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Installing extra applications for Windows 10

Misc notes

  • You don't have to install all the applications mentioned of this page. Just pick the ones you need
  • The listed applications are not in alphabetical order. They are sometimes grouped by similar usage
  • The applications will be installed by default on the C: disk. You may want to check the free space available on C: from time to time (remembering that you need space there for the system, system updates, what you store on your desktop, etc…)
    • Some installers will let you choose where you want to install the programs
  • Some applications can be installed directly from the Microsoft Store but you will have to download and execute the installer for most of the applications listed below
  • You are probably running the 64bit version of Windows 10, so download the 64bit version of the installers, if you have to choose!

Firefox and Thunderbird

Once you have installed FF and/or TB, you should follow the instructions for moving and restoring FF and TB. You should probably even read these before moving to a new computer, if you want to restore the FF and TB settings you had

Google Chrome

Install Chrome if you think that you may need an extra browser (besides the builtin Edge and the preinstalled Firefox) to test the content of some web pages or to use some videoconferencing software

Notepad++

Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages

Image (bitmap) editors

The editors listed below go from the simplest to the most powerful (but harder to use)

Snip & Sketch

French : Outil Capture d'écran

For simple screenshots and/or annotating images, you can launch the preinstalled Snip & Sketch (Capture d'écran et croquis) tool from the Start menu

  • Shortcut for taking a screenshot (and annotating it): Win + Shift + S
  • You can only annotate (and save) the screenshot you have just taken. You can't open (and annotate) an existing image file

Autodesk SketchBook

For freehand drawing (especially if you have a tablet or touch screen), you can use the preinstalled Autodesk SketchBook

XnView Classic

XnView Classic is an efficient image viewer, browser and converter for Windows. This software is really simple to use and totally free for personal use. It supports more than 500 image formats

Download page

Paint.net

Paint.NET is an image and photo editing software for PCs that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.

  • You can either download Paint.net for free (and choose to make a donation), or buy it from the Windows 10 store (the payment is the donation)

GIMP

GIMP is a cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, OS X, Windows and more operating systems. Whether you are a graphic designer, photographer, illustrator, or scientist, GIMP provides you with sophisticated tools to get your job done. You can further enhance your productivity with GIMP thanks to many customization options and 3rd party plugins.

  • Get this powerful image editor only if you need a free replacement of Adobe Photoshop and you have time to read tutorials! The image editors list above should be enough for your needs

Image (vector) editors

Dia

Dia is roughly inspired by the commercial Windows program 'Visio,' though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many other diagrams.

Inkscape

Inkscape is professional quality vector graphics software […] for creating a wide variety of graphics such as illustrations, icons, logos, diagrams, maps and web graphics.

Inkscape uses the W3C open standard SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) as its native format, and is free and open-source software. Inkscape has sophisticated drawing tools with capabilities comparable to Adobe Illustrator, CorelDRAW and Xara Xtreme. It can import and export various file formats, including SVG, AI, EPS, PDF, PS and PNG.

  • Inkscape can theoretically be used as a replacement of Adobe Illustrator
  • SVG (not ps/pdf) is the native format of Inkscape. If you know that you may have to alter/update a vector image later, you may want to save it in .svg format as well as .pdf, when possible.

Backup software

You probably think that just copying a folder from time to time with a drag 'n drop is enough, but this becomes difficult to manage when the folder size grows and you have several folders to manage

There are several types of backup (mirror, incremental or differential imaging, cloning, 2 way synchronization, etc…) of different sources (full disks, partitions, directories, …) to/from different destinations (external disk, cloud, …)

Our basic need is to mirror one source directory on a local disk to a destination directory on an external disk (check the users' manuals if you need more features). This can be easily done with SyncBack

  • Copy all the files of the source to the destination. All the files are copied on the first run, only the new/changed files are copied on subsequent runs.
  • Warning! if a file is not on the source anymore, mirroring will automatically remove it from the destination! The idea is that the destination should be an exact copy of the source! If that's not what you want, check the backup (rather than mirror) options.

