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Superbar IE8 Tab Switching Bugs
There are two problems with the pop-up tab thumbnails in the Win7 Superbar:
1. The tab images don't update properly all the time. In the image below, the "JCXP.net" page does not currently look like that.
2. (more...)
I think that:
1. The tab images should update, even when the tab is not active.
2. IE8 should be brought to then front AND switch to the selected tab when clicking on a thumbnail.
Medium
Medium
Not fixed
Modernize "Browse For Folder" dialog
The "Browse For Folder" dialog lacks features that the new open dialogs offers such as sidebar favorites and custom views.
Browsing for a folder should include the same UI features as the open dialogs such as sidebar favorites and custom views.
Medium
Medium
Not fixed
Cannot multiple select items in the task bar by holding down control
Ever since Windows 98 (maybe 95) you could select multiple windows from the task bar by holding down control and clicking on the windows (in the task bar) that you wanted to select. This would allow you to quickly close, and organize multiple selections (more...)
Put the option back!
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Medium
Not fixed
Longhorn concept features back.
*WinFS support.
*anyfile direct quick Preview, unneeded use preview pane.
*complete Sidebar features. not Vista simplify Sidebar.
*etcs
Please watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9ifQvQCO7Y
Longhorn concept features back.
High
High
Not fixed
Arrows in breadcrumb bar should be greyed out on inactive windows
To remove clutter on inactive windows the black triangles on the breadcrumb bar in Explorer should be greyed out like in Vista.
Make the triangles transparent/grey like the text when a window is not active.
Low
Low
Not fixed
Change "Internet Options" to "Internet Explorer Options"
and extract all system-wide options and put them seperately.
Medium
Medium
Not fixed
<build 7000> Jump List refresh (WLMessenger example)
When you open the WLMessenger Jump List, and change your status, the choice is not reflected on the Jump List itself. It just keeps the state it had when invoked.
I don't know if this happens generally on Jump List with such checking (more...)
Make Jump Lists refresh their state when choices are made in them.
Medium
High
Not fixed
Internet Explorer Mutiple Download Dialogue's
When Downloading multiple files, a user would have multiple download dialogue boxes on screen taking up screen real-estate and the only option to remedy this is to minimise each box or show desktop, then each dialogue would be grouped on taskbar again (more...)
User's may benefit from tabbed download boxes so when downloading multiple files they are contained into one dialogue box and tabbed for the user to browse through
Medium
Medium
Fixed
Taskbar calendar dates have the ugly dotted lines
When you click the time.date on the taskbar, you get a pop up displaying the calendar as well as an analog clock. The dates have that ugly dotted line around them. This also shows uop when you view the months as well as the years from 1900-2xxxx. Only (more...)
fix them. Not very user friendly.
Low
Low
Not fixed
Add a keyboard shortcut to create a new folder to explorer
Creating a new folder is an extremely common task for power users. It's annoying to have to go to a menu to do this. A keyboard shortcut would solve this.
Might I recommend CTRL-SHIFT N? That would be peachy.
Low
Medium
Fixed
Merge both speech windows in to one central window.
This idea is to merge the window thats presented in the screenshot, with the window in this link. Reason is simple, the new window presents the same features, just in a advanced mode. It also adopts the new aero wizzards
Merge with this:
http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/1729/speechdx8.png
See attach (more...)
Low
Low
Not fixed
Synchronize Folder Treeview With Current Folder
I sometimes want to move an item to a lower level in the folder hierarchy. In Windows 6, it was easy to do this using the folder treeview by dragging the item to the new location in the tree because it was synchronized with my current folder.
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Synchronize the folder tree with the current folder in the explorer.
Low
Medium
Not fixed
WMP and Media Center should have native Bluray support
In terms of Windows 8 I guess .. instead of using third party software such as PowerDVD to play Bluray films in media center it should be supported by default by both media center and WMP.
Basically, you should be able to put a bluray disc in the drive and then just play it through either going to "Play DVD" (perhaps it could be changed to "Play Movie Disc"?) or by asking you if you want to play it.
Low
Medium
Not fixed
Multiple default playback devices
When switching between using the computer at my desk, and then wathcing movies or playing music through my tv and surround-reciever, I have to manually switch default playback device.
The same problem kind of problem occurs when I want (more...)
Being able to select multiple default playback devices, or being able to bind an application to one, or multiple, playback devices.
And with 'Bind' I mean the application is bound until I remove the application from the playback device(s) (more...)
Medium
High
Not fixed