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1970-01-01·

I removed telemetry on my Win10 system and now calc.exe crashes on basic calculations. I've reported this but nobody cares because the next step in troubleshooting is to reinstall Windows. So if telemetry fails, calc.exe will silently explode. Therefore no, anyone cannot make it.

Won't fix: https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/issues/148

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> Won't fix: https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/issues/148

I don't see how one can expect them to take a report worded this way seriously. Perhaps if they actually reported the crash without the tantrum the team would fix it.

So they send telemetry that shows what people are calculating.

Does it mean that there are some "dangerous" numbers that can be used to flag someone?

I did begin poking at the crash for security issues but gave up after 10 minutes

I don't know if you've already heard of illegal numbers; otherwise, you're one of today's lucky ten thousand!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number

That one I know (ah the days digg died...) but it seems that there are some others? That can be calculated on a windows calculator?

Based on the thread, you can build it from the source code and telemetry won’t be enabled…

I just use the Win7 binary. Calc.exe is the definition of something that really doesn't need to change.

How do you make the Win7 binary run? Last I tried it doesn’t run if you just have the .exe?

https://win7games.com/#calc

Windows XP's mspaint.exe stopped working at some point :(. I was also in the team "simple tool worked as I want it to" for as long as that lasted. (I don't use Windows anymore, not for only this reason obviously but still, I don't seem to have these problems anymore where you can't make things work a certain way.)

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