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PowerCalc is a good simple calculator. Today, it’s one of my favorite standard classic Windows programs (free download). It’s easy, fast, low-overhead (low footprint), and basic.

powercalc.exe easily beats calc.exe, since you can type equations as a line of text with history. Also does variables, functions, graphing, binary/hex, scientific functions, conversions… powercalc.exe is missing some basic things like factorial, but it’s at least great for just simple + – / * (and a little more).

As of today, I’ve only seen a Windows XP 32-bit version. However, I run PowerCalc on Windows Vista x64 (in fact, it’s one of my taskbar Quick Launch icons). All you have to do is install the powercalc.exe on a Windows XP machine, then copy the powercalc.exe file over to your Windows Vista machine (if you copy it to %windir%\system32, then you can access it quickly with WinKey+R for Run, then type powercalc, then EnterKey).

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/Downloads/powertoys/Xppowertoys.mspx

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Now that I’ve experimented with blogging a little (having written 10 posts), I think a better plan for categories is to make them as I go and let them evolve based on the content of the posts. (This should beat my original plan, which was to fret about making perfect categories from the start that would last for eternity).

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