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Most recent submissions by user "Good_Bytes"

Registered since: June 4, 2008

20 +22/-2 votes

Taskbar overflow problem (Icons miss placed on buttons)

Submitted by Good_Bytes on October 31, 2008 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Bug, Usability

If you disable grouping of similar items on the task bar, and you open open a bunch of windows/programs and perform a taskbar over flow.
Read: (more...)

Adjust button alignment with the icon, on taskbar items when overflow occurs.

High

Medium

Not fixed

(2 comments)

31 +32/-1 votes

Windows Media Player 11 buttons doesn't react like in Vista when roll-over. (see video in post)

Submitted by Good_Bytes on September 21, 2008 to Aesthetics

Windows Media Player buttons roll-over state doesn't behave the same as in Vista. In Vista the glow on the buttons fade in/out when the mouse is rolled over and out, but in Windows Media Player 32 and 64-bit they just appear instantly. This occurs (more...)

Change the behavior of the buttons in Windows Media Player to match exactly the ones in Vista.

Low

Low

Not fixed

(9 comments)

33 +33/-0 votes

Cursor animation stop playing after quiting some games (on some games its the shadow)

Submitted by Good_Bytes on September 13, 2008 to Annoyance, Bug

Under Vista, in some game, like The Witcher, after you quit the game, Vista cursor stop animating. The fix (without restarting the computer)is to open the mouse panel and disable then re-enable the mouse shadow. I thought it was my system at first, but (more...)

Ensure that the cursor animation plays, after playing a game.

Medium

Low

Not fixed

(4 comments)

This submission ["Windows Security" start menu item when remote desktop to Vista machine] has been marked a duplicate of

Remote Desktop 'Windows Security' Icon

Please vote and comment on the original submission.

44 +45/-1 votes

"Windows Security" start menu item when remote desktop to Vista machine

Submitted by Good_Bytes on September 1, 2008 to Aesthetics, Icons, Legacy

If you remote desktop (with max settings) using Windows Remote Desktop from an XP or Vista to your Vista machine. The start menu is a tad different (which is normal). It has a new item called "Windows Security", which allows you to send a Ctrl+Alt+Delete (more...)

Update "Windows Security" icon on the Start menu

Medium

Low

Fixed

(4 comments)

26 +34/-8 votes

ClearType not beeing applied everywhere when chnaging to Aero theme

Submitted by Good_Bytes on July 26, 2008 to Bug

I use a high-end CRT, so actually clear type makes it harder to read text as its not sharp. So ClearType is something I turn off.
When you change theme to lets say to Windows Classic, it's all fine, ClearType is still off. But when you decide (more...)

Low

Low

Not fixed

(6 comments)

28 +31/-3 votes

Start Menu system control arrow and menu problem

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

Using Aero and the default windows Start menu, there is an a nice arrow next to the shutdown and lock Computer buttons. As it was pointed out already, the arrow button behaves strangelly. When you click on it, it doesn't shows the press state image, (more...)

Repair the arrow button on the Start Menu, and the menu that follows it when you click on it.

Low

Low

Not fixed

(3 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

30 +42/-12 votes

Date & Time Setting Panel has too much empty space

Submitted by Good_Bytes on July 26, 2008 to Aesthetics

The panel of "Date & Time Setting" is too big for the content. Their is so much empty space.

Make the panel smaller.

Low

Low

Not fixed

(8 comments)

10 +26/-16 votes

Windows Standard Theme (old style) - Volume Mixer scroll bar miss positioned

Submitted by Good_Bytes on July 26, 2008 to Aesthetics

When using Windows Standard (Windows 2000) style, the Volume Mixer has it's scroll bar miss positioned.

Position correctly the scroll bar.

Low

Low

Not fixed

(5 comments)

20 +30/-10 votes

Windows Standard Theme (old style) - Icons too close to text on menus

Submitted by Good_Bytes on July 26, 2008 to Aesthetics

I don't know about you guys, but you think the icons of all Windows menu under Windows classic (Windows 2000) style is a bit too close compared to all other version of Windows and Vista with Aero activated?

See picture

Fun (more...)

Increase the spacing between icons and text on menu items.

Low

Low

Not fixed

(5 comments)

6 +19/-13 votes

Windows Standard Theme (old style) - Diverse alignment problem in Classic style Start menu

Submitted by Good_Bytes on July 26, 2008 to Aesthetics

In Windows Standard (Windows 2000) style, the start menu has diverse alignment problem.

#1 - The "Back" button blue highlight (see picture) is not wide enough.
#2 - The program list list is positions too height OR not long (more...)

Low

Low

Not fixed

(6 comments)

-4 +17/-21 votes

Windows Standard Theme (old style) - Adress bar crumb button too thin compared to the adress bar

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

In Windows Standard theme (Windows 2000) style, the crumb address bar buttons are smaller then what they should be (see picture)

Adjust button size.

Low

Low

Not fixed

(9 comments)

8 +25/-17 votes

Windows Standard Theme (old style) - Back and Forward buttons shiftted (miss placed) when active

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

In Windows Classic (Windows 2000) style, look carefully at the arrow and the background of the back and forward button (see picture).
You can see that when either button is active the background is displaced, and gets even more shifted when you (more...)

Arrange placement of background image of the Back and Forward button in classic mode.

Low

Low

Not fixed

(6 comments)

13 +24/-11 votes

Windows Standard Theme (old style) - Window top bar inconsitancy

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

In Windows Standard theme (Windows 2000) style, their is an a consistency problem with the layout on the section where you have the address bar and the search bar.
See picture

You can see that the green button is IN the address bar (more...)

Update search icon to not make it look like a button, and decide on a style.

Low

Low

Not fixed

(5 comments)

19 +30/-11 votes

Windows Standard Theme (old style) - Exit from full screen button on window does not follow Vista style

Submitted by Good_Bytes on July 26, 2008 to Icons

If you set Windows to Standard Theme (you know the Windows 2000 or older Style), and you press F11 on a folder to make it full screen. You have an "exit full screen" button on the top right most corner of your screen. This button does not follow (more...)

Update icon on button to match the new icon theme.

Low

Low

Not fixed

(4 comments)

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