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Old mouse pointers everywhere in Vista
Specially when you drag items to some programs, try dragging a textfile over notepad: Nice shadowed new Vista pointer vanishes and appear a legacy 3.11 Windows mouse pointer
Update resources or make it non "hardcoded"
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Windows Media Player Dialogs are wrong
No Aero style, difficult to understand, frustrating (especially the one with “plugins disabled because of incorrect program exit” with no option to reenable all *waah* - somtimes you have to kill WMP because after explorer.exe restart you can’t (more...)
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Paint MUST be replaced
Stock Paint application is outdated, feature-limited, ugly and must be thrown away from the modern operating system environment.
Replace Paint with more sophisticated application. Paint.NET looks very promising.
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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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Regedit does not show active registry folder
When searching in Regedit, in Windows XP you can see a different icon for "opened" folder in the lateral registry tree. In Vista is nearly impossible to know what registry contents you're viewing (it's possible only looking at status (more...)
Use another icon for "opened" registry folder
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Changing Glass Color does not change Blue Outline
When you change the color of glass to something else besides the default - everything changes accordingly except the outer border of a window. I almost forgot about this one, I just stopped changing the color, it looked terrible.
Color the line based on the selected color. Did I really need to type this :)
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You can't close menus in the command bar
It is not possible to close menus like "Organize" in Windows Explorer or "File" in Windows Photo Gallery by clicking on them a second time. This is really annoying because to close them, you deselect your files by clicking on another (more...)
A second click should close a menu (as it does before).
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Search UI
Still amazingly hard to find and read the results from the OS Search. The UI is so terrible, I never find myself going beyond the basic Start Menu search. Its even hard to get to the advanced search, if you can call it that.
Do not make explorer do everything, or at least do it better. View the screenshot below from the competitor that was out of the gate years earlier. So much cleaner, easy to use, and you can stack several filters together easily.
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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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Notepad: Allow infinite Undo/Redo.
In notepad, you can undo/redo only the most recent change.
In something as simple as a text editor, there is NO excuse for not allowing the user to undo/redo an infinite number of changes.
Implement infinite undo/redo.
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Why is there no album cover?
There should be the album cover shown in the media player when minimized to the taskbar.
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File-open dialog lies: "This folder is empty"
The standard File-open dialog states "This folder is empty" when there are no files matching the filetype filter. Even when the folder isn't empty.
Change the filter to one that matches some files and magically the folder (more...)
Please don't lie. Only say "This folder is empty" when the folder is empty.
When there are hidden items, say "This folder contains no files of the chosen type".
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Drop the 16 color selection
Many apps such as word pad, and even the newer ones like snip tool still use the 16 color selections. Word pad you can only chose between 16 font colors and snip tool, a tool that was created in the 21st century has 16 colors for the selection?
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allow us to chose more colors with in an updated color picker
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Allow users the ability to add the option to view FOLDER sizes in Explorer
In any Windows version, the OS does not allow you the option of view folder sizes in the Explorer windows. I don't know how many times I've seen this mentioned on forums and help sites: people want this option!
Regardless of whether this takes up resources or not, allow the user to choose to view this: it's their resources to allocate as they wish!
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