WTF? Setting up new Win10 - where is the standard calculator?

On 08/25/2018 7:13 PM, Louis Fabron wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote:

I am going to venture a guess, That little 2 seems to indicate that that
is the second copy, one copy is already installed.

Thank you for that guess.
I searched but it is hard to search because common words are searched.

I do not think it means two are installed though because even when it did
not work before I installed the winaeoro calc it still said calculator^2
https://image.ibb.co/eefpoU/Clipboard03.jpg

When I tried to install the Windows 10 calcultora it still said 2.
https://image.ibb.co/fq4kCp/Clipboard07.jpg

After I installed winaeor calcultor it still said 2.
https://image.ibb.co/nMhmk9/Clipboard08.jpg

Both before and after winaeor it still say "calculator^2".


Yep, bad guess on my part, just looked in the store and that is its full
title, calculator2, there is also a calculator one and a bunch more.

Rene

Rene Lamontagne wrote:

Yep, bad guess on my part, just looked in the store and that is its full
title, calculator2, there is also a calculator one and a bunch more.

Thank you for that lookup.
I did not even think it was the name of the calculator!

I thought it meant something.
If it is just the name of the app, then everyone should get that same 2.

But it is not in the picture that the good guy showed?
https://i.imgur.com/2kInLun.png

So it is confused to me.!!!??!!!???!!!

On 8/25/2018 8:13 PM, Louis Fabron wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote:

I am going to venture a guess, That little 2 seems to indicate that that
is the second copy, one copy is already installed.

Thank you for that guess.
I searched but it is hard to search because common words are searched.

I do not think it means two are installed though because even when it did
not work before I installed the winaeoro calc it still said calculator^2
https://image.ibb.co/eefpoU/Clipboard03.jpg

When I tried to install the Windows 10 calcultora it still said 2.
https://image.ibb.co/fq4kCp/Clipboard07.jpg

After I installed winaeor calcultor it still said 2.
https://image.ibb.co/nMhmk9/Clipboard08.jpg

Both before and after winaeor it still say "calculator^2".

I am going to venture a guess at your problem.

Go to the Control Panel, Programs, "Uninstall a program", and delete all
calculator programs that are shown as being installed.

It is possible that one of the calculators that you install became the
default and is masking the native windows Calculator.

It I am correct, once the last one is uninstalled and you do a reboot,
you should get the native calculator when you do a search on Calculator.

I am theorizing that it is working like Windows Defender when you
install McAfee. When McAfee is installed Windows Defender sort of drops
out of the system. When you uninstall McAfee it comes back with out any
input on your part and takes over the virus checking function.


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I think you all forgot tht you installed it manually at some point.

Some sort of mass amnesia? Nope, it is there by default on the start
menu.


I have 2 calc.exe's as follows

C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-windows-calc_31bf3856ad364e35_
10.0.17134.1_none_8f3e8d9283e65de7\calc.exe

and

C:\Windows\WinSxS\wow64_microsoft-windows-calc_31bf3856ad364e35_
10.0.17134.1_none_999337e4b8471fe2\calc.exe

Louis Fabron wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote:

Yep, bad guess on my part, just looked in the store and that is its full
title, calculator2, there is also a calculator one and a bunch more.

Thank you for that lookup.
I did not even think it was the name of the calculator!

I thought it meant something.
If it is just the name of the app, then everyone should get that same 2.

But it is not in the picture that the good guy showed?
https://i.imgur.com/2kInLun.png

So it is confused to me.!!!??!!!???!!!

Two items in the Store can't have the same name.

Microsoft made one calculator application.

Whereas Calculator^2 was made by a private developer.
It's a freemium application, with the possibility of
in-app purchases.

I'm not a fan of these giant calculators. When I'm in
the mood to calculate, I "borrow" a win32 calc.exe from
an older copy of Windows.

*******

In Win10, you could also use the Bash shell, and try
your hand at command line "bc". If you're on some other
Windows, you can use this version.

https://cytranet.dl.sourceforge.net/...1.06-2-bin.zip

bc.exe
dc.exe

https://managedway.dl.sourceforge.ne...1.06-2-dep.zip

readlines.dll # In same folder as above two.

https://svwh.dl.sourceforge.net/proj...1.06-2-doc.zip

bc.pdf # user manual

In Command Prompt

cd /d C:/path/to/three/files/above

bc.exe -l # The minus L indicates "include trig library etc"

scale=40 # Sets number of digits of output
5*7/3 # Do a calc...

11.6666666666666666666666666666666666666666

control-D # end of input

You can calculate PI to a million digits with that if you want.
But this is slower than SuperPI would be.

bc.exe -l
scale=1000 # start small, avoid trouble, double size, retest
4*a(1) # four times arctan of 1 is PI.

Paul

On 25 Aug 2018, Louis Fabron wrote in
alt.comp.freewa

I think you all forgot tht you installed it manually at some
point. Because the Windows 10 calculator does not seem to be in
the default.

No, I did not. / Yes it is.

Most of you I think are using the Windows 10 Store Calculator.

I am, because it comes installed by default.

Paul wrote:

Whereas Calculator^2 was made by a private developer.

Thank you for solving that question of the calculator^2.

I'm not a fan of these giant calculators. When I'm in
the mood to calculate, I "borrow" a win32 calc.exe from
an older copy of Windows.

That is what I'm doing now with the Winaero Win8 calculatrice.

Louis Fabron wrote:

it's just not there by default in a new installation.

It might not have been in yours for whatever reason, but it is in all my
Win10 installs, and most other people's too ...

On 8/26/2018 5:39 AM, Louis Fabron wrote:
WTF?
https://image.ibb.co/cCJ9oU/Clipboard01.jpg

C:\Windows\System32\calc.exe
You'll need a new app to open this calculator


No problem starting the program, and I am using Win 10 build 1803
version 17134.228!

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On 26/08/2018 14:01, slate_leeper wrote:
The "standard" calculator has very poor reviews, and did not work at
all on my machine either. I

But you are a complete idiot who can't even know how to switch on a
desktop machine.

Calculator works if, and only if, you switch on the computer. Otherwise
it won't work but you are too stupid to know this.

This guy Fabron is our resident Pedo using 5,000 VPN addresses to ask
silly questions.




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The "standard" calculator has very poor reviews, and did not work at
all on my machine either. I found one called Moffsoft FreeCalc which
works just fine. The calculator button on my keyboard doesn't find it.
I just put an icon on the desktop for it.

Depending your keyboard, it should be easy enough to change what the
calculator button is opening. I have a MS Sidewinder x4 keyboard, and it
took hardly any time at all to change to the calculator I like (FreeCalc,
same as you). Besides the look of it, I like that you can set it to be
"always on top". I hate it when I have a couple large windows open, and when
I press the Calculator key, the MS one would invariably always be behind
them.
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On Sat, 25 Aug 2018 22:22:48 +0000 (UTC), in alt.comp.os.windows-10,
Louis Fabron wrote:

I think all of you forgot that you had to install it once.

This has got to be a troll.

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