On October 28, 2008, Microsoft distributed the build 6801 of the upcoming Windows 7 to the attendees at its Professional Developers Conference (PDC).
i managed to get a hold of it. And here is one of my most liked feature. The improved windows calendar.
Since i am a assembly level programmer. i always wanted a quick convert from decimal and hexadecimal to binary.
This is so easy with the new Programmers Mode.
Take a look below.
The standard mode also has a new look. see below
The standard mode has a new history feature.
The new look of the scientific mode is below.
And here is a statistics mode.
There is also a date conversion and a unit conversion module. See below.
And here is the hack, getting this to work in Vista and Server 2008.
All i had to do was copy these two files from the 6780 build to my 6001 build.
- C:\Windows\System32\calc.exe
- C:\Windows\System32\en-US\calc.exe.mui
And i had it working.
If you dont want to loose your old calc.exe, but want the new one also, just leave the old files as it is, and paste these new files in the above locations as calc7.exe and calc7.exe.mui.
And you will have the new calc if you type calc 7 in the run prompt.
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