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by Someone1234 2669 days ago
I might try to commit to this.

I've always found the "App" version of Calculator lacking compare to its Win32 predecessor. In particular History. On the old Calculator you could double-click the history and edit the equation, and get a new result, no go on the App.

Plus the Programmer UI, while being more powerful is actually harder to use since the information is now split between two screens rather than one.

Oh and you cannot paste in currency ($10) is now invalid. The old one just stripped the currency symbols.

2 comments

I use this: https://winaero.com/blog/get-calculator-from-windows-8-and-w...

I don't know if it has the features you're missing, I use it because I don't like the look and feel of the new apps.

Very nice, and it even has a chocolatey package via choco install oldcalc so I can do my [Windows]+R calc and have the Win8 calculator open, very nice indeed!
I don't like the fact that the new calculator always seems to be the wrong size, when using different DPI monitors. I don't need calc to take up 90% of the screen and I don't want to have to resize it. There's no real need for that. Agreed on the history missing functionality, that has annoyed me too.