User Guide for App-V Background In order to provide better software service to staff and students, Information Services has implemented a new software provisioning system - Microsoft s Application Virtualization (or App-V for short). APP-V will meet more and more needs on software installation, updates and software uninstall on client PCs. In particular IT Services will centrally manage applications for all uses or particular groups without end user interruptions. What is App-V? App-V is a technology used to deliver software to computers running Windows XP, Vista and 7. App-V is used to deliver software direct to Windows computer systems that have the App-V Client installed without the need for Admin rights for installation. Software will appear under the Application Virtualization folder within your Start Menu as if it were installed locally. Launching software from within this folder will run the software independently of the Operating System, helping to keep the computer faster and free of unwanted system settings. Have I got the App-V Client? The App-V Client has been automatically installed on all the Information Services Campus computers silently. To check if you have the App-V client installed, look under Start\All Programs and check for the existence of the folder Application Virtualization. If the folder does not exist and you believe your machine should have this system installed then you can contact the IT Services (it-services@nottingham.edu.cn or int. 8009). (Windows XP)
(Windows Vista, 7) How do I use App-V? All App-V applications are listed under Start\All Programs\Application Virtualization and can be started like any other application by clicking the icon. There may be a slight delay when you first time launch the application, because it needs to download the software from a central server. When the application is loading a small progress dialogue will be displayed in the bottom right hand corner of the screen. As shown below: When running applications via APP-V it is worth noting that they will run from the Q: drive, instead of the usual C: drive. If you need to access files in the installation folder when
running the application such as example or demonstration files, they will be located in the Q: drive. You can access this within the application through a menu such as File > Open. What is available using App-V? The following software is currently published via App-V: 7-Zip: 7-Zip is a file archive tool with a high compression ratio. It is open source software. Most of the source code is under the GNU LGPL license. Supported formats: Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR Unpacking only: ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MSI, NSIS, RAR, RPM, UDF, WIM, XAR and Z. CAJViewer: This is proprietary software from China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) that allows you to view the full-text article. It acts similar to Adobe Acrobat Reader. Mozilla Firefox: FireFox is a web browser created by Mozilla, the original creators of the Netscape series of browsers. Version one was released in November 2004. It quickly gained new fans because of its open source license and multitude of features. Notepad++ This is a text editor and source code editor for Windows, though it can run on Linux and Mac OS X, using software such as Wine. The primary advantage of Notepad++ over the built-in text editor, Notepad, is tabbed editing, to easily work with multiple open files. VLC media player This is a free software media player and multimedia framework written by the VideoLAN project. VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to stream over networks and to transcode multimedia files and save them into various formats. Xming (For Computer Science Division)
Xming provides the X Window System display server, a set of traditional sample X applications and tools, and a set of fonts. It features support of several languages and has Mesa 3D, OpenGL, and GLX 3D graphics extensions capabilities. The Xming X server is based on the X.Org Server. It is cross-compiled on Linux with the MinGW compiler suite and the Pthreads-Win32 multi-threading library. Audacity Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and multilingual audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to: Record live audio. Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs. Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files. Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together. Change the speed or pitch of a recording. And more! See the complete list of features. FreeOCR FreeOCR is a Windows OCR program including the Windows compiled Tesseract free ocr engine. It includes a Windows installer and It is very simple to use and supports multipage tiff's, fax documents as well as most image types including compressed Tiff's which the Tesseract engine on its own cannot read.it now has Twain scanning. It can also open PDF's Free OCR uses the Tesseract OCR engine. Google Earth Offers maps and satellite images for complex or pinpointed regional searches.... Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean. You can explore rich geographical content, save your toured places, and share with others. IrfanView IrfanView is a very fast, compact and innovative FREEWARE image viewer/converter for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista. IrfanView is fast and small, with extremely low system resources requirements. It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals. PDF Annotator PDF Annotator lets the user open any PDF file and add annotations, using the mouse or a Tablet PC pen, directly on the PDF file's pages. The annotated documents can then be
saved directly back to PDF format. In this way, anyone can read or print the annotated PDF documents. Annotated documents can also be easily attached to emails. Stata IC 11 Stata is a complete, integrated statistical package that provides everything you need for data analysis, data management, and graphics. Skype Skype allows users to make voice and video calls and chats over the Internet. Calls to other users within the Skype service are free, while calls to both traditional landline telephones and mobile. StarLogo StarLogo is a programmable modeling environment for exploring the workings of decentralized systems -- systems that are organized without an organizer, coordinated without a coordinator. With StarLogo, you can model (and gain insights into) many real-life phenomena, such as bird flocks, traffic jams, ant colonies, and market economies.