Aero Taskforce

Folder navigation inside Windows Explorer (by up/down buttons)

Submitted by w64bit on January 15, 2010 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

Problem: When navigating on left pane of Windows Explorer using up/down keyboard buttons, the content on selected folder is not displayed on the right pane.

Solution: Folder content should be displayed.

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

[Time] The more clocks, the more setting modes

Submitted by Flora43 on June 19, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Usability

Problem: Note -- it isn't a problem with only Windows, it's a problem with almost every clock.

Windows for PCs has a dialog box where you can set time and date. No unwanted questions like „Save changes?”. <- OK

Windows (more...)

Solution: Microsoft can't fix the problem with my little clock, but please remove this unwanted confirmation dialog in the next version of Windows Mobile!

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(4 comments)

Keyboard focus in file dialog

Submitted by Lasse on April 17, 2009 to Annoyance, Legacy, Usability

Problem: When navigating the file dialog with the keyboard, after pressing Enter to go into a given directory the keyboard focus is changed to the file name field.

Edit: Yeah, sorry forgot to mention the fact that this happens in Windows 7 build (more...)

Solution: The keyboard focus should remain in the list view.

Severity: High

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

Suggestion about Picture Viewing

Submitted by jc4life05 on April 8, 2009 to Usability, Website suggestion

Problem: No integration with Silverlight Deep Zoom for picture zooming. Picture fidelity is not up to par with other sites, neither does it utilize Silverlight's capabilities.

Solution: I would like to see the integration of Silverlight Deep Zoom for the reference pictures on this site.

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

(1 comments)

Narrator is running but not shown in taskbar

Submitted by jc4life05 on April 8, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Bug, Icons, Usability

Problem: As you can see from the picture below, I have Narrator running, usually it starts automatically when I start the computer or return from sleep mode. However, the narrator program is not visible on the taskbar.

This happens in Vista Business (more...)

Solution: A simple solution would be to add a troubleshooting feature that is in the action center to remedy this situation. In less words, fix the bug and show narrator when it should be shown.

Severity: Medium

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(2 comments)

Performance Issue History

Submitted by jc4life05 on April 8, 2009 to Usability

Problem: As you can see by the picture, the minute I installed Windows 7, I had an extremely significant decrease in reliability.

Solution: I feel that your send feedback should have the option to talk with/chat with a live agent from Microsoft. This will assist in troubleshooting specific problems.

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

(1 comments)

Start Menu customisation by right click and drag reveals All users/current user structure

Submitted by dal765 on April 1, 2009 to Annoyance, Usability

Problem: Example: I have folder categories in the Start Menu e.g. Internet, Multimedia, Maintenance, Office...

I commonly right click and drag on the folder for a newly installed program's shortcuts to move it to a 'category folder'.
(more...)

Solution: Proposed solution:
Drag and drop should appear as a single user operation.

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

Filenames covered by taskbar

Submitted by Amtrak7 on January 25, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Bug, Usability

Problem: When you have a file as the last one in a column on the desktop and that file has a long enough filename, it is obscured by the taskbar. The full filename of the file in the example is 'The Trains of the Obama Express January 17 2009.flv'.

Solution: Make the filename appear to the side or elsewhere.

Severity: Medium

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(3 comments)

Include POSIX-style command line tools as an installation option

Submitted by joec2000 on January 19, 2009 to Usability

Problem: It would be great if I didn't have to install Cygwin to get POSIX-style command line utilities like ls, sftp, ssh, grep, etc. How many of you guys that jump from platform to platform have typed ls at a DOS prompt?

Solution: I know they weren't written by MS, but come on, can't we all just get along? They're free, they're simple and some of them have been around for decades. At the very least make them an installation option.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(8 comments)

Use Boot Manager font in Chkdsk and other BootExecute applications

Submitted by Phil_123 on January 12, 2009 to Annoyance, Usability

Problem: On some localized versions of Windows (since Windows 2000 I think), an additional font is loaded to help display the localized version of the boot manager. But when an app is ran during BootExecute (such as chkdsk when you shut down Windows improperly (more...)

Solution: Find some way to let that BootExecute mode keep on using Boot Manager's font, or any other way to make it capable of displaying Unicode characters.

Severity: Low

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(3 comments)

spacebar presses "cancel" in a UAC prompt

Submitted by zomgguy on January 9, 2009 to Annoyance, Usability

Problem: I am typing on Windows Live Messenger and doing other stuff as well. Then a UAC prompt comes up in my face and I accidentally press spacebar (because, you know, I'm typing) and it presses cancel.

Solution: I know spacebar presses the highlighted button, and by default, the cancel button is highlighted. The cancel button should NOT be highlighted by default (the allow button shouldn't be highlighted either).

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

(8 comments)

System Configuration (msconfig) window should be resizeable

Submitted by NinjaDreams on January 8, 2009 to Annoyance, Usability

Problem: The window does not provide enough horizontal space to view all the information (without scrolling), especially in the Services and Startup tabs.

Note, this is a similar issue to (more...)

Solution: Allow the window to be resized.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(2 comments)

Wlan high pings to Router about every minute or two

Submitted by NebulusJones on January 3, 2009 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

Problem: A background service causes that vista scans every minute for a better accesspoint. So the ping goes up to about 3000ms or completly loses connection to the router.

This causes that websites are no longer surfable or games got extreme lags (more...)

Solution: not known

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(3 comments)

Can't easily add the same port to both TCP and UDP on Window's Firewall

Submitted by migueld on December 27, 2008 to Usability

Problem: When manually adding a port to the exceptions list in Windows's firewall, one can't add the same port to both TCP and UDP. To do so, one must create separate entries. It would be nice if one could set the same port to both protocols without (more...)

Solution: Add a third radio button "Both" so that the user can choose whether he wants the port on TCP, UDP, or Both. OR another solution could be to make them check boxes, so one can check one of them or both (thanks Ensign Joe). Pick your solution, (more...)

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(3 comments)

Inconsistent volume mixer - 4 problems

Submitted by litemininyuszika on December 21, 2008 to Annoyance, Usability

Problem: 1. problem:
If I set anything's volume higher than the master volume, it also, then newly started apps have the higher volume!

2. problem:
If I set master volume lower than the app with highest volume, apps' volume (more...)

Solution: Here are the solutions for 2 problems:

1. A volume for new apps-like control is needed.
3. Immediately after starting an app, show it's mixer in Volume Mixer.

2. and 4. problem should also be fixed.

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed