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33 +34/-1 votes

Do not steal keyclicks when asking user to reboot or postpone windows updates

Submitted by dsmtoday on January 22, 2010 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

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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(14 comments)

32 +33/-1 votes

A quick and simple way to change the Start Menu size

Submitted by blueduck12 on January 26, 2010 to Usability

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

Low

Low

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(10 comments)

24 +25/-1 votes

Missing button - Destination path too long

Submitted by Beun on January 17, 2010 to Usability

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.

Medium

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(11 comments)

24 +27/-3 votes

adjustable wallpaper cropping

Submitted by blueduck12 on January 14, 2010 to Usability

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

Low

Low

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(11 comments)

23 +25/-2 votes

Resize and Skew in paint has legacy icons

Submitted by .Chris on January 10, 2010 to Aesthetics, Legacy, Usability

In Paint, the resize and skew dialog has old legacy icons and the over all design is old.

Low

Low

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(3 comments)

22 +29/-7 votes

The side pane should disappear in small windows

Submitted by blueduck12 on January 14, 2010 to Annoyance, Usability

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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Low

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(9 comments)

21 +23/-2 votes

Rollup-able Notes

Submitted by n49o7 on January 24, 2010 to Usability

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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(5 comments)

21 +22/-1 votes

Prevent focus stealing while in the act of typing

Submitted by AllUltima on January 23, 2010 to Annoyance, Usability

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...)

Medium

Medium

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(3 comments)

21 +22/-1 votes

Teach Speech Recognition

Submitted by Nivekv on January 15, 2010 to Annoyance, Usability

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...)

Medium

Medium

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(2 comments)

21 +22/-1 votes

Aero peek should outline non-aero windows

Submitted by blueduck12 on January 14, 2010 to Bug

windows that do not use aero aern't shown during aero peek
its just a consistency thing

Low

Low

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(9 comments)

20 +22/-2 votes

Icon Stay

Submitted by SuperGenius on February 4, 2010 to Annoyance

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.

Medium

Low

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(1 comments)

20 +21/-1 votes

Remove bookmarks from the bookmark toolbar with out being asked are you sure? (IE)

Submitted by .Chris on January 22, 2010 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Usability

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"

(more...)

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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Low

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(3 comments)

20 +22/-2 votes

Games Folder's Details Pane resizes oddly.

Submitted by veer01_42 on January 12, 2010 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Usability

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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Medium

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It was fine in Vista. How the hell did they botch this up?

(13 comments)

20 +22/-2 votes

Redundant discontinuous selection box

Submitted by W7X64USER on January 11, 2010 to Aesthetics, Bug, Icons, Legacy

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.

Low

Low

Not fixed

(6 comments)

19 +20/-1 votes

minimizing and previewing sticky notes

Submitted by blueduck12 on January 24, 2010 to Usability

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
(more...)

Low

Low

Not fixed

(4 comments)

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