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Most recent submissions by user "icecone"

Registered since: June 12, 2008

6 +15/-9 votes

Public Vote for Severity or Impact

Submitted by icecone on December 5, 2008 to Website suggestion

Right now we can only vote for or against a submission, and that's all
However the no. of promotes - demotes does not tell how serious the problem is, it just shows how many people have read it or whether people have read it properly or not.

If we vote for it, we should have a severity level to choose from, 1,2,3,4 or 5.
and a way to sort submissions according to their level or severity

High

High

Rejected

(3 comments)

29 +33/-4 votes

Live messenger opens IE regardless of the default browser

Submitted by icecone on October 11, 2008 to Annoyance

(Unless your default email client is MS Outlook or something else)
When you press the press email button, Live messenger opens IE regardless of the default browser
I have had enough of this, if MS insists on having a crap browser, fine, (more...)

Opens the default browser.

High

High

Not fixed

(6 comments)

20 +31/-11 votes

Out-of-the box experience

Submitted by icecone on September 24, 2008 to Annoyance, Usability

Okay, you've got your copy of Vista, and installing it happily.... DONE! YEAH....wait, WTF?
My computer is in danger?
I need to get an anti-virus software?

No other OS on earth will ever say that.
(Yes you can (more...)

If you think windows is more dangerous, fix the security holes please.
If you think it's secure, remove the message please


(I'm using vista without anti-virus and it's running really well)

Note: (more...)

High

High

Not fixed

(15 comments)

7 +18/-11 votes

32/64bit? OEM/Retail? Languages? Education?

Submitted by icecone on September 19, 2008 to Annoyance

There are over thousand of versions of Vista

5 main versions: (Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, Ultimate). My complaint is NOT here. Although I'd rather they have 1 or 2, I think they have 5 for marketing reasons. (more...)

Have the 64bit version in the box. (64bit should be the majority in the win7 era)
No more silly OEM and Retail version please.
Multilingual version.
Higher availability of academic version.

High

High

Not fixed

(16 comments)

-26 +5/-31 votes

Why does Aquataskforce look so much better?

Submitted by icecone on September 15, 2008 to Website suggestion

Aquataskforce looks better than aerotaskforce, even when vista looks better than Mac OS X
Of course beauty belongs the eye of a beholder

Make aerotaskforce better looking

Low

Low

Not fixed

(4 comments)

29 +38/-9 votes

XPS viewer doesn't work if IE is not the default browser.

Submitted by icecone on September 15, 2008 to Annoyance, Bug, Legacy, Usability

XPS viewer doesn't work if IE is not the default browser.

In fact, there isn't an XPS viewer in Vista although it's listed in the program list.
It just opens the default browser. (IE can handle .xps, but others can't)

Make XPS viewer an independent program, like Adobe Reader.

High

High

Not fixed

(16 comments)

33 +33/-0 votes

Gadgets "close button" misposition before/after MOVE

Submitted by icecone on September 15, 2008 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Bug

The first time you move a gadget after it's started, the "close button menu" will be shifted to the right.

Solve it, don't move the menu

High

Low

Not fixed

44 +45/-1 votes

Left click menu of Safely Remove Hardware floats

Submitted by icecone on September 15, 2008 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

When you left click the Safely Remove Hardware in tray and move the cursor to somewhere else, the menu appears at the cursor, but NOT at the icon

This does not occur on other tray icons, like WLM.

Show the menu AT the icon, no matter where the cursor is.

High

Medium

Not fixed

(3 comments)

-61 +8/-69 votes

Discontinue IE, inbuilt firefox

Submitted by icecone on August 20, 2008 to Annoyance, Usability

Okay, it may sounds ridiculous
But that's the best solution
IE is way too user-unfriendly, i can post dozens of submissions on it.
(Yellow bar before download, lack to download manager....)
(More technically: the problem (more...)

To solve the problems completely, discontinue IE, built-in firefox in the next version of windows
Firefox is free software and everyone can distribute it
You can rename it to Firefox - Microsoft edition whatsoever...

High

High

Not fixed

(13 comments)

-12 +9/-21 votes

Popularity based on the percentage of promotes

Submitted by icecone on June 12, 2008 to Website suggestion

A suggestion with 200 promotes and 50 demotes does not actually mean it's popular, and one with 30 promotes and no demotes should be more popular, but probability its just less read.

Add a way to sort the submissions based on the percentage of promotes.
Of course, in order to avoid having those with 1 votes being counted as 100%, filter out those with less than 10 (or 20) votes when sorted this way.

High

Low

Rejected

(5 comments)

16 +16/-0 votes

Windows Media Player - Playlist Playing

Submitted by icecone on June 12, 2008 to Annoyance, Usability

1 - When you double click a playlist in WMP11, it always plays the first song first, even if you selected SHUFFLE
2 - If you have selected a playlist in the library, and then click the big "PLAY" button underneath, it's not playing (more...)

1 - randomly play a song if SHUFFLE is selected
2 - play from the playlist if the user is viewing the playlist

High

Low

Not fixed

(1 comments)

32 +34/-2 votes

Backup Files

Submitted by icecone on June 12, 2008 to Usability

Now, the backup centre backups files based on the file types.
if you want to backup your a .PDF, you backup all the documents type files in the drive, even in the programs file.
if you just want to backup your "document" folder, (more...)

Allow users to choose the directory to backup
Allow users to enter the extensions

High

Low

Not fixed

(4 comments)

32 +44/-12 votes

Black Screen / Flickers before and after a UAC prompt

Submitted by icecone on June 12, 2008 to Annoyance

It's obvious, just before and after a UAC prompt, the screen turns black.
It's annoying and hurts your eyes.
If your computer isn't fast enough, the monitor just stays black for a few seconds and some people might even thought (more...)

Do not turn the screen black before and after a UAC prompt

High

Low

Not fixed

(7 comments)

45 +50/-5 votes

Games Explorer

Submitted by icecone on June 12, 2008 to Bug, Usability

Occasionally it automaticcally changes the way it's viewed and sorted when it is opened, usually changes to "Details", sorted by "last played".
And worst of all, the game you last played is on the BOTTOM of the list

remember how it is sorted last time it is used!

Medium

Low

Not fixed

(4 comments)

93 +96/-3 votes

Links duplicated and not in order in the "Save as" window

Submitted by icecone on June 12, 2008 to Aesthetics

By default, "computer" is not present in the links folder, but it's present in the save as window.
If we add it so it can be found in explorer, then it will be duplicated in the save as window.
Also, the links in the Save (more...)

Either of these will work
1) check for duplicates and resort them
2) use only those in the links folder as in explorer

Medium

Low

Not fixed

(2 comments)

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