Category Archives: Software

Posts about software and software distribution at Williams College

Java Config file and excepted sites deployment

Posted on November 29, 2016 by

Some older Java-based websites are so out-of-date that Java refuses to run unless the web site is in the “excepted sites” list. This is normally a user-specific setting however you can set this up as a system wide exception list. … Continue reading →

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Windows 10 – Installing .Net 3.5 Framework

Posted on November 22, 2016 by

Only .NET 4.0 framework is included in Windows 10 by default. However, many applications still require the .NET 3.5 Framework so to enable/install this 3.5 Framework load your install DVD into the drive and give the following command at an … Continue reading →

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Windows 10 – Word could not create the work file error

Posted on November 1, 2016 by

After an upgrade to windows 10 LTSB 2016 “anniversary” edition MS word is giving the error: “Word could not create the work file. Check the temp environment variable” According to Microsoft this error occurs when Word doesn’t have permission to … Continue reading →

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Windows 10 – Windows To Go Enterprise Deployment Steps

Posted on July 19, 2016 by

Using a “Windows To Go” USB boot disk to provide course-specific windows programming environments Microsoft’s overview is at: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831833(v=ws.11).aspx In the Fall of 2016 – Williams will be piloting one computer science programming course using windows to go drives. In … Continue reading →

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Windows 10 – Update Blog

Posted on May 14, 2016 by

A pretty good blog of Windows 10 updates is at: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/05/10/announcing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-14342/#31Zq2yELkheC9HyV.99

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Windows 10 – Sideload windows store apps

Posted on April 15, 2016 by

On the lab/classroom image I need to disable the windows app store from allowing random individuals to install random apps. However, there may be a time when I need to install a windows app store app and, of course, there’s … Continue reading →

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Windows – Self-extracting installer with auto-install

Posted on April 8, 2016 by

With the application WinRar from: http://www.rarlab.com/ Select files, right click and select Add to Archive Use Browse.. to create the archive in the folder above Change Archive Format to Zip Enable Create Archive Format Select Advanced tab Select SFX Options … Continue reading →

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Adobe – Photoshop – crashes but not in remote login session

Posted on March 25, 2016 by

Found an issue where Photoshop would crash after loading but only when using the computer directly. If remoted into the computer Photoshop worked fine. That indicated a display driver issue. I tested at the local computer by putting the display … Continue reading →

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Software – Chrome for Work

Posted on March 21, 2016 by

Apparently, there is a different version of the Chrome browser for “enterprise” users. This one says it can be controlled by over 100 policies …. See more at: https://www.google.com/work/chrome/browser/https://www.google.com/work/chrome/browser/

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Mac – R – Where “packages” are stored

Posted on February 10, 2016 by

The software R is open source and people are adding packages constantly. On the Mac these live in the directory: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library More details see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2615128/where-does-r-store-packages

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