The current operating system on MCS machines is Windows®10. This page was last updated 5 October 2020.
Please note that the move to Windows 10 has meant that the category menu structure that was available under Windows 7 has disappeared. Some applications will be listed by their application name while others will be listed under the manufacturer name.
If you know the application name then please use the Find field. We have kept the menu structure on these web pages but also included the name under which you will find it. eg Sibelius is Music but listed under company name of Avid.
Many applications are available at all sites; however, a few teaching applications are site-specific, and some are available at UIS sites, but not at all managed cluster sites. Availability at a site is dependent on licence arrangements. Site codes are used where there is restricted availability of an application.
[1] UIS pool of licences floated across all cluster sites
[2] Licensed by individual institutions
[3] Limited availability - UIS rooms and cluster sites on request
[4] Stem Departments: CH, CL, MA, ML, PH
The menu structure layout is similar to standard Microsoft® menu - our main menu is found under All Programs.
Other menu items may be visible such as Adobe applications and SMART Technologies when hardware is detected.
Accessories
All applications under this menu heading are part of the Windows OS.
| Application | MCS Folder | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Calculator | ||
| Calculator Plus | Microsoft > | |
| Character Map | Windows Accessories > | |
| Command Prompt | Windows System > | |
| Connect to a Nearest Printer | ||
| Cortana | Online Help | |
| Get Help | Microsoft Help | |
| Maps | Windows Maps | |
| Math Input Panel | Windows Accessories > | |
| McAfee Endpoint Security | On-access Scan, On-Demand Scan, Virus Scan Console | |
| Media Center | ||
| Notepad | Window Accessories > | |
| Notepad++ | Windows Accessories > | |
| Paint 3D | Create and paint 3D objects | |
| Remote Desktop Connection | Windows Accessories > | Connect to another computer |
| Snipping Tool | Windows Accessories > | |
| Steps Recorder | Windows Accessories > | |
| Sticky Notes | ||
| Text Size Changer | Windows Accessories | |
| Windows DVD Maker | ||
| Windows Fax and Scan | Windows Accessories > | |
| WordPad | Windows Accessories > | |
| System Tools > | Windows Adminitrative Tools > | Character Map, Disk Cleanup, Disk Defragmenter, Internet Explorer (no-add-ons) Resource Monitor, System Information, System Restore, Task Scheduler, Windows Easy Transfer Reports, Windows Easy Transfer |
| Windows PowerShell | Windows PowerShell > | Windows PowerShell including x86, ISE and ISE (x86) versions |
| Zoomit | Windows Accessories > |
Account Management
| Application | Version | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| DS-Filestore Quota | ||
| DS-Print Balance | ||
| DS-Print eCredit | ||
| Manage Password |
MCS Help
Webpage with links to the most common queries regarding use of the MCS.
All applications within each menu category below are listed alphabetically. Directories are found at the end of the menu and indicated by ">".
Assistive Technology
| Application | MCS Folder | Version | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anki | Anki > | 2.1.18 |
Create your own flash cards to help memorise information |
| Built-in Ease of Access tools | Windows Ease of Access > |
Magnifier, Narrator, On-screen keyboard, Windows speech recognition |
|
| MindView | MatchWare > | 6 |
Mind Mapping software |
| Natural Reader | Natural Reader > | 15 |
Text to Speech Reader. Also available as an online reader. |
| TextHelp Read & Write | TextHelp > | 11 |
[1], deployed to nominated PCs in institutions on request. |
| Workrave | Workrave > | 1.10 |
Time management app that assists in the recovery and prevention of Repetitive Strain Injury. |
| ATBar for Windows | ATBar > | 1.0.0.0 |
Text to Speech Reader which supports colour overlay. Also available as an Open-source cross-browser toolbar to help users customise the way they view and interact with webpages. |
| Microsoft TellMe | Microsoft > Office applications suite eg: Office Excel | 2016 |
