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Don't even get me started with Windows. I am still mad the simple things like a calculator and picture viewer somehow got removed.

vel0city 7y ago
That's strange. I still have a calculator on my Windows 10 install. Its resizable, has a history, can do unit conversions, a quick shortcut to keep on top, and has a ton more features than the old one. The old Windows Photo Viewer still exists and is the default out of the box to open .TIF files. With a couple of short registry hacks you can make it the default for other photo types again. Other than multi-page TIF files, I usually do prefer the newer app as it once again offers a ton more features.
- tomc1985 7y ago
  Regarding the photo viewer... IrfanView
  - klingonopera 7y ago
    The VLC for images!
- eaandkw 7y ago
  My biggest complaint is that I have to do anything. Viewing and picture and the calculator have been around forever. I should not have to do a registry hack to bring it back. I usually don't learn that anything has changed until I actually want to use it then I'm like WFT where did X app go?
  - vel0city 7y ago
    The calculator is included on any regular, unmodified install of Windows -- no registry hack required. There is still a photo viewing app available called Photos. Its different, but overall has a ton more features. Once again, no registry hack required. Or are you arguing that default apps in Windows should just never change to newer, more featured versions?
- klingonopera 7y ago
  The Windows 10 calculator is nothing like the old one. It's somehow different from a native Windows app, it's somehow integrated into the Windows Store thing. Right-click a shortcut to it - you can't set any custom hotkey for it anymore. I can't use CTRL+ALT+C to open Calculator anymore. Thanks Windows 10, another step back. (Also, wow! I didn't think it would be possible to make the UI so ugly and the app so slow to start. What does it need to do? Oh, yes, telemetry, right?) Funnily enough, there's still a "native" (?) .exe or two buried somewhere in the Windows installation directory, but executing them... bring backs the Windows Store Calculator. I don't care anymore. Windows is dead to me. Except that I need to develop for other people who use Windows, but I can use Windows 7 for that, for me, personally, I'm quite hell-bent to change to Linux and forever excape the corporate software tyranny.
ssully 7y ago
I honestly don't know what you are talking about, there is still a native calculator and photo viewer. I just verified I am on the latest professional version of windows.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago
  On my system, the calculator only comes up if I explicitly type "calc.exe". "calc" gets me LibreOffice Calc, and "calculator" gets me... nothing. I am forced to accept that either Microsoft's Windows division is so incompetent that they did this on purpose, or so incompetent that they did this by accident.

vel0city 7y ago

That's strange. I still have a calculator on my Windows 10 install. Its resizable, has a history, can do unit conversions, a quick shortcut to keep on top, and has a ton more features than the old one. The old Windows Photo Viewer still exists and is the default out of the box to open .TIF files. With a couple of short registry hacks you can make it the default for other photo types again. Other than multi-page TIF files, I usually do prefer the newer app as it once again offers a ton more features.

tomc1985 7y ago
Regarding the photo viewer... IrfanView
- klingonopera 7y ago
  The VLC for images!
eaandkw 7y ago
My biggest complaint is that I have to do anything. Viewing and picture and the calculator have been around forever. I should not have to do a registry hack to bring it back. I usually don't learn that anything has changed until I actually want to use it then I'm like WFT where did X app go?
- vel0city 7y ago
  The calculator is included on any regular, unmodified install of Windows -- no registry hack required. There is still a photo viewing app available called Photos. Its different, but overall has a ton more features. Once again, no registry hack required. Or are you arguing that default apps in Windows should just never change to newer, more featured versions?
klingonopera 7y ago
The Windows 10 calculator is nothing like the old one. It's somehow different from a native Windows app, it's somehow integrated into the Windows Store thing. Right-click a shortcut to it - you can't set any custom hotkey for it anymore. I can't use CTRL+ALT+C to open Calculator anymore. Thanks Windows 10, another step back. (Also, wow! I didn't think it would be possible to make the UI so ugly and the app so slow to start. What does it need to do? Oh, yes, telemetry, right?) Funnily enough, there's still a "native" (?) .exe or two buried somewhere in the Windows installation directory, but executing them... bring backs the Windows Store Calculator. I don't care anymore. Windows is dead to me. Except that I need to develop for other people who use Windows, but I can use Windows 7 for that, for me, personally, I'm quite hell-bent to change to Linux and forever excape the corporate software tyranny.

ssully 7y ago

I honestly don't know what you are talking about, there is still a native calculator and photo viewer. I just verified I am on the latest professional version of windows.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago
On my system, the calculator only comes up if I explicitly type "calc.exe". "calc" gets me LibreOffice Calc, and "calculator" gets me... nothing. I am forced to accept that either Microsoft's Windows division is so incompetent that they did this on purpose, or so incompetent that they did this by accident.