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USB/Flash drives do not have "percentage used" color overlay
My USB is FAT32, and is shown in Computer. If i right click, and click view as portable device, it comes up in an anoying window, which DOES show an overlay. First, the "portable device" concept is useless, and second, why does it show the overlay?
Centralize portable devices into Computer, and let USB drives have remaining space overlay
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Increase the Driver Selection list box size.
The driver selection list box has been the same size since windows 98. It's very frustrating when you want to see a list of drivers available. Surely it could make better use of the window space. It's understandable that the window may need (more...)
Re-arrange the text to give the list boxes more window height and utilize the wasted spaces. Allow the window to be resized and resize the list boxes accordingly to display the most information possible.
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Icon For Computer Folder Should Vary Depending Upon Notebook Or Desktop
After installing windows vista and booting up for the first time I recognized that the computer folder carried a desktop icon even though I was on a notebook. A notebook icon for computer should be utilized for notebooks. I found one tucked away in imageres.dll.
Make a notebook icon default for computer on explorer for notebooks and a desktop icon default for computer on explorer for desktops.
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Command prompt: Where is UAC?
When I use a command that require administrator privileges, why does it run only to return an access denied error, forcing me to run the same command again in a separate Command Prompt with administrator privileges?
Make commands that require administrator privileges ask for it through UAC, just like everything else in everywhere else. Or implement a *nix su command equivalent that elevates the Command Prompt session.
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Different 'Recent Pages' arrows in Explorer/IE
The arrow that allows to acceed to recent pages/folders in the explorer and in IE is different in IE. This problem appears in both IE7 and IE8 but only when the display is set on 96dpi.
The guilty resources is the TRAVEL_BACKGROUND.BMP located (more...)
The solution already exists. Just replace the resource mentioned in 'Problem' part by this one: http://download324.mediafire.com/jzywamgjdjjg/y.../TRAVEL_BACKGROUND.BMP (more...)
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Classic Windows Update License Agreement renders radio buttons incorrectly
White box is rendered behind the radio buttons and text with Classic/Standard theme enabled.
Radio button and label should be rendered with a gray background (3D Objects color).
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IMAP folders download uses legacy icons
If you reset your IMAP folders list the download dialogue uses legacy icons.
(This screenshot was taken in Live Mail, but I assume that it is the same in Windows Mail)
Update the icons.
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What are the items in "Do this for all current items (xx found)"?
What are the "all current items" when this dialog comes up during a file moving operation? Why must these items pause the rest of the file moving progress until I answer the dialog?
When moving files, move everything that doesn't need user attention, then show a dialog with a list of every item that needs user confirmation of what to do with them.
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Inline Search for Registry Editor
It's always painful to find the registry key that you are looking to edit/view.
Embed an inline search similar in functionality to WDS. As you type chars in the search box, start filtering the keys on the left to only show those that match.
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Access to 32 bit Control Panel icons in Vista 64 is awkward
In Vista 64, to access 32 bit Control Panel icons, you have to enter a special icon named 'View 32-bit icons'.
This is really counter-intuitive since if you don't know this behaviour beforehand, you will enter the Control Panel and (more...)
32 bit icons should be displayed alongside 64 bit ones, with some sort of visual distinction, such as "(32 bit)" added to its icon label, or an icon overlay.
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Medium
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Allow user to search within "review your update history" area
Vista does not allow the user to search through the "Review your update history" area of the Windows Update window. So, if I am trying to check whether a specific KB article has been installed, it is very difficult to locate, especially since (more...)
Allow the user to perform a search within the "Review your update history" window, or allow the user to sort by the KB article instead of just the name.
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Explorer: fix the hit area for column resize in Details view and keep the mouse cursor updated
Frequently when trying to enlarge a column I accidentally start dragging it instead of resizing it, usually the Name column since many filenames are too long for the default width of the Name column. Turns out the hit area to resize the Name column is (more...)
Center the hit-area around the separator bar and keep the mouse cursor updated in realtime.
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[!] Windows hangs for a while when performing disk operations [!]
[This is copied from http://www.windows7taskforce.com/view/18 - Thanks to NIXin]
This is a severe low-level design problem. (more...)
Reimplement disk access. Don't wait for one disk/network operation to complete in order to continue - multitask!
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High
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DX Diag has old icon
DX Diag's icon is based on the old direct x logo - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3b/DirectX_1_logo.png
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Does direct x even have a logo anymore - if not give the app a windows flag logo? or at least use the slightly newer direct x logo - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/01/Directx9.png
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Icons not showing correctly in "Programs and Features"
After installing programs, often in the "Programs and Features" pane, they either show no icon, the wrong icon, or pixelated/scaled-up Windows XP icons, or even the same icon with different sizes
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