Most popular submissions in 'Usability' are 'Not fixed' of all time
Wordpad Spellcheck
Wordpad desperatly needs a spell check...woth todays im's/phone texting and what not...the fate of the gramatically correct world rests on proper spelling. The world might literally go to shambles if this feature isnt implemented into Windows Seven. (more...)
I think your guys proably know how to code this into wordpad so i dont need to go into further detail.
P.S. and when your done with that can you shoot around the possibility of maybe a spell check for ie8 also?
High
High
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Provide more details about search results in Start Menu
Would be very helpful to get more information about the selected search result (especially thumbnails for images). Show what is in the details pane in Windows Explorer and for applications the Start Menu could show the Jump List for the selected program.
Display the details pane for a selected file and a Jump List for an application.
Medium
Medium
Not fixed
Which IE is which?
In the volume mixer, if you have multiple IE tabs that produce sound, each will show up separately, but it's impossible to know which is which without trying each one.
Display either the name of the tab instead of Internet Explorer, or show the name of the tab on a mouse hover.
Medium
High
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ALT+F4 should close a window while in Flip 2D
With ALT+TAB we can easily switch windows. It would be great that while you still holding down the ALT-key, pressing F4 would close the selected window. Would enable users to close a lot of windows very fast.
That is a nice detail in OS (more...)
ALT+F4 should not close Flip 2D but the selected window.
Low
Low
Not fixed
Open Display Settings Window on Screen Where Conext Menu Was Clicked
In the event of a monitor error with multiple screens, it's nice being able to go to the Display Settings window and adjust the resolution / screen setup. When a user right clicks on the desktop and selects 'Display Settings' the window (more...)
Add some more intelligence to this particular context menu so that the window will open up on the screen where the it was clicked.
Low
Low
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[Suggestion] Device Stage Jumplist: Replaces "Safely Remove Hardware" & adds functionality
Issues in Safely Remove Hardware:
Small Icons, funny names, hard-to-use interface in an overwhelming window.
In the Device Stage Jumplist:
Tells you how many connected devices are there.
Large icons, readable (more...)
Use something simillar to my Mockup of a Device Stage Jumplist.
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High
Not fixed
Windows Image & Fax Viewer doesn't animate animated gifs
If you double-click a .gif on a folder, it'll open IE, but if you cycle to it using the image viewer, it won't animate.
Animate GIFs? also, make it faster, not like XP which did but at 1/2 of the real speed.
High
High
Not fixed
Windows Explorer Scrolling
In MS Outlook, to be able to scroll through some pane, it's enough to position your mouse cursor somewhere in that pane. In Windows Explorer, first you have to click on some part of the window to begin scrolling through it.
Make Windows Explorer behave like MS Outlook.
Medium
Medium
Not fixed
Add a decent Defrag tool
The Defrag tool hasn't been updated in a long time, then in Vista it was rewritten but it came out worse than before.
Please provide a user interface where you can at least see the progress that is made. Now you can't see anything (more...)
Provide a disk map of the current progress, maybe even with a progressbar.
Medium
Medium
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If "Number of Programs on Startmenue" = 0 then show "All Programms" when open the startmenue
if you do not allow any resent items you just see a white area when open the start menue
Edit: Sry for the bad mockup...just created from some screenshots found whit Google...
and like every time...demoters, please explain...
do not display a white area if there is no reason for...
Medium
Medium
Not fixed
Calculator on Start Menu Search
The Start Menu Search could be like Mac OS X Spotlight when we type a math formula.
I made a mock-up of how it should be. The Screenshot explains everything.
Perhaps to force the search to display a math result instead of searching for items, you'd just need to put '=' at the end of the math expression, like 1+2=
(more...)
High
High
Not fixed
Better multi-monitor support for Taskbar
When you have multiple monitors, currently you only get one taskbar on the primary monitor, and desktop is repilicated between them. You really have no control over where apps appear when you launch them, where dialogs appear, or any ability to utilize (more...)
It would be nice if you could have the option to have the taskbar on each monitor, and to be able to customize which items are pinned to which taskbar. Applications pinned to the task bar on a given monitor will launch on that given monitor. Each task (more...)
High
High
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Use the same font: Segoe UI
Windows 7 still uses Tahoma for some dialogues and more, please use Segoe UI as the native font for the system, forget Tahoma!
Medium
High
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Task Manager's Experience can be improved...
When i opened task manager to view system resource usage, by default its icon was hidden. In vista, I generally used to minimize it's windows so that i can see the real time cpu usage in its icon in system tray....but now by deaufalt the icon is (more...)
Medium
High
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