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Text to speach icon very old
The Text to Speech icon is very old (before Windows XP)
Update Icon
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Low
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Old fashioned system icons
Although many users don't know their existence or don't mind their look, most (or all ?) of the system icons should be modernized.
For example: "eventvwr.exe" (Event Viewer), "Active Directory", "Secruity Configuration (more...)
Update the icons.
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Low
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Screen Saver Configuration UI Missing
When the new screen savers shipped with Windows Vista, they shipped without the options to change / customize them. Long blogged about it on Sept. 9, 2006. The option to change them is available in the registry see: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Screensavers\.
Add dialog boxes to allow access to the screen saver customization options that are already present in the OS.
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Low
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White background behind file icons in a folder icon
There is an unnecessary white background behind document icons when displayed inside of a folder icon. I think it's a bad design decision.
Make use of the alpha channel and shadow of the file icons.
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Low
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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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Inconsistent design of colored status boxes
Every place Windows Vista displays a colored "status" box has a different style.
On the "Windows Firewall" page:
* Colored heading with fade to white
* Blue, rounded, 1 pixel borders
* Icon within (more...)
Use one style and consistent spacing.
Consider improving the ugly "pastel fade to white" in the headers.
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Network tab uses pre-XP icon
Right-click a shared folder in Network and click the Network tab. An outdated icon is displayed.
Update the icon.
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Low
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Shutdown and Lock buttons on Windows Classic
The buttons on Shutdown and Lock buttons on the Start menu on Windows classic are surrounded with white thing that looks like a bad GIF image.
Fix Icons
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Low
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Explorer windows have no title or icon
Title bars in all Windows Explorer windows are empty. The space is there, it's just not being used for anything.
Although the breadcrumb bar is close, this doesn't help for complex paths or when only the title bar is visible. (more...)
Revert to behavior of previous versions of Windows. The existing Aero style can remain, just draw a window icon and title.
The previous option to show just the current folder name or the full path was also helpful. Consider appending (more...)
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Language Bar Menu and Dialog box
Language bar menu does not match Vista UI. It looks like a quick job to imitate the menu. Moreover, any menu option that leads to a dialog box, gives you Windows 2000 style (Windows classic look), this includes the buttons.
Update Dialog box, and use Vista UI for the menu.
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Low
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Grayed out text labels
Grayed out text labels are not anti-aliased.
Anti-alias grayed out text labels.
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Low
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