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Registered since: June 3, 2008

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In addition to "promote" and "demote", add an option for "abstain"

Submitted by npiaseck on June 18, 2008 to Website suggestion

There are some suggestions that affect parts of Windows that I don't use frequently or don't care to verify for myself. Therefore, I just have no interest in them.

Rather than polluting the suggestion pool by promoting these entries arbitrarily, it would be nice (even if as an option on the main suggestion page instead of the list view) to have the option to "abstain," which would remove the entry from (more...)

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Under review

(9 comments)

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60 +67/-7 votes
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Windows Installer resets the progress bar several times during installation

Submitted by npiaseck on June 13, 2008 to Aesthetics, Annoyance

Native Windows Installer (MSI) progress dialogs displays a progress bar and a Current Action label. In several years of watching these progress bars, the percentage of the progress bar (which resets to zero several times during installation) does not (more...)

Provide better default dialogs, since the defaults are what developers will use most of the time.

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Low

Not fixed

(10 comments)

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562 +594/-32 votes
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Safely Remove Hardware dialog is programmer-oriented, not user-oriented

Submitted by npiaseck on June 3, 2008 to Annoyance, Usability

Overly complex, hostile dialog is painful when your computer comes with one of those 6-in-1 card readers (as does mine), an external hard drive, and a USB thumb drive. Unchecking “display device components” leaves unhelpful, undistinguishable entries. (more...)

Add the drive letters, add the device names, and get rid of all the worthless tree-level stuff; it’s a programmer’s view, not a user’s view.

In 2008, we no longer need to be calling these things a "USB Mass Storage Device."

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Medium

Fixed

(41 comments)

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