While I agree in general with Daniel Beck's answer in that any question that can be reworded as a legitimate question can/should be kept open and even edited to be made on-topic, I don't agree that this specific question is on-topic.  Here's why:

This is a question that after initial review, I couldn't think of a way of editing this question to make it less about the [tag:software-rec] and more about an actual *computer related problem*.  The only way to keep this question somewhat related to Super User would be to keep it a software recommendation question, which is clearly off-topic for here.

In my opinion, this question would be better suited for [Chemistry.SE][1] as it's more about that topic than Super Users.  I checked their Meta, and [it appears that they have a slightly similar approach][2] as us for software-rec questions, thus IMO, making this question a valid question for them.

  [1]: http://chemistry.stackexchange.com/
  [2]: http://meta.chemistry.stackexchange.com/a/75/1752