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Old August 25th 18, 10:39 PM posted to alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Louis Fabron
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Default WTF? Setting up new Win10 - where is the standard calculator?

WTF?
https://image.ibb.co/cCJ9oU/Clipboard01.jpg

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

Do I have to ADD a calculator to Windows 10?

If I have to add a calculator to Windows 10, what free basic big-button
(for tired old eyes) old-style calculator do you use when you don't want to
have anything whatsoever to do with whatever it is that is the "Windows
Store"?
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Old August 25th 18, 10:51 PM posted to alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default WTF? Setting up new Win10 - where is the standard calculator?

On 25 Aug 2018, Louis Fabron wrote in
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WTF?
https://image.ibb.co/cCJ9oU/Clipboard01.jpg

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

Do I have to ADD a calculator to Windows 10?


Mine came with the Calculator app already installed by default.
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Old August 25th 18, 10:52 PM posted to alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default WTF? Setting up new Win10 - where is the standard calculator?

On 08/25/2018 4:39 PM, 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

Do I have to ADD a calculator to Windows 10?

If I have to add a calculator to Windows 10, what free basic big-button
(for tired old eyes) old-style calculator do you use when you don't want to
have anything whatsoever to do with whatever it is that is the "Windows
Store"?


My windows 10 has calculator in menu under c, it should be standard in
yours also.

Rene

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Old August 25th 18, 10:55 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default WTF? Setting up new Win10 - where is the standard calculator?

On 25/08/2018 22:39, Louis Fabron wrote:

Do I have to ADD a calculator to Windows 10?


No you need some intelligence to use Windows 10.

Windows 10 users can find almost anything in their machine if they start
using the Microsoft's Bing Search Engine that is situated on all Task
bars. For example if you had some intelligence, you would have found this:



https://i.imgur.com/2kInLun.png https://i.imgur.com/2kInLun.png



You must be a very old man suffering from dementia. How long have you
got to live? Has your doctor given you a hint?

In future please refrain from cross-posting to useless newsgroups. You
are only confirming your stupidity by doing so.

Windows 10 questions on Windows 10 newsgroup. It doesn't require much
intelligence to know this.

French Frog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1




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Old August 25th 18, 11:10 PM posted to alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default WTF? Setting up new Win10 - where is the standard calculator?

On Sat, 25 Aug 2018 21:39:06 +0000 (UTC), Louis Fabron
wrote:

WTF?
https://image.ibb.co/cCJ9oU/Clipboard01.jpg

C:\Windows\System32\calc.exe


CALC.exe works fine on my PC. Some details:

Size - 27,648 bytes
Date - 2018-04-12
MD5 - AFAF2CDF9981342C494B28630608F74A

Additional file hashes in calc.exe Properties


You'll need a new app to open this calculator


Maybe you need a later version of calc.exe.

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Old August 25th 18, 11:22 PM posted to alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Louis Fabron
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Default WTF? Setting up new Win10 - where is the standard calculator?

Monty wrote:

You'll need a new app to open this calculator


Maybe you need a later version of calc.exe.


Thank you for this information.
I think all of you forgot that you had to install it once.

Since it's just not there by default in a new installation.
https://preview.ibb.co/m5A3hp/Clipboard02.jpg

Since all of you installed it but you forgot how you did that you probably
did what Microsoft says to do which is to install it from the Windows
Store.

But I don't really even know what the Windows Store is and I don't like the
idea of a Windows Store either. It sounds too much like an Apple iTunes
Store or a Google Play Store to me.

Isn't there anyone who remembers how they installed the default calculator?
(It isn't there by default - so you HAD to install something.)

What's a good NOT from the Windows Store free calculator for Windows 10?
(Just big buttons and basic stuff.)
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Old August 25th 18, 11:25 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default WTF? Setting up new Win10 - where is the standard calculator?

On Sat, 25 Aug 2018 21:39:06 +0000 (UTC), 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

Do I have to ADD a calculator to Windows 10?



In Windows 10 the standard calculator (Calculator.exe) is an "app", and is
in the folder C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.WindowsCalculator_*
(where the * represents a string of numbers and letters).

The program you are looking at (calc.exe) just launches the real calculator
(the Calculator.exe app).

The Windows 10 Calculator app is added automatically. You should not have
needed to do anything to add it.

It seems as if your Calculator app is missing or corrupt.


If I have to add a calculator to Windows 10, what free basic big-button
(for tired old eyes) old-style calculator do you use when you don't want to
have anything whatsoever to do with whatever it is that is the "Windows
Store"?


Have you blocked Windows from installing any "apps" at all? That would
explain why you don't have the Calculator app. (More and more Windows 10
accessories will become like this.)

If the standard Calculator app was not installed automatically, you could
install it for free from the Microsoft store.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/windows-calculator/9wzdncrfhvn5


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Old August 25th 18, 11:42 PM posted to alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Louis Fabron
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Default WTF? Setting up new Win10 - where is the standard calculator?

Nil wrote:

Do I have to ADD a calculator to Windows 10?


Mine came with the Calculator app already installed by default.


Thank you for this information.

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.

This is what it says when you run a search for "calculator".
https://image.ibb.co/eefpoU/Clipboard03.jpg

It's important to notice that a search does not say this expection:
https://i.imgur.com/2kInLun.png

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

If you are not using the Windows 10 Store Calculator then what basic
Windows Calculator do you recommend that is fast and has big buttons?

