Most recent submissions by user ".Chris"
Registered since: June 3, 2008
checking for updates in photo gallery shows media player icon in taskbar
NOTE: I already know of whats hapening in windows 7 and the programs and such. This is just to let microsoft know of a bug they failed to fix in the development of vista. I also know that there will never be an update to Windows photo gallery (live verson (more...)
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<website> Long: We need your word: are all three taskforce sites for more then just "UI" bugs
Many people here rate down, or put down peoples ideas because its "not an UI bug". I understand that this started out as a blog post to report UI bugs, then the site came and more general feedback came in. So it was changed to "user experience (more...)
Give your word. What do you expect us to post. Please do so, so we can just stop this bickering "this is a sugestion. this site is for UI quarks" getting sick of that.
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Actully READ the topic, dont vote because the title
Many of you people go off and vote because the title. dont, thats just immature and stupid. READ the ENTIRE topic first. Topic may be good, but people who become lazy and chose to demote it are just making them selvses look bad
also many (more...)
READ the ENITRE topic!
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Create a windows 7 taskforce
latest news says windows 7 will be named windows 7
http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/...oducing-windows-7.aspx
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Services settings features older icons
This takes some digging. You first have to go to the services and right click on one of the services and chose propties. Click on the last tab and you are presented with an older 9x icon
some may feature diferent icons so watch out...
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installing fonts diolog box
When you click and drag a font in to the fonts window, you are presented with an old 9x progress bar.
update to vista era with the glossy green light
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Alow all file names
Currently we cant use file names that contrain:
/\:*?"<>
Why? Some dumb coding thats still stuck in windows since the early 3.1 days? Alow us to use ANY file name we want. Dont stop be comes some air head at (more...)
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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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Multiple users: Removing shared programs's SHORTCUTS from desktop removes it from all other desktops
We have two users on one of our computers. I removed "msn" from the desktop on my account and it actully removed it from the desktop on the other (original one user account). This shouldnt happen. Ifg I want to remove a program like msn from (more...)
Keep everything seprate when it comes to this sort of situaion.
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give taskforce user "bearluke" a time out
I'm not looking to cause any trouble here but many users here on taskforce including my self are really getting ticked off with bearluke. I think he needs some time away from taskforce to think about what he's doing. I have no problem with (more...)
temperary disable bearlukes account (min. 7-14 days) if he comes back withbthe same attatude then ban him. I know it's harsh but like I said first time visitors who joined left because his attatude scared them off.
We all want a place (more...)
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Bring back the old Sidebar from the 4xxx bulids and intergrate it in to the so called "superbar"
I'm surprised this hasn't been brought up. If you followed the vista development from the start you would have known a feature that first apeared in the late 3xxx to early 4xxx bulids. It was the Windows Sidebar, but it wasnt like it it is now. (more...)
How does this look like mac? Its 2008, we need intervention we need style. Longhorn PROVED that but Jim Ankin or whgat ever his name is decide to start from scratch and now we got vista. Come on now.....
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Reduce the name "windows" in the programs
In Vista, almost every single program has the name "windows" in it. For Windows 7, please reduce the name "windows" You dont need to say "windows media player" Just say "media player" You dont need to say "windows (more...)
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Single disc for upgrade/clean install (see discription bellow)
while you can do this now there are still the "upgrade" discs as well as the "Full verson" discs. If you can already do both from one disc what's the need for the options I just mentoned?
stick with one disc with both options. Not the 2 I mentoned above
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Log in screen difers on 100 DPI then on opthers
When you set your DPI to 100 the log in screen displays users from top to bottom. All other DPI settings it is from left to right.
fix the DPI settings for the log in screen at 100
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