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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
Not fixed
Bring back the basic search
When searching in Vista, it searches through the contents of files, the filenames,
with indexing on/off,...
This is all way to cumbersome. I have found that most of the time I find more unrelated files to my search than related ones and (more...)
Bring back the basic search from XP.
High
High
Not fixed
Extend the taskbar to multiple screens
Now when you have multiple screens, the taskbar is only shown on the first one.
It is annoying not having the taskbar extend onto the next screen because you can't see which windows are on there.
It would be nice if the taskbar extends to all the screens, preferably a taskbar per screen.
High
High
Fixed
It's there in Windows 8.
Tabbed Explorer
It would be nice to have tabsin the Windows Explorer, just like in IE.
This also avoids having multiple Explorers open at the same time.
Add tabs, like in Internet Explorer.
Medium
Medium
Not fixed
Full customization during Windows installation
All versions of Microsoft Windows have only limited customizable installation. And what I'm emphasizing here is, full customization during the installation. I'm not talking about unattended installation here, which will require lots of editing (more...)
Full customization of a Windows installation during the setup process. The beginning phase of the Windows installation should prompt users whether to install in default setting (where it will install all the default features, like how it does in the normal (more...)
High
High
Not fixed
Include "folder tracking" in Explorer.
Again this is a suggestion.
This feature would highlight changes made to folders (like when you download new files to your download folder, or new files in your shared libraries)
This will also provide "news" like (more...)
Low
Medium
Not fixed
No easy way to move documents and application data to a separate partition / disk.
If something bad happens to the system, you can't just do a full recovery because by default all documents, photos, music, etc. are on the main, system partition. If the user or OEMs could move the "Users" folder easily (during the OS installation?) (more...)
Add a way to change the default location of Users folder (possibly during installation)
Medium
High
Not fixed
Drive letters change
Partition/drive letters change when you do one of the following things:
Example [A]:
1. Plug in your drive -> Windows assigns G:
2. Remove the drive
3. Insert a second drive -> Windows will once again assign G:
4. (more...)
Always reserve the drive letter set up for a device by partition's GUID and remove that reservation only if there are no more drive letters available (eg. all filled up from C: to Z:).
Another solution: Switch to GUID identification (more...)
Medium
High
Not fixed
Improved Registry Editor
Registry Editor hasn't been updated in a long time and it shows.
Add search functionality such as Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) wildcards, regular expressions, by date search (newer than, older than).
Show all results at once, perhaps in a separate tab so we don't have to F3 all the way.
I (more...)
Low
Low
Not fixed
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[fixed] Add the additional menu items of the Computer Management above the close item
I use the Computer Management very often (right click "Computer", select "Manage") and every time I get annoyed at the two additional menu items that have been added below the close item! When I want to close the application I just (more...)
Move the two additional menu items above the close item!
Low
Low
Fixed
Easy way to change applications and services that start with windows
For users who don't know the "msconfig" tool, the "Computer Management" tool and don't want to use 3rd party software it's not possible to have a look at all applications that start after logging in to windows. In Vista (more...)
Add a new tool to the control panel that let's you decide which applications will be started after the login.
Low
Low
Not fixed
"Homegroup" category is visible when Homegroups are not configured
"Homegroup" category is visible when Homegroups are not configured
See the picture.
Move the "Homegroup" category to the bottom, when Homegroups are not configured.
Low
Low
Not fixed
New font dialog: Advanced options
We have a divide and then Advanced options and then ONE advanced option.
Put the tickbox below the first tickbox and remove the break and Advanced option header.
Low
Low
Fixed
Correct all legacy and/or inconcistant windows to use aero styling rules
A lot of windows still use legacy colors. There's not much to explain, here are two examples:
- the background color is gray in "Virtual Memory" and in "Performance Options" it's almost white)
- the create new (more...)
Use consistant colors throughout whole Windows
Low
Low
Not fixed