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Most popular submissions in 'Bug' of all time

18 +18/-0 votes

Ease of Access Center access key problem

Submitted by nitrous9200 on October 18, 2008 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

When you are in the Ease of Access Center, you are given the option to start the Magnifier, Narrator, On-Screen Keyboard or to setup high contrast. Pressing the ALT key in this window underlines the access keys for these options. If you press G for Magnifier, (more...)

Make Alt + G open the Magnifier instead of bringing up the high contrast window.

Medium

Low

Not fixed

18 +21/-3 votes

Unknown WMC Search

Submitted by clindhartsen on September 1, 2008 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

To the better part of my knowledge, Windows Media Center makes no mention, but contains a baseline search function within the Music and Photos/Videos sections. If you begin to type a few letters, it will appear on the screen in large font and find what (more...)

Low

Medium

Not fixed

(2 comments)

18 +24/-6 votes

Unvoted submissions in past 30 days does not work

Submitted by zoran on June 19, 2008 to Bug, Website suggestion

Only "All time" view on Unvoted submissions shows anything. All others show nothing (even though there are submissions). Try for example: http://www.istartedsomething.com/taskforce/index.php?view=unvoted&t=30d, (more...)

Low

Low

Fixed

(2 comments)

17 +21/-4 votes

Snipping Tool Maximize bug

Submitted by Good_Bytes on July 26, 2008 to Aesthetics, Bug

If you take a screen shot with the snipping tool, the software shows you the screen shot you took. If you maximize the window it doesn't take the full screen as it should

Repair the maximize window feature of the Snipping Tool

Low

Low

Not fixed

16 +19/-3 votes

Start Menu Shift+Click Broken/Quirky in Vista

Submitted by BPRampe on August 6, 2008 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

In each version of Windows that feature the Start Menu allows you to click multiple Start Menu shortcuts by holding Shift as you click each link. Holding the Shift key keeps the Start Menu open and active. This behaviour either does not work for some (more...)

Restore consistent Shift+Click functionality for the Start Menu.

Medium

Low

Not fixed

(3 comments)

16 +22/-6 votes

Disappearing Tray Icons for Network, Volume

Submitted by bugdude10 on August 1, 2008 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

For no apparent reason, the Notification Area/Tray icons for Network and Volume will not appear upon booting up (at least on my Dell XPS M1530 laptop w/Vista Ultimate 32-bit), and the option to display them (under Taskbar and Start Menu Properties / Notification (more...)

I can imagine no circumstance when the OS or any reasonable application would need to prevent the user from monitoring their network connection or adjusting their system volume through Notification Area/Tray icons; therefore, this problem should simply (more...)

Low

Low

Not fixed

(5 comments)

This submission ["Safely remove" devices is much worse than on XP] has been marked a duplicate of

Remove dialogue box after having disconnected external drives

Please vote and comment on the original submission.

16 +21/-5 votes

"Safely remove" devices is much worse than on XP

Submitted by zot on June 11, 2008 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Bug, Legacy, Usability

On XP, if you plugged a memory card into a USB port, a file explorer would appear for it. When you were finished with it, you would choose "safely remove" and the explorer window would fold away, and a balloon would pop up to tell you it was (more...)

Revert to the same "just do what you want and I'll sort it out for you" user interface used on XP.

High

Low

Not fixed

(2 comments)

15 +18/-3 votes

Cannot remove network drives

Submitted by 0x1d22 on June 16, 2008 to Annoyance, Bug

I have a network drive mapped that i wish to get rid off. I right-click and select disconnect and get the message "This network connection does not exist". Explorer shows it as disconnected but does not remove it from explorer. Is this annoying (more...)

High

Low

Not fixed

(1 comments)

14 +16/-2 votes

Non-contiguous selections do not behave as expected when items are grouped.

Submitted by eikonoklastes2 on November 30, 2008 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

Windows Explorer allows you to select non-contiguous ranges as described in the image.

However, when the items are grouped instead of sorted, Ctrl+Shift+Click does not work as it should and breaks your selection (i.e. it deselects previous (more...)

Make the selection method consistent throughout the views.

Medium

Medium

Not fixed

(1 comments)

14 +15/-1 votes

Interface flickers when explorer.exe crashes while previewing an mp3

Submitted by eikonoklastes2 on November 18, 2008 to Bug

This problem occurred when I was previewng an mp3 and Explorer crashed. You can reproduce the error by following these steps:

- Enable the Preview Pane in Explorer.
- Select an mp3 file and play it through the Preview Pane.
(more...)

Fix the bug.

Medium

Low

Not fixed

(5 comments)

14 +17/-3 votes

Opening Folder Location From Windows Search Results Converts Path To Lower Case

Submitted by aakash on October 29, 2008 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Bug, Usability

Perform a search on your computer using the small search box within Explorer at the top right corner. From the search results, right click on any folder (NOT file) and select "Open folder location". Note that the path displayed in the breadcrumb/address (more...)

Show the path using the correct upper and lower cases when using "Open folder location".

Low

Low

Not fixed

(3 comments)

14 +16/-2 votes

Window System Menu does not appear on every window button when right-clicking

Submitted by Ensign Joe on October 18, 2008 to Bug, Usability

If you left-click on the window's icon the system menu appears which gives you options to close, maximize, restore etc. the window.
The same menu appears wherever you *right*-click on the title bar of any window.
But:
If you (more...)

Either make the menu appear when right-clicking on ANY point or button or prevent it from showing up when right-clicking the minimize button.

Low

Low

Not fixed

(1 comments)

14 +14/-0 votes

Auto Hidden Taskbar Flickers After Switching User Or After Remote Desktop

Submitted by aakash on August 16, 2008 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Bug, Usability

If I log in to my work Vista computer from home using Remote Desktop, and then when I return to work, I log in, an autohidden taskbar flickers while it attempts to "reload" all of the windows and programs. The same problem occurs if I switch (more...)

Low

Low

Not fixed

14 +17/-3 votes

"My recent submissions" is showing "My popular submissions" Bug

Submitted by thenonhacker on June 14, 2008 to Bug, Website suggestion

"My recent submissions" is showing "My popular submissions", and never changes even when you click those 2 links back and forth.

A strange workaround to this bug is to:

1. Click your "Hi <UserName (more...)

Medium

Low

Fixed

(3 comments)

13 +20/-7 votes

Refresh Toolbar

Submitted by brian.shapiro on June 8, 2008 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

You can make saved search folders toolbars like with regular folders, but there's a UI quirk:--- you have a bizarre design where the search refreshes when you click the expander, and only when you click the expander. The expander is only sometimes (more...)

The simplest solution is to add "Refresh Toolbar" to the context menu. There are other solutions too, including removing saved search toolbars altogether, or just removing the refresh of the search on clicking the expander. In any case, the (more...)

Low

Low

Not fixed

(7 comments)

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