Windows 10: How to get normal calculator back?

Well lucky you. Perhaps I was just enjoying a feature of the Home version...

 

There are some third party calculators that are the same as the old calculator and you can find them via Google.. and they are free.

I find that this one works great:
Old Windows 7 Calculator for Windows 10

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Who said you can't resize it? Resizing seems to work fine for me. The smallest size is no bigger than the old calculator in older versions of windows.

 

Can someone tell me how to reduce the calculator screen if I can't access the top right hand corner (that has the prompts)? My prompts are hidden due to the size of the screen...so I can't reduce the size this way

 

Not only that, but you also can't paste equations with the equal sign, '=', at the end and have it automatically solve them like you could in the old version. (The new version tells you "Invalid Input".)

I *have* discovered that you can paste an equation into the Windows 10 task bar search with the equal sign at the end and Windows will solve it for you, which is pretty nifty to use in a pinch, but this still doesn't have the full copy, paste, and memory features of the old calculator alongside being able to paste in the equal sign, so Cortana's not a true workaround.

I'll have to use the aforementioned tool to revert back to the old calculator.

 

Thanks so much for the update mmortal03! I appreciate your diligence regarding this "hiccup" your persistance to this detail shows you have great fortitude ! A BIG Thanks to you again! Have a great weekend!! *Cool ​SOLVED

 

Thanks for the link to the old calculator, hate aps, hate app based windows really. Nice to have my little desktop calc back ).

 

Small Calculator


Big Calculator

 

As it was in Windows over 20 years ago, and has been ever since, Alt+Spacebar brings a Window size and position menu into action




choose Size. The cursor becomes a North East South West 4-way arrow. Move it to a side or top of the window, and it becomes an East-West or North South 2-way arrow, which can click-and-drag the sides or top in and out. Move it into the window at the top where the title bar traditionally was, and it becomes the North East South West 4-way arrow, and click-and-drag now moves the whole window, so you can see the bottom. The corners will give diagonal 2-headed arrows which move both vertical and horizontal borders of the window. When you get to the minimum size, you can go no further.
If you have only a keyboard and no pointing device, after Alt+Spacebar, press S and use the arrow keys to resize the window.