write Gold 

SITE

Concept & Mind Mapping

CMAP Tools 

SITE

Inspiration 

SITE

MindGenius 

SITE

Cymraeg

Cysglaid

SITE

Office Welsh Language Installer

SITE

Set keyboard to Welsh/English

SITE

Set Office to Welsh/English

SITE

Images & Presentation

Adobe Acrobat 

30

Adobe Reader 

FREE

Corel

SITE

Publisher 

SITE

Internet, Web & Email

Firefox 

FREE

Gaim

FREE

Internet Explorer 

SITE

Internet Explorer 

SITE

Putty

SITE

SSH 

FREE

WSFTP 

50

X-win32 

SITE

Qualitative Analysis

NVivo

*Support for software installation only

SITE

Spreadsheets & Databases

Access 

SITE

Endnote 

SITE

Excel 

SITE

Statistics & Graphing

Digi99

SITE

Minitab

SITE

Origin 

15

SPSS 

SITE

SPSS Data Entry 

SITE

Others

Anti-virus Toolkit

SITE


 

Some known issues with supported software

Please read carefully the following information about the support and performance of existing applications under Windows XP.

Information on specific applications

GhostView

User preferences cannot be saved and hence will not be persistent across sessions.

 

Internet Explorer

When accessing secure sites you may encounter a message that prompts you to Work Offline. Select Try Again at this point.

 

Microsoft Developer Studio 6

The full functionality of this suite can only be accessed if the user is a workstation administrator.

 

Photoshop 6

Help does not currently work on Photoshop

 

ssh ftp

To access the ftp module of ssh, start ssh32 and choose:
Window, New File Transfer

 

Windows Media Player

When running up Windows Media Player for the first time, you will be presented with some configuration information. At this point accept the default options. This will only happen the first time you run up Media Player.

 

Networked CD-ROMs

The Chemical Abstracts database will not be available under Windows XP. To access this resource, use SciFinder Scholar instead. Please contact the Science Library for more information.