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Power plan editor window is busy and requires too much clicks
Advanced power plan editor window looks too busy, settings tree size is way small for such amount of options, each option requires too many unnecessary clicks to access its editor.
Show options editors at-a-glance; make window bigger and not that crowded; put meaningful descriptions to things like "Link State Power Management" or "USB selective suspend setting".
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Explorer window taskbar icons don't update for special folders (Documents, Pictures, etc.)
When opening a folder with a special icon (like Documents, Pictures, Music, etc.), the icon will appear in the taskbar. However, the icon is not used when navigating to that folder from elsewhere. (For instance, open Documents from the Start Menu. Navigate (more...)
The taskbar icon should update to use the current folder's special icon (if it exists).
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Low
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Environment Variable Dialog is not intuitive
The environment variable dialog lists all the system variables in a long text in an edit box and only separated by a semicolon. For example, if i have a "PATH" environment variable, which contains 20-30 paths, to edit it would be extremely difficult (more...)
I prefer if the environment variable edit box should be listed in a listview box, (just like visual studio 2008, VC++ directories) so that it can be viewed easily, and edited easily.
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Medium
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Copy/Move Files
The issue occurs when we copy or move a lot of files together. If there is a problem while moving one of the file, the whole thing stops and waits for a User to select an option.
Now this becomes really annoying when you are copying a (more...)
Though there is a 'Skip' option in Vista, I would suggest that we have something like, the erroneous file is automatically skipped and re-tried at the end or the prompt comes right at the end. Now let' say that I am moving 100 files and (more...)
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Improve Windows Notepad - Bug Fixes and New Features
Current Bugs:
When saving, cursor often relocates itself.
Word Wrap is inconsistent. Often, especially after saving, if the window is resized, Word Wrap does not readjust itself, causing misalignment of text.
View Status Bar (more...)
Improvements:
Move selected text by way of drag and drop.
View menu option: Line Numbers
Tab Bar for multiple file editing in a single window
And of course, fix all bugs specified above
Implement Common (more...)
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Medium
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Disk Quota applet
Disk Quota tab has legacy and weird icon. Quota management console has Windows 95-styles and icons.
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Low
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Phone and Modem options
In the Control Panel, the “Phone and Modem Option” Panel, is simply Windows 2000 look, it doesn’t even have Vista buttons.
Update style
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Mixed icons in IE security settings
The security settings in IE shows classic and moderns icons in a mixed way.
Replace the old fashioned icons by new ones (suggestion: the same like the others) or replace both icon sets with completely new ones.
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Drag-and-drop Breadcrumb Bar
You're unable to drag files to folders listed on the breadcrumb bar, and unable to drag folders off the breadcrumb bar. This limits the use of the breadcrumb bar in accessing folders in the same hierarchy, adding this feature would give great convenience (more...)
Allow full drag-and-drop capability on breadcrumb bar.
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System Icons: Inconsistent Hover Panes
These are basic informative panels, introduced in Vista, but it looks like each team developed their own "style".
- Font colour, placement and sizes are different.
- Icon size and placement are different (the power one looks really (more...)
Redesign them, taking into account:
- The solution needs to remove the inconsistencies noted above
- They need to be simple and bold (users are hovering over to get the info quickly without clicking) - the important info should stand out (more...)
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Low
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Install from disk - Driver location
Adding a new device, asking where to find drivers it'll point to... A:/
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Sync Center, and sync in general, is a complete mess
- Offline Files do not always sync correctly, if they sync at all.
- Sync partnership are not always deleted when you deselect "Always Available Offline" on a folder. This results in partherships which are impossible to delete.
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Redesign the entire sync framework and UI... AGAIN, and this time do it properly!
High
High
Not fixed
On-Screen Keyboard
On-Screen Keyboard needs some design update. Some text are not properly aligned (see “esc” key, and F9,F10, F11, F12). Windows XP icon.
Update style, icon.
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Low
Fixed
Add an option for editing the context menu (right click)
Nowadays, each application we install puts it's own "uniqe touch" on various menus: the desktop menu, IE menu, misc media files menu, etc... The problem is that not every applications lets you disable these items!
Add a simple method for editing those menu items (disable, remove or even move them). It can be placed in the "personalization" panel.
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Start Menu w/Custom DPI overdraws buttons past edge of menu
Note the start menu control buttons. (My DPI is set to 108)
QA Windows more throughly with non standard 96 dpi settings. You'll find a number of issues.
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