Microsoft TellMe is built into the Microsoft Office applications suite which allows you to undertake quick tasks within the Microsoft Office applications suite. |
| Windows Voice Recorder | Voice Recorder | 10.0.17134.376 |
Record sounds, lectures, interviews and other events. Mark key moments as you record, edit or play them back. |
Database Packages
| Application | MCS Folder | Version | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Access | Microsoft > | 2016 | |
| ArcGIS | ESRI > | 10.5.1 | [2], ArcGIS Globe, ArcGIS Map, ArcGIS ArcScene; OS MasterMap Modules [3], AR, ED, ENG, GE, LE; available at Colleges on request |
| AutoCad | 2018 | AutoDesk > | AutoCAD 2018, AutoCad Map 3D & Help, AutoDesk Recap, Batch Standards Checker, Reference Manager & other modules |
| EndNote | Thomson Reuters > | X8 | [1]; EndNote Help |
| LibreOffice Base | LibreOffice > | 6.1.0.3 | |
| Mendeley Desktop | Mendeley > | 1.19.2 | Reference manager |
| QGis | QGIS > | 2.18.24 | GRASS GIS 7.4.1; QGIS Desktop; QT Designer; SAGA GIS |
| Zotero | Zotero > | 4.0.29 | Install Firefox and Word Plugin (v5.0.55), Standalone |
Email and Messaging
| Application | MCS Folder | Version | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exchange Online Webmail | |||
| Hermes Webmail | University email | ||
| Thunderbird | Mozilla > | 60.0 |
Graphics and Presentation
| Application | MCS Folder | Version | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe Connect | Adobe | 201_7_10 | |
| Blender | Blender > | 2.49b | |
| CorelDraw Graphics | CorelDRAW > | X6 | [1] Corel CAPTURE, PHOTO-PAINT, Duplexing Wizard, Video Tutorials |
| Drishti | Drishti > | 2.6.1. & 2.6.3 | for visualising tomography & electron-microscopy data, Drishti Import; Drishti Paint |
| FastStone | FastStone > | 3.6 | Faststone Help, Image Viewer & Image Viewer Help, Photo Resizer |
| GIMP 2 | GIMP > | 2.10.10 | GNU Image Manipulation Program |
| Google Earth Pro | Google > | 7.1.5 | |
| Google SketchUp | Google > | 8 | |
| Illustrator | Adobe > | 2019 | [2], AR, CC, GE, GT & PHX TR2 |
| ImageJ | ImageJ > | 1.52r | |
| Inkscape | Inkscape > | 0.48.3.1 | |
| LEGO Digital Design | LEGO Company > | 4.3 | LEGO Digital Designer, LEGO Digital Designer Manual, LEGO Digital Designer Read Me |
| LibreOffice Draw | LibreOffice > | 6.1.0.3 | |
| LibreOffice Impress | LibreOffice > | 6.1.0.3 | |
| LTspice | XVII | ||
| Movie Maker | Microsoft > | 2016 | |
| Omero | Omero > | 5.2.4 | AR, Microscope images supported |
| Origin | 2020 | ||
| Origin Viewer | 2020 | ||
| Paint.Net | Paint.NET > | 4.0.1 | |
| Photoshop | Adobe > | 2019 | Phx TR2 |
| PowerPoint | Microsoft > | 2016 | |
| Subtitle Workshop | Subtitle Workshop > | 6.0b | |
| Visio | Microsoft > | 2016 | Requires institutional licence - on demand |
Multimedia and Music
| Application | MCS Folder | Version | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aegisub | Aegisub > | 3.2.2 | Editor for timing subtitles to audio; ASSDRAW 3; |
| Audacity | Audacity > | 2.2.2 | Audio editor and recording |
| AudioScore Lite | Avid > | Part of Sibelius Ultimate | |
| Avidemux | Avidemux > | 2.6.21 | Avidemux Job Control, AVS Proxy GUI 2.6; alternative to MovieMaker |
| ForeVid | ForeVid > | Allows forensics analysis | |
| iTunes | |||
| MuseScore | MuseScore > | 2.3.1 | |
| OBS Studio | OSB Studio > | 21.1.2 | 32-bit & 64-bit versions available |
| PhotoScore NoteMe Lite | Avid > | Part of Sibelius Ultimate | |
| Sibelius | Avid > | 8 Ultimate | UIS Teaching Rooms, Music, Colleges |
| VLC Media Player | |||
| Windows Media Player | Windows Accessories > | ||
Network Tools
| Application | MCS Folder | Version | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cisco | Cisco > | UIS Teaching Rooms, Jabber [3] | |
| NX Client | NX Client > | 3.5.0-9 | NX Client, NX Connection Wizard, NX Session Administrator |
| Pageant | PuTTY > | Key holder for PuTTy | |
| PuTTY (Secure Telnet) to Hermes | PuTTY > | ||
| PuTTY (Secure Telnet) to Remote MCS Linux Server | PuTTY > | ||
| PuTTY (Secure Telnet> | PuTTY > | 0.60 | Telnet client with ssh |
Programming and Scripting
| Application | MCS Folder | Version | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eclipse | Eclipse > | 3.+ | Eclipse IDE, Eclipse SDK |
| Git | Git > | 1.7.10 | includes Git Bash, Git GUI |
| HyperSpy | HyperSpy > | 0.8.2 | HyperSpy Notebook, HyperSpy Qt Console, HyperSpy |
| Jet Brains | 2016 | ||
| MySQL | MySQL > | UIS Teaching Rooms rooms only | |
| node.js | 4.0.0 | runtime environment for developing server-side web applications | |
| Notepad++ | windows Accessories > | 6.6.8+ | |
| Octave | Octave > | 3.8.1 | Octave, Octave-GUI (beta), Octave Readme |
| Perl | Perl > | 5.18.2 | |
| PolyML | PolyML > | ||
| Python | Anaconda > | 2.7 & 3.6 | Python 2.7 & 3.6 Cloud; 2.7 & 3.6 iPython; 2.7 & 3.6 Jupyter Console; Navigator, Prompt; Spyder 2.7 & 3.6, Reset Spyder settings |
| Visual Studio | Microsoft > | 2017 | Instiutional licensing needed to deploy on demand |
Spreadsheets, Maths and Statistics
| Application | MCS Folder | Version | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMOS | IBM > | 25 | [1], File manager, Graphics, Language, Program Editor, Seed Manager, Text Output, View Data; use with SPSS |
| Comprehensive Meta Analysis | Biostat | 2 | [3], TTR 1 & 2Available at sites on request |
| DARwin | DARwin > | 6.0.614 | Dissimilarity Analysis |
| Eviews | IHS > | 10 | [2], EC, [3], available at colleges on request |
| Excel | Microsoft > | 2016 | |
| GeoGebra | 4.2 | ||
| Gnuplot | gnuplot > | 4.7.0 | gnuplot console, gnuplot |
| JAGS | JAGS | 4.3.0 | program for analysing Bayesian hierarchical models |
| JASP | JASP > | 0.8.1.2 | graphical program for statistical analysis |
| LibreOffice Calc | LibreOffice > | 6.1.0.3 | |
| LibreOffice Math | LibreOffice > | 6.1.0.3 | |
| Mathematica | Wolfram > | 12 | [1], available in colleges & CS Rooms; [2], CH,CL,EC,GE,MA,PH; Mathematica II Kernal, Mathematica, Wolfram Workbench |
| MatLab | R2020a | [1] colleges & UIS Teaching Rooms; [3], CL, EC, GE, MA | |
| Scapetoad | Choros > | 1.1 | |
| R Statistical Data Analysis | R > | 3.5.1 | |
| R Studio | R > | 3.5.1 | |
| SPSS | IBM > | 25 | [1], SPSS 24 Statistics, SPSS SmartViewer 15 |
| Stata IC | 15.1 | [1] | |
| Stata MP | 16 | Available at School of HSS MCS rooms | |
| WinBUGS | WinBUGS > | 1.4.3 |
Teaching Packages
Most of these applications are supported by the institution for whose use they are provided and may be available at specific sites only; or are freely available across the MCS; (see site codes at the bottom of this page). ">" indicates a directory heading.
Please Note:The Department > Application(s) directory structure is being deprecated. The folder name is annotated with > and given in bold where it differs from application name.
| Institution | Comments |
|---|---|
| Archaeology | GDAL > GDAL Tools, Mapserver Tools; MEGA-X, Network 5; OxCal > OxCal, Tree > Beast2, Densitree, FigTree, Tracer |
| Biological Anthropology | FLIR Systems > FLIRTools; Morphj > MorphoJ, Morphologika > Morphologika, Pajek > Pajek, PajekXXL; Past > Past. |
| Catam | Mathworks > MatLab R2016a, R > R Statistical Data Analysis 3.3.1 |
| Chemical Engineering &Biotechnology | Icy > Icy |
| Chemistry | Avogardo; Perkin Elmer > ChemOffice Pro 18.2; CCDC > Cambridge Structural Database; HyperCube > Hyperchem 8.0 & manual; |
| Classics | Diogenes > Diogenes 3.1 - not all the databases will be available |
| Computer Science & Technology | Microsoft > Project 2016, Visual Studio 2016, Visio 2016, Prolog > Prolog |
| Economics | IHS > Eviews; StataMP, OxMetrics 7 |
| Education > | Alice, BlockCAD, GPower, Scratch, Whiteboard Active modules; Geogebra; Nvivo 12; Zotero > Install Firefox and Word Plugin; Standalone version) |
| Engineering > | CES EduPack 2019; Linear >LTspice; PTC > Creo modules |
| English | Literature & Latte > Scrivener |
| Geography > | Pisces > CAP 4 & manual, ECOM II & manual, ImageJ, Introduction to Multivariate Statistics, MultiSpec, OpenGeoDa, SaTScan, Species Diversity & Richness, Blender > Blender, Harris > ENVI 4.3 (with IDL 6.3.)> iTools >, Hexagon > ERDAS Imagine 2016, Choros > ScapeToad 1.1, Northwestern CCL > 3D Netlogo 6.0.4, Netlogo 6.0.4. |
| SSRMC > | Biostat > Comprehensive Meta Analysis |
