Windows 7 Taskforce

Force Safe Mode to use Windows Classic theme

Submitted by nyp on April 6, 2009 to Annoyance

Problem: In Safe Mode, it uses the Aero Basic theme. HOWEVER, Themes service is disabled. That means you get to experience one of the most hideous themes ever designed.

Solution: Force Safe Mode to use Windows Classic theme.

Severity: Low

Impact: Medium

Status: Fixed

(1 comments)

ScrollBar in windows explorer preview pane needs fixing

Submitted by agent11 on April 2, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Bug

Problem: The scrollBar is cut off too short.

Solution: Fix the posisoning of the scrollBar so its not cut off.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Fixed

Can't drag folder into Program Files

Submitted by charge01 on January 20, 2009 to Annoyance, Bug

Problem: when drag folder into Program Files folder it's show folder working in other application
http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n105/charge01/folder.jpg

Solution: use Copy/cut by right click menu or keyboard shortcut

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Fixed

(3 comments)

Leftover HTML Comment on Taskforce Site

Submitted by ryanlm on January 18, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance

Problem: See Photo

Solution: Fix Oops

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Fixed

(6 comments)

Combine when Taskbar is full buggy in Aero Basic.

Submitted by hoopla_punta on January 18, 2009 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

Problem: With the above option selected in Aero Basic, the taskbar goes awfully buggy like in the screenshot.

The Window List still appears (someone tell me what is it called, since there a no previews, they aren't called Live Previews). That (more...)

Solution: Fix the bugs, include the suggestion.

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Fixed

Fixed in build 7057.

(2 comments)

When dragging icon from start menu to desktop the icon always appear in the top left corner of desktop brieftly.

Submitted by Zerlot on December 15, 2008 to Annoyance, Bug

Problem: When dragging icon from start menu to desktop the icon always appear in the top left corner of desktop brieftly.

Solution: Fix the bug

Severity: Medium

Impact: Low

Status: Fixed

(6 comments)

[fixed] Aero Peek: no difference between opened and previewed windows

Submitted by tino on January 22, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Usability

Problem: Aero Peek is very usefull. But sometimes I "lost" a window because I forgot to click on the thumbnail preview in the taskbar. This is because there is no difference between a "real" opened active window and the Aero Peek preview.

Solution: Provide a different design for window previews by:

a. Use the taskbar hottrack color on the glass border or
b. Use a 5% transparency or
c. ...?

Severity: Low

Impact: Medium

Status: Fixed

(5 comments)

Crazy White Background still in Aero Basic 7000!

Submitted by hoopla_punta on January 18, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Bug

Problem: There is a white background in the text of the search box. Its ugly.

Solution: Get rid of it.

Severity: High

Impact: Low

Status: Fixed

Fixed in Build 7057.

(10 comments)

Gadget Menue...hovered item misses 1 line at the top...

Submitted by bluefisch200 on May 9, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance

Problem: If you hover an gadget in the menue, the part arround the gadget misses the top line of pixels...

Solution: Fix it

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Fixed

[WEBSITE] Create "Website" category

Submitted by limulus on April 8, 2009 to Annoyance, Website suggestions

Problem: It seems that about one in ten suggestions on windows7taskforce.com is a suggestion that concerns the WEBSITE rather than Windows 7.

This is not what the suggestion system was created for; it interferes with Windows suggestions. Also, some (more...)

Solution: Create a "website" category where all suggestions for the windows7taskforce.com website go. Delete all newly posted site suggestions that don't have the category set (or, less strict, set the category for them).

Also, add (more...)

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Fixed

<FIXED>Hiding/showing menu bar in Media Player doesn't work right [7068]

Submitted by nitrous9200 on April 6, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Bug, Usability

Problem: Fixed in the RC.
If you hide and/or show the title bar in Media Player (control-M or right click top area), the secondary vertical bar showing the "Organize", "Stream" and "Create playlists" buttons seems to disappear, (more...)

Solution: Make the title bar hide and show properly like in previous betas, WMP11, etc etc.

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Fixed

What to know before installing Windows in DVD help file is Windows Vista

Submitted by hoopla_punta on January 18, 2009 to Annoyance, Legacy, Usability

Problem: Clicking on it for the help gives you a Windows Vista one. OMG.

Solution: Its Beta already. Fix it.

Severity: High

Impact: Medium

Status: Fixed

(2 comments)

Open WMP over preview pane opens a second WMP instance on the superbar(x64 only)

Submitted by bluefisch200 on August 21, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Bug

Problem: 1. Pin WMP to your superbar
2. Open Explorer
3. Navigate to a Music File
4. Open Preview Pane
5. Play the song for some seconds
6. Press the arrow(open in WMP) in the control of the Preview Pane

Reproduced (more...)

Solution: Fix it

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Fixed

EPG in WMC

Submitted by wierd101 on July 27, 2009 to Annoyance, Usability

Problem: Windows media center is unable to retrieve program information from the epg data that is broadcast with DVB-T in australia (most likely all countries). On digital televisions this data covers up to the next 24hrs of programs.

Solution: Allow users to select this as the source of broadcast information instead of relying on a download service that is not available for most areas. It would much improve the ability to record live television and find out what is on.

Severity: Low

Impact: Medium

Status: Fixed

Must be my tuner

Dynamic audio output switching. (FIXED AND REMOVED)

Submitted by fluxtras on July 16, 2009 to Annoyance, Usability

Problem: Dynamic audio switching didn't work in Vista.. but works in Windows7.

Though i would still rather get a pop-up of the device change. Now it just does it with following applications, not with current. Sometimes you just plug in a device (more...)

Solution: fixed

How do I completely remove this post?

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Fixed

Dynamic audio switching works within Winamp as well.

Context menu on sound icon- playback device- dynamic (on the fly) switching works.

Sorry Indrek.