Staff Computer Setup

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Windows Settings

  • Install Futura typefaces (see below).
  • Automate Windows updates.
  • Show "My Computer" on the desktop.
  • Turn on "Quick Launch" toolbar next to the Start Menu and populate with the following shortcuts:
Show Desktop / Minimize All
Firefox (web browser)
Thunderbird (email)
Windows Explorer
Word
Excel

Windows Explorer

  • Show extensions for all files; show files in a list and apply settings to all folders.
  • Map appropriate network drives (see next) and setup shortcuts to network drives on the desktop.

Network Drive Setup

Standard

H: \\jupiter\homes
L: \\jupiter\administration
N: \\jupiter\forms_and_templates
Q: \\jupiter\publicity
R: \\jupiter\purchasing
S: \\jupiter\staff_folders
T: \\jupiter\travel_and_reimbursement
V: \\hera\nceas-web
W: \\jupiter\working_groups

Additional drives (by permission only)

M: \\jupiter\finance
O: \\jupiter\personnel
P: \\jupiter\proposals

Office Settings

MS Office

  • Replace %USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates\Normal.dot with PartDownloadMacro.dot (see Files section below) to add "PartList06" macro and autotext settings
  • Tools → Customize → Options
→ Show Standard and Formatting toolbars on two rows
→ Always show full menus
  • Install Acrobat after Office and enable Acrobat macros

Email

Thunderbird 2.0:

  • Do not show start page in message window at startup (Tools → Options → General → Thunderbird Start Page)
  • Check spelling before sending (Tools → Options → Composition → Spelling)
  • Add a signature (Tools → Account Settings → Attach this signature)
  • Add directory.ucsb.edu to the Address Book (Address Book → File → New → LDAP Directory )
    • Name: directory.ucsb.edu
    • Hostname: directory.ucsb.edu
    • Base DN: o=ucsb
    • Port number: 389
    • Bind DN: o=ucsb

Browser Settings

Firefox 2.0:

  • Import bookmarks (see below) and transfer old Personal Toolbar Folder contents to new Personal Toolbar Folder
  • Delete unnecessary links from bookmark list (i.e., included links such as Mozilla, news, etc)
  • Home page: NCEAS Administrative Database, NCEAS home page (Tools → Options → Main → Startup)
https://admindb.nceas.ucsb.edu/admin/db/dts.login | http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/
  • Restore Session (Tools → Options → Main → Startup → When Firefox starts: Show my windows and tabs from last time)
  • Download folder: Always ask me where to save files (Tools → Options → Main → Downloads)
  • Automatically close the 'Downloads' window when all downloads are finished (Tools → Options → Main → Downloads)
  • Do not hide tabs when only one is open (Tools → Options → Tabs → enable Always show the tab bar)
  • Look for new pages once per session (about:config → double click browser.cache.check_doc_frequency and change the value to 0)

Files

http://help.nceas.ucsb.edu/images/d/de/Futura_Fonts_PC_TT.zip
http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/~brand/wiki/PartDownloadMacro.dot
http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/~brand/wiki/bookmarks-generic.html

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