My six years old laptop shows its age more and more often this semester. Today, I reinstalled the operation system (Windows 7), with the hope that it will improve the speed a little bit. Needless to say, it is a really paiful task. I think I did not format the operation system disk for about three years now. During these three years, I installed a lot of softwares and I need to reinstall most of them by hand!
List of softwares
Here is the list of the softwares I installed today:
Research relevant:
- R: statistical software
- RStudio: IDE of R
- Github for Windows:
- Dropbox: sync files
- Evernote: take notes
- miketex: LaTex distribution
- Lyx: GUI of LaTex
- Zotero: reference manager
- Sublime Text: text editor
- Notepad++: text editor
- Foxit pdf reader: great pdf annotator
System relevent:
- 7zip: compress/extract files
- Everything: powerful file search engine
- DisplayFusion: Dual monitor assistant
- CCleaner: Windows sucks!
- Launchy: open program fastly
Others:
- Youdao: an English dictionary
- Google Pinyin 3.0: for its English writing assistant
- foobar2000: music player
Most of the above softwares I can find under Ubuntu, but the Foxit pdf reader, Evernote, Everything, Youdao and Google Pinyin 3.0 were missing! They are the main reason that I am still using Windows…
Environment variables
One thing I really hate with Windows is that I need to set up environment variables by hand if I want to get them recongnized in the commend line. Here are a list of changes in environment variables I made today.
- R:
R.home('bin')then add the returnC:\Program Files\R\bin. - Github: add
C:\Users\Li\AppData\Local\GitHub\PortableGit_...\bin. - LaTex: no need to, already added when install.
- Lyx: in
Lyx --> Tools --> Preference --> path:- PATH prefix, add R:
C:\Program Files\R\bin. - lyxServer pipe, add
\\.\pipe\lyxpipefor lyz of Zotero.
- PATH prefix, add R: