Most recent submissions by user "Ensign Joe"
Registered since: June 10, 2008
Allow window resizing and moving be canceled by right-click
Often you happen to accidently drag or resize a window or you just wanna see what's behind...
Do it like in paint if you click right while still holding the left mouse button to drag or resize, cancel the operation and restore the window's original position and size.
(hm whoops... I actually wanted this to go to Windows 7 taskforce)
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Little "invisible gap" between window buttons
If you use Aero Basic (not the 3D-acceleratet sh*t) and you hover the close button and move your mouse to the left slowly and pause between the close and maximize/restore button the close button will still be in hovered state and react on your click. (more...)
Close that gap between the Minimize and Maximize button
(Note: This does only apply to AERO BASIC!!!)
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Window System Menu does not appear on every window button when right-clicking
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.
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Editing Media Library using keyboard shortcurts impossible
If you want to reorganize your Media Library you might think you can edit the entries like in Explorer using the F2 key. And indeed this works.
BUT:
Media Player only allows you to edit the Track number (which no one will ever edit) if you (more...)
Automatically select the track title when pressing F2 instead of the track number or - better - select the entry the user clicked on with the mous and then if he presses F2 edit it.
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Set program access and computer defaults has no UAC icon
If you choose "Default programs" from your start menu and click on the "Set program access and computer defaults" link in the appearing Explorer window UAC suddenly pops up and interrupts you. There was no UAC icon.
Add a UAC shield to that icon or replace that green tick with the UAC icon
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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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Will fix
This will be fixed when the site is migrated to use the Here's an idea system.
Aero Basic sucks
All the Windows Live apps draw their window titles themselves and even under XP draw they all Aero style buttons in their title bar (Close, etc.)
But Vista itself uses this ugly Basic style.
Make the Aero Basic theme look like the default Aero theme.
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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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Start Menu does not fade in
If you click on the start orb the Start Menu instantly appears, it does not fade in.
This issue was already present in Windows XP and the cause might be that the Start Menu is a complete window instead of a simple menu as the others are.
The (more...)
Make the Start Menu fade in when the user clicks on the Start Orb.
Also the Orb should fade in like the Play/Pause button in WMP or the Slideshow one in Photo Gallery
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Merge reg file has no UAC elevation icon
If you have a .reg file to merge into your registry you click on it and UAC prompts you for your permission.
Neither the file itself nor the menu entry "merge" do have a UAC elevation shield icon
Also the reg file icon (more...)
Place the UAC shield at least into the contextmenu next to the "Merge" entry.
Also replace the icon with a Vista like one
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Windows Media Player has no button to toggle "Always on top"
If I watch a movie and work with an application during that I always have to open the menu, choose "Extras" and then Properties and then check the option "Keep Media Player in front of other windows" and click OK in order that Media (more...)
Add a "Always on top" button into the title bar of Media Player. Maybe next to the minimize/maximize/close buttons.
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Zipped folders still do not act like normal folders
In Windows Me Microsoft introduced the ability to open Zip files like normal folders. And this feature was crap.
In Vista still those folders don't act like normal folders.
1. The context menu does not offer you to create a (more...)
1. Add the "New file" context menu entry to the contextmenu of the zipped folder
2. Let the user create and put empty files in the zip folder.
And please integrate the CAB-file extension in the same way as the zip one.
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No instant search in Notepad/Wordpad
There is no search bar in Notepad or Wordpad.
So always if you search for something in Notepad or Wordpad, you type Strg+F and this old-fashioned search dialog appears that even asks for a DIRECTION.
So, if you just entered some kind of (more...)
Just add a search bar into the icon bar that acts like this one in firefox...
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Logging on is very annoying if an error occurrs
if you try to log on to Vista and have a typo in your password, Vista still "trys" to log you on and then says "Unable to logon" and forces you to press OK to go back to the log on screen.
The same issue if you are not allowed (more...)
Just do it like XP always did. Make a baloon pop up and not say "Logging on" or "Welcome" and shortly afterwars interrupt the user. Just do not start logging in and say "Password wrong" right away...
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