Windows 7 Taskforce

When taskbar is place on top, left or right the gap is too much between taskbar and jumplist

Submitted by Zerlot on May 8, 2009 to Aesthetics, Bug

Problem: When taskbar is place on top, left or right the gap is too much between taskbar and jumplist

Solution: Fix it

Severity: Medium

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

"About Internet Explorer" window bug taskbar

Submitted by Helito on February 21, 2009 to Bug

Problem: When Internet Explorer is opened with about window, the taskbar don't work good.

See video to understand: (more...)

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Fixed

With IE8 RTM.

Hidden tray icons panel have unwanted line wrapping(s)

Submitted by litemininyuszika on January 2, 2009 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

Problem: In the hidden tray icons panel, Windows shows icons in two lines even if only 3(!) icons are hidden!

UPDATE: If I have 5 hidden icons, lines are 3 icons wide. More inconsistency!

(beta 1 build 7000)

Solution: Only wrap lines if needed!
If moving and resizing this panel can be allowed also it may be perfect!

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(8 comments)

<FIXED> Tooltips show up in the top left corner

Submitted by nitrous9200 on November 9, 2008 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

Problem: On more than a few occasions, hovering over a tray icon to see it's status will somehow show up in the top left corner of the screen and doesn't go away until a few clicks are made. I don't have much 3rd party software installed and it (more...)

Solution: Correct the behavior.

Severity: Medium

Impact: Low

Status: Fixed

doesn't happen anymore (maybe once in a great while)

(4 comments)

Allow Control Panel to Scroll Sideways

Submitted by Christo on February 22, 2009 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

Problem: Right now, if any item on the control panel is re sized horizontally, no horizontal scroll bar appears, it merely compresses the images when there are any, and makes the text move down

Solution: Allow side scrolling

Severity: Medium

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(3 comments)

Beta 1: Renaming folders on the Desktop unleashes gremlins

Submitted by eikonoklastes2 on January 19, 2009 to Bug

Problem: - Open Windows Explorer and make sure you can see below Network on the left. Collapse everything to be sure.
- Create a folder on the Desktop. Name it anything.
- Now Rename the folder to anything else.

It will mysteriously (more...)

Solution: Either explain what's going on or fix it.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(2 comments)

Sticky Note Issues:

Submitted by hoopla_punta on December 3, 2008 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Bug, Usability

Problem: See Image for more

Problems:
No text formatting, font, color, bold italic underline
Unscalable corkboard
Not much color choice
Cannot put images inside, or file links
No help file, export functions.
(more...)

Solution: Fix above issues

Severity: Medium

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(5 comments)

URL in Preview pane for emails can't be followed by clicking

Submitted by fanta2 on November 14, 2008 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

Problem: Searching for an email within the Communications library with the preview pane open will find said email and even allow you to view it without Outlook open, but (at least with Firefox as the default browser) won't let you click a url (even though (more...)

Severity: Medium

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

Superbar IE8 Tab Switching Bugs

Submitted by BraedenP on November 4, 2008 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

Problem: 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...)

Solution: 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.

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

(6 comments)

Windows Media Player seek bar broken (wav files only)

Submitted by Orion on November 4, 2008 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Bug

Problem: The bar showing where you are in music and use the seek function is broken.

Seems to only not work on WAV files. Other files work fine. On a wav file, the little button thingy will just sit in the front or dissapear.

See (more...)

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

Longhorn concept features back.

Submitted by apple on March 27, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Bug, Icons, Legacy, Usability

Problem: *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

Solution: Longhorn concept features back.

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

Sorting unselects selected files.

Submitted by windowsweirdo on June 16, 2009 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

Problem: Selected files in windows explorer become unselected after changing sorting order.

Solution: Make explorer remember selected files after sorting.

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(1 comments)

Media Player displays thumbnails upside down while minimized. (Build 7057)

Submitted by TheDub on March 17, 2009 to Aesthetics, Bug

Problem: Screenshot will say it all. Please take a look. This only occurs when media player is minimized.

Solution: Fix it!

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(6 comments)

Sound device Properties button [FIXED in 7057]

Submitted by Dubya on January 13, 2009 to Bug

Problem: When looking at the sound device configuration window, the Properties button exhibits an artefact until you click on it or hover the mouse over it.

Solution: Fix the button

Severity: Medium

Impact: Low

Status: Fixed

Fixed in build 7057.

(7 comments)