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Application Continuity - Pick one!
Just look at the photo. My first reaction is - "Man, I hate when I get a brand new computer and it comes preloaded with all this random bloatware". Then you realize it actually is part of Vista and a little bit of your geek soul dies.
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All kidding aside - the best thing to do here is really start over. Do not try to fix a trainwreck - you will spend more time on it than you think and your result wont be as nice. I do not know how MS develops, I would hope the UI is very disconnected (more...)
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"Look & Feel" of Control Panel items is all over the place
For some reason, someone decided that it was "OK" to allow every Control Panel item have an entirely different User Interface.
- Some are standard Dialogs.
- Some are "explorer" windows with a left-side "task (more...)
Change Control Panel configurations to use a common UI.
Suggestions:
- Simple tree-view like MMC
- Office 2007 style ie "Word Options" (just add icons)
- Even an Outlook style interface could work
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Legacy control panel applets
Many of the control panels options are XP-style applets (called "property sheets", ie: Windows Firewall Settings, Sound Settings), living side-by-side with the new integrated pages, which provide a familiar navigation pattern and help guide (more...)
Redesign the legacy property sheets in the control panel as task flow pages.
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Applications stealing focus
I'm doing something. Another application decides I shouldn't, so it bumps to the front and grabs keyboard focus, to ask me something irrelevant to what I was doing (Usually an installer or some other long-running process asking me something (more...)
The complete cure is two-fold.
The easy part: continue redesigning your applications that steal focus. Lead with the example.
The hard part: deprecate (and later remove) the mechanism that allows such behavior. If an application wants your (more...)
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Window Control tooltips
The tooltips for the min/max/close buttons are different from all the others.
Use Aero style tooltips.
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~1995 Screen Flicker
This is an overall problem on Vista - you will see this when you do the following:
Boot - I understand that MS does not control the hardware, and I will accept one flicker as it windows takes over after post, HOWEVER - there is about 3 (more...)
Boot - After post, windows should read what resolution & color depth was last used, and boot with that, DO NOT SHOW anything until you are prepared to it is much better to wait than to have the screen popping on you. Apple has done this, so can you!
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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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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!
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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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Open up the window, I hate scrolling
Most windows open up set to accommodate 640x480 resolution. I haven't used that resolution since 1992. My present monitor is 24" and this vast amount of screen real estate can accommodate and open any window wide enough and high enough to (more...)
Microsoft ought to get serious about Window aesthetics, and then return overall control of such matters to the user. If little utilities like Sizer can remember and set window proportions, I would think that in the million lines of code behind Vista (more...)
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Any Network Related UI
Ok, this has to be one of the biggest areas that completely missed the mark in Vista. Managing your network.
To connect to a Wireless network on Vista the first time is somewhere between 5 and 10,000 clicks. I kid, but it is to much.
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"Start -> connect to" should not bring up a silly dialog, it should be a menu of all your available connections, including available wireless connections. Do not make me jump through a wizard just to get connected.
Network (more...)
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Vector Based Graphics with Scaling
Sure, I can change the font size and make everything look way out of wack... I'd rather just be able to scale everything to whatever size I want, instead of just the font. Where are the vector graphics that I read would be in Longhorn? I'd love (more...)
If you want to be cheap about it, make some lower widescreen resolutions available. If you want to make people happy, replace icons, images, etc. with vector graphics.
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“Customize Notification Icons” is a convicted Amnesiac!
Its designed to provide greater control, but just doesn’t listen to orders.
Fix the bug! when i say jump you say how high, when i say 'hide' you HIDE!
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Inconsistent theme colours
Theme colours are inconsistently applied in ListBox and ComboBox's. Changing the default colour of selected items in Windows (i.e. text selection/listbox selections) does not get applied to listboxes or comboboxes - it seems that these controls use (more...)
Fix the bug in listbox and combobox drawing code that was not present in earlier versions of windows.
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