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Do not steal keyclicks when asking user to reboot or postpone windows updates
I ran Windows Update today. It wanted to reboot my machine, so it popped up a box asking me if I wanted to reboot or postpone 10 minutes. I ignored it (meaning I didn't click postpone or anything else), instead clicked on Firefox, and continued (more...)
Do not ever steal focus by bringing this window to the foreground, which will end up stealing keyclicks intended for another application. Just make it activate a blinking icon in the toolbar or something, like it does when something needs process elevation.
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A quick and simple way to change the Start Menu size
i think its a bit ridiculous that i have to go to the settings just to resize the start menu,
where as with a window i can just grab a side or corner
and many new users haven't realized that you can change change the size
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provide a similar resizing method to resizing windows
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Missing button - Destination path too long
When a file is being copied but the filename becomes too long, windows tells you this. However, windows does not give you the option to rename the files, it only gives the option to skip or cancel the copying of these files.
Add the option to rename these files.
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adjustable wallpaper cropping
i wish i didn't have to open the image i want as a wallpaper in an image editor just to crop it
make it available to scale and rotate the image desired to be the wallpaper in the personalization options
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Resize and Skew in paint has legacy icons
In Paint, the resize and skew dialog has old legacy icons and the over all design is old.
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The side pane should disappear in small windows
in any control panel option, when the window is small the side pane still appears and blocks out some of the content
minimize the side pane when the window is too small
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Rollup-able Notes
The screen space gets obscured pretty quickly as soon as you have a few notes lying around. And this gets worse as the screen resolution decreases.
Make it so that right-clicking on a note's bar (the part that contains the + and the X) rolls it up, like it's been done for ages in many window managers.
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Prevent focus stealing while in the act of typing
It can be very annoying when something steals focus away from what you are doing. The worst case for me is typing, where, for example, another window opens and suddenly my keystrokes are being input into a new window.
Add a setting in Keyboard control panel called "Prevent lost focus when typing X quickly" with a slider.
I think that if this were implemented thoughtfully, (for example requiring a certain number of letters to be typed before (more...)
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Teach Speech Recognition
Speech Recognition is great, but when it doesn't do what you want, there is no way to correct it.
Allow users to say "Teach it" or something like that and then go into a wizard where you say the phrase that Speech Recognition misunderstood, like "Start Skype," and then show it what to do, double click Skype.exe OR run program: (more...)
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Aero peek should outline non-aero windows
windows that do not use aero aern't shown during aero peek
its just a consistency thing
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Icon Stay
It is extremely annoying to have rearrange icons after resolution changes.
Icon's should have a save/automatic restore feature for each resolution. Iconoid is a solution to a problem that shouldn't exist.
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Remove bookmarks from the bookmark toolbar with out being asked are you sure? (IE)
The bookmark bar, to me is like a short cut to the actual boookmarks side pannel/folder. There should be no reason why it always has to ask you "are you sure you want to move "_________________________" to the recycle bin"
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Eirther remove it, or give us an option to "now show this message"
also, update the dialog. It does not follow aero guidelines.
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Games Folder's Details Pane resizes oddly.
This prob is super hard to explain so bear with me on this one.
1. Open Games Folder from start menu.
2. Resize the WINDOW until it is the length of the screen, Height doesn't matter.
3. Set the DETAILS PANE to the center (more...)
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It was fine in Vista. How the hell did they botch this up?
Redundant discontinuous selection box
After using copy (Crtl+C), move (Crtl+M), etc. in desktop a rendundant selection box will appear in desktop giving a legacy, aestetycal and sometimes confusing appearence to desktop. This only happens with desktop not explorer windows or open/save dialogs.
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minimizing and previewing sticky notes
it would be nice to be able to tuck away notes (all or individual notes) where they wont obsure desktop space as well as keeping it easy to view them
(its explained in the image)
this idea was adapted from: http://www.windows7taskforce.com/view/3689#comment
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