| MML > | Cert in Computing > Online Resources in French, German > Italian; Linguistics > CorpusSearch, Praat, WordNet 2.1, WordNet 3.0 (online), British National Corpus, Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English; Spanish > |
| Vet School > | VE only |
| Zoology | R > R Statistical Data Analysis 3.5.1 |
Utilities
| Application | MCS Folder | Version | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7-Zip | 7Zip > | 9.2 | |
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller | Adobe > | X | create PDFs |
| Adobe Acrobat Pro | Adobe > | X | [2], PHX 2 - edit PDFs |
| Acrobat Reader DC | Adobe > | X | open and read a PDF |
| Cygwin | 2 | Terminal, XWin Server | |
| DOSBox | |||
| Dropbox | Dropbox > | Dropbox Business - University, Dropbox | |
| DS-Filestore Quota | Account Management > | Check filespace usage | |
| DS-Print Balance | Account Management > | Check your print balance | |
| DS-Print eCredit | Account Management > | Add credit for printing | |
| Ghostscript | Ghostscript > | ||
| Office Language Preferences | 2016 | [2] | |
| OneDrive | Microsoft > | 2016 | OneDrive File View, OneDrive How to use on MCS Windows, OneDrive Web View |
| OneNote | Microsoft > | 2016 | [2] |
Web Browsing
| Application | MCS Folder | Version | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe Reader DC | Adobe > | 11.0.08 | PDF viewer |
| Cambridge University on iTunesU | |||
| Firefox | Mozilla > | 61.0.2 | |
| Google Chrome | Google > | 44 | |
| Internet Explorer | 11 | ||
| Library Catalogue (Newton) | Library > | URL to University Library Catalogue | |
| Library Home Page | Library > | URL to University Library | |
| Reaxys | Reaxys > |
Web Design
| Application | MCS Folder | Version | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dreamweaver | Adobe > | 2019 | [2], HTML tool |
| Webstorm | JetBrains > | IDE fr Java script, CSS & HTML |
Word and Text Processing
| Application | MCS Folder | Version | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller DC | Adobe > | X | [1], create and edit PDFs |
| Aegisub | Aegisub > | 3.2.2 | editor for timing subtitles to audio; ASSDraw 3; |
| Atlas_ti | Atlas.ti > | 8.4.20 | [1] |
| Colemak Keyboard | Colemak > | Exit using toolbar icon | |
| EMACS | EMACS > | 24.3.1 | EMACS - GUI mode, EMACS - tty mode |
| EndNote | Thomson Reuters > | X8 | [1], EndNote Help |
| gedit | Gedit > | 2.30.2 | |
| gVim | Softonic > | 7 | |
| InDesign | Adobe > | 2019 | [2], UIS PHXTR 2 |
| Juxta | Juxta > | ||
| Language Preferences | Microsoft > | ||
| LibreOffice Writer | LibreOffice > | 6.1.0.3 | |
| Nvivo | 12 | [1] | |
| On-screen Keyboard | Windows Ease of Access > | ||
| Publisher | Microsoft | 2016 | |
| Word | Microsoft > | 2016 | |
| Tex and LaTeX | TeX and LaTeX > | including LyX 2.2.0, TeXLive 2016 modules, Texmaker, TeXnicCenter, TeXstudio 2.11.0, |
Peripheral Hardware Packages
The menu is created dynamically on a workstation if peripheral hardware such as a scanner or smartboard is detected.
| Application | Version | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Epson Scan | ||
| Epson V500 Scanner Software | ||
| Smart Notebook | v11 |
Browser Plugins
The following browser plugins are available:
| Application | Version | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Adobe Flash Player | 18.0 | Firefox, IE |
| Chem3D | 4.0 | CH |
| ChemDraw | 6.0 | CH |
| Citrix ICA Client | 10.200 | Firefox |
| iTunes Application Detector | 1.0.1.1 | Firefox |
| Java | 6.23 | Firefox, IE |
| Java Development Toolkit | 6.0.230.5 | FireFox, IE |
| RealPlayer (TM) | 12.0.1.609 | Firefox, IE |
| SciFinder Application | 1.0.0.1 | Firefox |
| SciFinder Scholar | 4.0.3116 | IE |
| Scorch | 6.2.0.88 | Firefox, used with Sibelius |
| Shockwave Player | 11 | |
| Windows Media Player | 11.0.572 | Firefox, IE |
Site Codes
AR Department of Archaeology
CC Clare College
CH Department of Chemistry
ED Faculty of Education
EN Department of Engineering
GE Department of Geography
GT Gates Trust
MA Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
MML Modern and Medieval Languages
VE Vet School
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