This may seem lame or even trivial to some of you, and that is cool, but to me it was an issue. I discovered Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, removed a long standing feature of Windows I have always used and replaced it with some god awful and ridiculous new thing that is almost impossible to use( without a writing pad ).
What did they do you ask? They took out the calculator from Windows>Accessories. Why would they do that? It baffles me? I use that all the time. It is actually one of the few programs I actually keep in the quick launch bar (QLB) at the bottom of the screen.
Anyway, I had a massive computer failure yesterday and decided that seeing as I was starting from scratch that I would finally do the upgrade to Windows 10 while going through the repairs. Today I am reloading software and setting things up the way I like them. When I went to grab the calculator to stick in the QLB it wasn't there. All I saw was a "Math Input Panel" which is USELESS. I looked around some but couldn't find the calculator so I went online to see where they moved it to?
Imagine my surprise( well not really - this is Microsoft after all )to see that countless others have asked the same thing and the answer is that the calculator is gone. Just dumb frankly.
Anyway...
To shorten up this little tirade of mine, the good news is there is a company out there who has made the original Windows 7/8 calculator program/app available for download and it works in Windows 10. It is a small file download you unzip then install the .exe and it puts the original Windows calculator back into the Windows>Accessories folder where it should have been all along.
If any of you would like to add this simple, but important and useful, feature back into Windows 10 you can download it here...
http://winaero.com/download.php?view.1795
Hope it helps and sorry for the lengthy rant. I just get so sick of Microsoft forever trying to fix things that just are not broken.
What did they do you ask? They took out the calculator from Windows>Accessories. Why would they do that? It baffles me? I use that all the time. It is actually one of the few programs I actually keep in the quick launch bar (QLB) at the bottom of the screen.
Anyway, I had a massive computer failure yesterday and decided that seeing as I was starting from scratch that I would finally do the upgrade to Windows 10 while going through the repairs. Today I am reloading software and setting things up the way I like them. When I went to grab the calculator to stick in the QLB it wasn't there. All I saw was a "Math Input Panel" which is USELESS. I looked around some but couldn't find the calculator so I went online to see where they moved it to?
Imagine my surprise( well not really - this is Microsoft after all )to see that countless others have asked the same thing and the answer is that the calculator is gone. Just dumb frankly.
Anyway...
To shorten up this little tirade of mine, the good news is there is a company out there who has made the original Windows 7/8 calculator program/app available for download and it works in Windows 10. It is a small file download you unzip then install the .exe and it puts the original Windows calculator back into the Windows>Accessories folder where it should have been all along.
If any of you would like to add this simple, but important and useful, feature back into Windows 10 you can download it here...
http://winaero.com/download.php?view.1795
Hope it helps and sorry for the lengthy rant. I just get so sick of Microsoft forever trying to fix things that just are not broken.