How can I get the Windows 7 calculator on Windows XP?

Question

Can anyone please let me know is it possible to install Windows 7 calculator on Windows XP? If so what is the procedure to install it and could you please send me the link of the Windows 7 calculator that supports Windows XP?

Answer 1

It probably isn't possible, certainly isn't supported and may well be in violation of the license agreement for Windows (although you may want to have that reviewed by a lawyer to be sure). Copying the binary might work, but it is unlikely since the calculator is part of windows so they have no need to make it run on downlevel versions.

Running the W7 version of calc in XP will get you an error of "not a valid win32 application", compatibility mode will not help.

Answer 2

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As you all know there are lots of user who have already introduced Windows 7 calculator for XP, but using Windows 7 calculator in XP requires Microsoft.Net Framework. Here I am Re-introducing a new version of Windows 7 calculator for XP which don’t required any Microsoft.Net Framework.

This calculator Mod has been developed by Mr. Harsh Shivhare. You can install or use it in Windows XP SP2 – SP3, either replace Calc.exe in System32 folder or just click on calc.exe to run it.

You can download it from following link:

Download Windows 7 Calculator for XP SP2

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Or you could:

And for Windows XP’s users, you too can have the Windows 7 Calculator on your machine. This XP version of Windows 7 Calculator has the similar interface as the original one but it can only work for standard mode. It is very sad that you can’t try the two newly added modes, Programmer and Statistics. Installation is not needed to use this calculator. Just extract the downloaded zip file and run the calc.exe file. You need Microsoft .NET framework 3.5 on your Windows in order to run the application.

Download Windows 7 Calculator for Windows XP Now

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Alternatively in Vista:

Download Windows-7-Calculator.rar.

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Unpack the content to another folder, and run the calc.exe to use the Windows 7 Calculator in Windows Vista. To replace existing default Calculator program in Windows Vista, copy calc.exe to \Windows\System32\, and calc.exe.mui (in en-US folder) to \Windows\System32\en-US\ folder, overwriting existing file (you may want to backup the old Calculator binaries first in case of error running Windows 7 version). Voila, now the new Windows 7 Calculator has been installed on Windows Vista.