I'm going to install this calculator for now but if you have better?
Winaero Old calculator for Windows 10
https://winaero.com/blog/classic-cal...s-10-creators/
https://winaero.com/download.php?view.1795

Get the old Calculator app from Windows 8 or Windows 7 in Windows 10. It is
the genuine classic Calculator app extracted from Windows 8.1, with full
localization support. It will be always in your OS language. It supports
both Windows 10 x86 and Windows 10 x64.

https://winaero.com/request.php?1795

Technically this may not be freeware since it is repackage of Windows calc.
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Old August 26th 18, 12:07 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.freeware
Louis Fabron
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Default WTF? Setting up new Win10 - where is the standard calculator?

Ralph Fox wrote:

In Windows 10 the standard calculator (Calculator.exe) is an "app", and is
in the folder C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.WindowsCalculator_*
(where the * represents a string of numbers and letters).

The program you are looking at (calc.exe) just launches the real calculator
(the Calculator.exe app).


Thank you for this information which first gaved me the error
"You have been denied permission to access this folder"
https://image.ibb.co/ita3hp/Clipboard04.jpg

I click "Advanced" and it won't let me pick me in the "object picker"
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/pre...789205(v=ws.11)

What do I need to do as I am the only user so I should be "administrator"
with privileges.
https://image.ibb.co/j8YOhp/Clipboard05.jpg

The Windows 10 Calculator app is added automatically. You should not have
needed to do anything to add it.

It seems as if your Calculator app is missing or corrupt.


Must be. But I cannot get deeper than this Windows 10 "object picker".
https://image.ibb.co/j8YOhp/Clipboard05.jpg

Have you blocked Windows from installing any "apps" at all? That would
explain why you don't have the Calculator app. (More and more Windows 10
accessories will become like this.)'


Good question. Maybe. I don't know. I don't like Windows Store idea if it
is like Google Play store idea or Apple iTunes Store idea. So maybe.

If the standard Calculator app was not installed automatically, you could
install it for free from the Microsoft store.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/windows-calculator/9wzdncrfhvn5


Thank you for that link but that Microsoft Store link is broken bad.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/wi...%3aoverviewtab

It uses a protocol who is unknown.
https://image.ibb.co/hvBeoU/Clipboard06.jpg
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Old August 26th 18, 12:15 AM posted to alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default WTF? Setting up new Win10 - where is the standard calculator?

On 8/25/2018 5:39 PM, 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

Do I have to ADD a calculator to Windows 10?

If I have to add a calculator to Windows 10, what free basic big-button
(for tired old eyes) old-style calculator do you use when you don't want to
have anything whatsoever to do with whatever it is that is the "Windows
Store"?

As stated the Calculator is at MS Icon, App list, C, Calculator

Or click MS icon and type calculator


The Windows 10 Calculator is multi function. Open the Calculator that
you found above and click on the three bars at the top under the word
Calculator.

Select the calculator you like. I have mine set to Standard, but
occasionally use one of the other calculators.

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Old August 26th 18, 12:32 AM posted to alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Louis Fabron
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Default WTF? Setting up new Win10 - where is the standard calculator?

Keith Nuttle wrote:

The Windows 10 Calculator is multi function. Open the Calculator that
you found above and click on the three bars at the top under the word
Calculator.


In Windows 10 Cortana I type "calculator".

It has a blue link to "install app".

I clicks on that blue link to "install app".

This comes up.
https://image.ibb.co/fq4kCp/Clipboard07.jpg

Microsoft says.
"You'll need a new app to open this ms-windows-store"

By the way what does the little 2 superscript mean next to calculator(2)?
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Old August 26th 18, 12:38 AM posted to alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default WTF? Setting up new Win10 - where is the standard calculator?

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

Do I have to ADD a calculator to Windows 10?

If I have to add a calculator to Windows 10, what free basic big-button
(for tired old eyes) old-style calculator do you use when you don't want to
have anything whatsoever to do with whatever it is that is the "Windows
Store"?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window...tor#Windows_10
"All Windows 10 editions (both LTSB and non-LTSB) continue to have a
calc.exe, which however is just a stub that launches (via ShellExecute)
the handler that is associated with the 'calculator:' pseudo-protocol."

So you need to install a handler for the protocol. That means having to
get one from the MS Store. Or ...

https://winaero.com/blog/get-calcula...in-windows-10/
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Old August 26th 18, 12:51 AM posted to alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Louis Fabron
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Default WTF? Setting up new Win10 - where is the standard calculator?

VanguardLH wrote:

So you need to install a handler for the protocol. That means having to
get one from the MS Store. Or ...

https://winaero.com/blog/get-calcula...in-windows-10/


Thank you for that helpful information.
I installed that winaero free windows 7 windows 8 calc.

It is running now when I press on the "calc.exe" System32 executable.
https://preview.ibb.co/nMhmk9/Clipboard08.jpg

Does anyone know what the Cortana "2" means in the word "Calculator^2"?
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Old August 26th 18, 01:01 AM posted to alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default WTF? Setting up new Win10 - where is the standard calculator?

On 08/25/2018 6:51 PM, Louis Fabron wrote:
VanguardLH wrote:

So you need to install a handler for the protocol. That means having to
get one from the MS Store. Or ...

https://winaero.com/blog/get-calcula...in-windows-10/


Thank you for that helpful information.
I installed that winaero free windows 7 windows 8 calc.

It is running now when I press on the "calc.exe" System32 executable.
https://preview.ibb.co/nMhmk9/Clipboard08.jpg

Does anyone know what the Cortana "2" means in the word "Calculator^2"?


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

Rene
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Old August 26th 18, 01:13 AM posted to alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Louis Fabron
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Default WTF? Setting up new Win10 - where is the standard calculator?

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".
 




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