Windows 10: Want good old mspaint.exe and calc.exe from Windows XP back on WIndows

Greetings, everyone.

As the title reads, I want Windows XP's mspaint.exe and calc.exe for using them on my Windows 10 but the results I'm getting by searching the net don't seem quite reliable. Is there any still up download link for these? If not, could anybody who lives on a cave and still uses WXP send them to me?

Regards,
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:)

 

Where will I find Calculator in Windows 10 and how do I get it to my desktop

If you particularly want to have a shortcut on your Desktop then right-click in an empty area of it, select
New, Shortcut then enter this in the path

C:\Windows\System32\calc.exe

then click on Next

and enter whatever you want [Calc / Calculator / any old rubbish] for its name.

Denis

 

Windows 10 Calculator

Hi,

What happens when you type and run "calc.exe" from Run dialog? Last time I checked the Windows Calculator package reinstalled itself automatically when running calc.exe.

Or, open Windows Store, search for Windows Calculator and install from there.

 

That's trouble I'd obviously like to avoid if possible.

 

You can find re-written versions of both at (winaero) Downloads /software
(excuse my theme, the windows won't look like that!)

 

Being curious I went to winaero.com and found the calculator but haven't yet found mspaint.

 

You can get one called paint from the store also fresh paint they both work with windows 10 also do a search for paint net which also is kept up to date and works with 10 as I use all 3

 

Oops! My bad, sorry bout that!
It's over here, with instructions to replace default Paint, or you can run it as a stand alone:

[Tip] Get Classic MS Paint (without Ribbons) in Windows 7 and Later - AskVG

 

There's also a link to 'Simple Classic WordPad' in the previous post link.

 

If you have an XP install disk you can extract them from that. Their .exe and .chm files are all in the I386 folder in compressed form:
MSPAINT.EX_ MSPAINT.CH_ CALC.EX_ CALC.CH_
These can be expanded from a command prompt, for example:
expand -r mspaint.ex_
No install required, just put them in a folder and run them from there. Pin to Start for easy access.

Wanting Calc I can understand, it's not a Modern Windows App like its Windows 10 counterpart, but why Paint? Apart from the ribbon interface there seems very little difference between the XP and W10 versions.

 

I have the disc but I also still have a usable WinXP computer, and Vista and Win98 and Win98SE and Win3.1/MS-DOS 5. I wasn't thinking ahead and put a nice WinME in Recycle. Win2000 was good but I upgraded that one to WinXP Pro.

 

Thanks. Exactly what I needed. I can cross paint out of my list.


The calculator available there has the same issue I want to avoid. It discards decimals for operations with the scientifica calculator and I need to use it for hex to dec and viceversa conversion so it's annoying needing to change all the time between scientific and standard.

Sadly I have none.

With paint I miss the capability to paste an image and make transparent on it the currently selected secondary color:



It was really useful as a workaround for running color replacements. The version provided by Edwin has that and more though so I already have what I needed from it.

 

If you are comfortable with decompressing files decompress the ones in this .zip file into a Folder. The files themselves are already decompressed.

 

Exactly what I needed. Thanks *Smile

 

Pinta is another really nice paint application. Pinta: Painting Made Simple! - PintaProject/Pinta