In-house OICE users will mostly work with devices controlled by computers running a version of Microsoft Windows, currently mostly Windows 7. This might, however, change in the future to devices running other operating systems.

After starting up a microscope control PC running Windows, users will get the option to login with their central OICE account by pressing ALT-CTRL-Delete and typing in their username and password as usual. If another user is still logged on or was using the device without rebooting the PC, you have to click on “Other user” before typing your credentials.

Windows users will be presented with two automatically configured network shares to store their data. The first share (H:\) carries the user's login name and can be used to save data that should not be automatically uploaded to the OMERO.server, e.g. analysis results, source code, etc. The second share (X:\) is the OMERO-DropBox share, and files being saved there will - if the format is recognized - be automatically uploaded to the OMERO.server. For further information on the DropBox feature, please follow this link.