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Don't cancel an entire "Move" or "Copy" action because of a single error.
Sometimes I have to copy or move a very large folder to another spot on the hard drive. There is absolutely nothing more annoying then when it is almost finished with this thirty minute to hour long process then when I get an error like "Cannot copy (more...)
Is anyone here familiar with the xcopy command line tool? There are parameters that you can set that makes it follow certain rules; one of these rules is that it will ignore errors and copy all the files it can, then tell you which ones weren't copied (more...)
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High
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It's Time: Unified Control Panel
UPDATE 6/22/2010: Re-uploaded all of the concept images. Sorry!
I think the largest issue in terms of usability with the Windows operating system to date is the lack of a central unified control panel. While the OS does have a fairly large (more...)
Merge everything, all properties, options, tasks, EVERYTHING into the control panel.
Please see the mockups I have created here: http://davidswebserver.com/ControlPanelConcepts/
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High
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Enable Drag&Drop to the Breadcrumb bar
The most needed feature missing in the shell IMO is dragging files and folders to the breadcrumb bar in Explorer. This would enable users to easily move items to the parent folder or extract files from a zipped folder without going trough the extraction (more...)
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High
Fixed
Output to more than one audio device simultaneously
Can't send audio stream to more than one audio device simultaneously.
Allow stream output to more than one audio output device simultaneously, perhaps with (optional) automatic or manual latency adjustment.
The next logical step would be what commenter Webweaver refers to below as "many to many": (more...)
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High
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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...)
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Feature: Enable ISO Mounting as native in Windows 7 Explorer
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...)
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.
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Medium
Fixed
Now on Windows 8!
Bigger Window for Advanced Power Settings
When changing the system's Advanced Power Settings, the window contains a vast amount of settings in a tree format, however, the size of the window is far too small. This makes navigating all of the settings painfully difficult, especially as you (more...)
The Advanced Power Options should be in a window the same size as the regular power options. Personally, I do not think the settings should be in a tree format either. That alone makes them difficult to navigate.
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Medium
Not fixed
Pie charts shown in the general tab of hard drive proprieties dialog box need redesign
The charts showing the busy and free space of hard disks are visually old.
Redesign the charts.
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Medium
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Properly Size Default Columns in File Explorer
When in "Details" view within Explorer, there is a large amount of blank unused space by default, yet many of the columns or "dividers" are sized too small, so much so that relatively short file names and extension types are cut off.
By default, all of the dividers should be properly sized to take up the entire width of the window, focusing primarily on the Name divider.
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Low
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.
Option to pause (and resume) a file transfer
Sometimes a file transfer can take up a lot of resources so I think it would be useful if you could pause it and resume it again at a later time.
Add a pause button on the file copy dialog.
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High
Fixed
Available in Windows 8.
Document thumbnails should reflect number of pages
Thumbnails are simply shown with a rectangular border—this doesn't give a good visual representation of multi-page documents.
File types that have the 'pages' property, like Word Documents, should have a representation based on the number of pages they have—a document with more than one page shown as a pile, the front page with a curl.
Or, if there's (more...)
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Medium
Not fixed
Tooltip for Close/Minimise/Maximise uses XP style
Incredibly, the tooltips for these buttons STILL haven't been updated from the old XP style.
Use the standard tooltip style.
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Low
Not fixed
Redesign the IE downloader to use Aero File Operation animation and styling
Copying, Renaming, Tagging, Deleting, and Moving files in Vista/7 all use a common window styling. The only File Operation that doesn't use this styling is Downloading.
Update the window to use the same styling as the other File Operations.
Here's a mockup to give an idea of what I mean. (Vote on suggestion not my not so good mockup!)
Full image (more...)
Medium
Medium
Fixed
Changed in Internet Explorer 9, for better or worse...
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
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