Windows 7 Taskforce

Advanced Recovery Methods uses wrong icon

Submitted by nyp on February 8, 2009 to Icons

Problem: Advanced Recovery Methods in Recovery in Control Panel uses the wrong icon, or to be specific, the Flip 3D icon, which has nothing to do with Recovery!

Solution: Change it to the Recovery icon.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Fixed

Fixed in build 7057.

(4 comments)

<FIXED> Windows Energy and Windows Logo screensavers use legacy Vista branding

Submitted by antiufo on February 7, 2009 to Legacy

Problem: Windows Energy screensaver shows the "Energy Ribbon", part of Vista branding but not present in Windows 7.

Windows Logo screensaver shows the old Vista logo, with the orb. Replace it with something like the new boot animation.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Fixed

(18 comments)

Feature: Enable ISO Mounting as native in Windows 7 Explorer

Submitted by cthames on February 3, 2009 to Usability

Problem: Since Virtual CD doesn't work any more a native integrated way (in Explorer) to mount ISO to the My Computer. It would also solve any conflicts with drivers and the like. I had to use System Restore in order to get Windows 7 to work again after trying (more...)

Solution: It would be beneficial for MSDN subscribers and the general public and would also get rid of Spy-ware ridden software that enables this. So the solution would be to have a native integrated way (in Explorer) like Zip except it asks to mount the ISO instead.
(more...)

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Fixed

Now on Windows 8!

(16 comments)

<FIXED> <FIXED, HELP PAGE REMOVED> Windows Help suggests using Autoruns for disabling startup programs, but it's too complex and dangerous when used by inexpert users

Submitted by antiufo on February 1, 2009 to Usability

Problem: Search on Windows Help and Support "Stop a program from running automatically when Windows starts".

It suggests downloading Autoruns from Microsoft Sysinternals, but inexpert users could disable shell extensions, services or drivers (more...)

Solution: At least add a warning box, or show by default only 3rd party apps (excluding drivers and services)

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Fixed

AutoComplete animation is old

Submitted by nyp on January 29, 2009 to Aesthetics, Legacy

Problem: The AutoComplete animation in Internet Explorer seems like it came from stone age.

Solution: Update it to have the Aero cursor and Aero styles.
Or remove this dialog entirely. No other browser asks this.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Fixed

I believe this dialog is gone in IE9 now.

(10 comments)

[fixed] Media Player does support less video formats than Photo Gallery

Submitted by tino on January 27, 2009 to Annoyance, Legacy

Problem: Yes. It's strange. But please try it: after installing QuickTime I'm still not able to play .mov files in Windows Media Player 12 but in Windows Live Photo (!) Gallery. HD works even much smoother than in QuickTime (not a big surprise, btw).

Solution: If the technology is there, it should be used in all media applications.

Severity: Low

Impact: Medium

Status: Fixed

(11 comments)

Remote Desktop displays a Windows XP style Reconnecting window when the network disconnects

Submitted by nyp on January 23, 2009 to Aesthetics

Problem: When you are using Remote Desktop and your connection suddenly disconnects, you get a nice blue Luna style Reconnecting window.

Solution: Restyle it to Vista/7 style. Maybe something like the one in the image.

Severity: Medium

Impact: Low

Status: Fixed

Fixed in build 7057.

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1286251/images/remote%20desktop%20reconnecting.png

(11 comments)

Bug when restore WMP

Submitted by Helito on January 22, 2009 to Bug

Problem: Some times there is a bug when restore Windows Media Player window (in mini mode). The window content is showed before window to be restored.

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Fixed

With build RC.

(2 comments)

[fixed] Aero Glass: very poor blur quality

Submitted by tino on January 22, 2009 to Aesthetics, Bug

Problem: Try this: Move a window behinde the transparent taskbar. You will see text and other elements do flicker heavily. This was no problem in Vista.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Fixed

(9 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)

Control Panel View [FIXED in 7048]

Submitted by Dubya on January 21, 2009 to Annoyance

Problem: When running Control Panel from the desktop or Start Menu, it remembers if you changed the view to show all items (as opposed to the category view) but when Control Panel is pinned to the taskbar it always opens in Category View when run from there.

Solution: Make Control Panel remember last view when pinned to the taksbar.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Fixed

Fixed in build 7048.

Deleting dialog have white rectangular

Submitted by charge01 on January 21, 2009 to Bug

Problem: See image

Solution: click "more information" in dialog

Severity: Low

Impact: Medium

Status: Fixed

(2 comments)

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)

Cannot customize the number of jump list recent items

Submitted by eikonoklastes2 on January 19, 2009 to Annoyance, Usability

Problem: You can turn off the taskbar jump list recent items, but you cannot adjust it.

I don't want to completely remove the jump list history, but I don't want the huge list either.

Solution: Include a control to adjust the number of jump list recent items, just like the Start Menu recent items

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Fixed

(2 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)