"cmparker" said in
I have XP Home and I can't find my calculator anywhere. I have
checked in accessories and by search calc.exe. I have also tried to
add through windows components in the control panel but it asks for a
CD ROM of XP and this was pre-loaded software when I bought the
computer. Therefore, I have no disc. Can anyone help me to get a
claculator in XP? Thanks
If Windows was pre-loaded, where is YOUR copy of the media used to
reinstall the operating system? Drives go bad, viruses can so infect a
system that reinstall is better than a doubtful and flaky resulting
recovery, running Repair for Windows is sometimes needed to fix
corruption, and more reasons. You should have received some media used
to provide a legal copy of Windows. On some computers, this is a hidden
partition on the hard drive (so you'll lose your copy if the hard drive
fails, so as the seller how to make a copy of the Windows install onto
CDs). Some provide disk images that merely restore the drive to its
install-time image and overwrites and wipes out everything on the drive.
Some provide BIOS-locked OEM versions on CD that can only be used with
that brand and model. You'll need to find out where is the legal copy
of Windows that supposedly came with your unnamed system. If you didn't
get a CD with Windows on it, you'll need to talk to whomever built your
computer to find out from them how to install additional components that
are included in Windows but for which they choose not to install.
