Most popular submissions in 'Annoyance' for the past 3 months
Run window should have "Run as administrator" checkbox
"Run" used to be the "quick and dirty" way to run stuff FAST (i.e. I could Run cmd and get a command prompt). But under UAC I typically need an ELEVATED command prompt, which requires me to find/make an elevated shortcut for. If it (more...)
Add "Run as Administrator" in the Run Window under the Open: [path] combo-box. Require the user to manually toggle the box for security reasons consistent with UAC.
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Medium
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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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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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Medium
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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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Low
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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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Low
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Windows Photo Viewer decreases quality and size of files when rotated
When you rotate an image in Windows Photo Viewer it overwrites the previous file with one of lower quality. For example, a file that was origionally 76,470 bytes in size is decreased to 60,129 bytes after a single rotate and 59,889 bytes after 3 rotates. (more...)
Use the orientation attribute in the EXIF data to store rotation information and render appropriatley.
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High
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Include black version of the Vista-style Aero cursors
The current black color cursors are the old-style from pre-Vista. They aren't anti-aliased unlike the white aero cursors.
Update them, so they're like the new anti-aliased cursors introduced in Vista, but have them black.
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Low
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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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Medium
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It was fine in Vista. How the hell did they botch this up?
Please stop with the non-resizable windows
Not even the startmenu is resizable. Or the properties of the start menu.
But there are thousends of windows wich lack the abillity to resize so i can at least read the what's written on it.
IF a scrollbar appears a window should be sizeable.
I know every window has the oppertunity to enable or disable the sizebuttons (at design time).
But if a scrollbar appears it should be at least overuled by the user.
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High
Not fixed
Hotkeys to show/hide file extensions and hidden files
When you want to quickly show the file extensions in explorer ... you can't. You have to go through all these menus and all. Same goes for hidden files. (See also http://www.windows7taskforce.com/view/2551)
Assign a hotkey to each of these features. (Although I realize that there's a difference between hidden and superhidden - hidden files and system files)
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High
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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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Low
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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...)
Medium
Medium
Not fixed
Allow windows snapped to sides to be grouped
When working with multiple windows (usually explorer windows snapped to the sides, in my case) switching back from a third window such as internet explorer is annoying. You have to restore each explorer window seperately, when the whole point of being (more...)
Allow users to group side by side windows together to maximize, minimize, and close together, possibly by clicking each title bar (blue bar on top) while holding shift and then either right clicking one of the title bars or pressing key combo winkey + (more...)
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Navigational Tree Heirarchy doesn't side scroll to allow visibility of text
When using the navigation pane to the left of the explorer window i noticed that when i got into really deep tree hierarchies, i wasn't able to scroll to the side to see the given folder. Not only that, but the auto centre that was introduced in (more...)
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CD Error when Autolaunch program still active & CD ejected
When an autostarted program is active after you inserted a CD with Autoplay, and then you eject the CD without ending the program and then try to end/continue program the error notification pops up, telling you (correctly) that the CD i s missing.
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Make the dialog supreme and if I click Cancel that means the CD is not there so end the program.
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