Most recent submissions in 'Annoyance'
MMC's "Customize View" dialog doesn't respond to "X" or ESC
The close button (red "X" in top right) on this dialog doesn't do anything, neither does pressing escape.
There is no easy way to cancel the changes you have made using this dialog. Or to kill it.
Make escape and the close button work. Maybe add a cancel button.
Hopefully this will be replaced completely in the hopefull MMC overhaul. :D
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Low
Fixed
Start Menu power options tooltip is too long
When you hover over a power button in the start menu, the tooltip displays on one long line. Hover over a tooltip elsewhere and Windows automatically displays it on two or more lines. It's inconsistent.
Display the tooltip on multiple lines when it is too long, it only seems to be the power buttons affected by this weird issue.
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Low
Not fixed
Wireless settings on flash drive uses XP era icon
When you save your wireless network settings on a flash drive, the icon for the flash drive changes to a flash drive with a signal comming out of it. Problem is, the icon is from the XP era.
update the icon to vista era
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Low
Not fixed
Windows Installer: add API to automatically search for updates and install them (notify but don't install by default for security reasons)
Windows Installer is a good package system, but it doesn't support application updates.
Add new APIs to Windows Installer, and integrate them with Windows Update (as a separate category). The applications should not check for new versions on startup via UI, but this should be automatically done (and the user should be able to choose for (more...)
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Medium
Not fixed
Stop THREE prompts to delete a folder in the Start Menu
One delete prompt is quite enough for anything thank you!
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Not fixed
Launching an Office 2007 program by double clicking file opens 2 windows
When you open up any kind of Office 2007 file, let's say an Excel file, by double clicking the file's icon, it will launch the file as well as an empty Excel window. This only happens when Excel is not running before you double click the file.
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Low
Not fixed
Remember the stack by tags option in Explorer
Vista will remember, usually anyway, the sort and group by options you set for a folder. If you tell it to stack by tags though, which I now use a lot, it won't ever remember this folder view.
Medium
High
Not fixed
Allow customisation of the Lock button on the Start menu
I've changed my Sleep button to Shut down and want to change my lock button to something more useful like Restart.
I've been using Vista since it was in an early beta and I've never pushed this button once!
Medium
High
Not fixed
Put the 'Search' button back into the Start Menu
This might have been done to placate Microsoft's rivals, okay Google, but PLEASE can you at least give users the option to add this button back in if they really want it!?
Also whatever happened to all the advanced search by options (more...)
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Medium
Not fixed
On Shutdown, programs that require user prompt difficult to get to.
The "These programs are still running:" screen on shutdown is nice, but unfortunately it appears too quickly and can cause problems. This screen is usually encountered when a program has a file open and prompts the user if they want to save (more...)
Windows should at the least have a "wait" option on the "These programs are still running" screen to give the user a chance to take action while allowing the shutdown process to resume. Ideally, Windows could detect that a program (more...)
Medium
Medium
Not fixed
Unknown WMC Search
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...)
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Medium
Not fixed
Explorer in 3rd party program's Open Dialog Box
The problem is Vista's Windows Explorer, when accessed through a program when opening a file, will continually forget Explorer's Folder View Settings.
For instance, when using Gmail with Firefox, attaching a file will open explorer, (more...)
Medium
Medium
Not fixed
When editing an own comment edit box disappears and it takes some time to reappear
Whenever you want to edit a comment you posted to a submission and you double-click for the entry enabling you to edit it the box disappears and - especially if it's the last comment to the topic you're going to modify - you start typing into (more...)
At least show a "processing" label that states the page is working.
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Low
Will fix
This will be fixed when the site is migrated to use the Here's an idea system.
Start Menu does not load icons in advance
If you open a Start Menu folder you didn't recently open Vista takes time to load all the icons of the entries. (See picture)
Make Vista load the icons of *all* Start Menu entries in advance and just check for changes if neccessary.
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Low
Not fixed
Internet Explorer: middle-clicking a tab should blank the page, IF it is the ONLY tab.
The minimum number of open tabs in IE is one. For example, if you have three tabs, you can close two of them with a middle click, but if you middle-click the last one nothing happens.
I know, you can always close the browser or type a new URL that (more...)
When a user middle-clicks (or tries to close) the only left tab, it should be blanked (about:blank).
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Not fixed