Note: List of backup software (wikipedia)

SyncBack

You can use the SyncBack family of products to backup, synchronize, and restore data files.

The SyncBackFree version should be enough for easily mirroring directories, or groups of directory to an external disk, but you can compare the features available in SyncBackPro, SyncBackSE and SyncBackFree: summary comparison and full comparison.

It is very important to backup your work regularly. Check the Using SyncBack page for more details.

Macrium Reflect

Macrium Reflect is image based backup and cloning software. Macrium Reflect creates an accurate and reliable image of a hard disk or the partitions on the disk. In the event of a partial or complete system loss, you can use this image to restore the entire disk, one or more partitions, or even individual files and folders.

The Free Edition can be used for imaging or cloning a full disk

PuTTY & Pageant

PuTTY is a free implementation of SSH and Telnet for Windows and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator.

In other words, PuTTY is an easy to use ssh client for Windows that will allow you to connect to the LSCE servers with a very efficient text terminal

If you hare in a hurry and PuTTY is not installed yet, you can directly use the ssh provided with Windows 10!

  • Right click on the Start menu and select Powershell
  • Type ssh user@server
  • It is still useful to install Putty, because this will allow you to configure sessions, and then connect very easily to other computers later. And use efficient copy-paste!
  • If you have installed WSL+Ubuntu on Windows 10, you can just open a terminal and type ssh user@server to connect to the server

Read the Installing and configuring Putty page to learn the best way to use Putty (and VcXsrv if you have to display remote graphical windows)

You should probably also have a look at the understanding and using ssh correctly if you want to understand basic ssh options, and how PuTTY and VcXsrv interact

VcXsrv Windows X Server

Check the VcXrv installation and configuration section on the WSL+Ubuntu page

WinSCP

WinSCP is a popular SFTP client and FTP client for Microsoft Windows! Copy file between a local computer and remote servers using FTP, FTPS, SCP, SFTP, WebDAV or S3 file transfer protocols.

  • WinSCP will automatically use the private ssh key stored in Pageant (installed with Putty) for authentication, if Pageant is running
  • You can use WinSCP to transfer files between your computer and ssh1 when you are outside LSCE.
  • If you have installed WSL+Ubuntu, you can directly use scp from a terminal!

Zotero

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research

ownCloud

ownCloud Desktop Client enables you to connect folders on your desktop to your corporate ownCloud Server. With it you can create folders, organize your local ownCloud directory, and keep the contents of your local directory synced with your ownCloud server. Anything shared with you will also appear in your home directory on your desktop, and changes will be automatically synced.

ownCloud is compatible with:

VLC media player

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

7-Zip

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

Supported formats:

  • Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM
  • Unpacking only: AR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DMG, EXT, FAT, GPT, HFS, IHEX, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, QCOW2, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, UEFI, VDI, VHD, VMDK, WIM, XAR and Z.

Python

Depending on which kind of data, you can install a Python distribution either directly in Windows, or in the Linux section (WSL + Ubuntu or some other Linux flavor) of the computer

CDAT

CDAT is a Python distribution for the climate scientist. It can only be installed in the WSL+Ubuntu part of a Win10 computer. Check the installation instructions for 8.1 (or later)

Anaconda

The Anaconda Python distribution can be installed either directly in Win10, or in the WSL+Ubuntu part of Win10. CDAT (above) uses Anaconda for its installation

Canopy

The Enthought Canopy Python distribution can be installed either directly in Win10, or in the WSL+Ubuntu part of Win10.

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

Check the WSL page if you want to run Ubuntu (or another Linux) on your Win10 computer!!

More applications

Samsung phone users

Smart Switch

Samsung Smart Switch seamlessly transfers contacts, photos, music, videos, messages, notes, calendars and more to virtually any Samsung Galaxy device.

  • Can be used for backing up your phone

SideSync

SideSync is a new PC-Mobile solution that enables screens, windows, and data to be shared easily. Share between a PC and a Galaxy smartphone, or between a Galaxy Tab and Galaxy smartphone

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