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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/
High
High
Not fixed
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...)
High
High
Not 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...)
High
High
Not fixed
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.
Low
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.
Medium
High
Fixed
Available in Windows 8.
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.
High
Low
Not fixed
Closing laptop should NOT hibernate after shutdown has been ordered
When I physically close my laptop computer, Windows goes into hibernation, which is a good thing since it saves battery power.
However, this also happens if I close the laptop shortly AFTER ordering it to shut down. The shutdown is interrupted (more...)
Once a system shutdown has been ordered, disable the service that puts the system into hibernation when the laptop is being physically closed.
Medium
High
Not fixed
Just a lot of "Windows ..." (application naming)
Every application that may ship with Windows 7 starts with “Windows” like Windows Media Player and so on (except for the old ones like Paint or Notepad). If you open enough of them, the taskbar shows a lot of “Windows…” titles. I have counted (more...)
If that works on Mac OS X why not on Windows? Hide the term "Windows" on the taskbar buttons or rename the new applications. There is nothing wrong with simple names like "Paint" or "Notepad".
Medium
Medium
Not fixed
Allow MSCONFIG and windows like it to be scalable.
There are many windows like this, but ill stick with Msconfig. One of the handiest little tools in the past few builds, letting you turn off startup programs.
But the window is so small and the content is soo long, it's a file location (more...)
Allow these windows to be scalable.
Medium
High
Not fixed
Make Error Codes Copyable
I Have noticed that when an update fails the error code is not copyable. i want to use Google, not the windows vista forums the link brings you to.
error codes able to be selected and copied
Medium
Low
Not fixed
Burn Disc Image does not show progress in the Taskbar
Unlike several other Windows operations that show the progress in the task bar icon, burning an ISO with Burn Disc Image does not.
Show the burn progress in the task bar icon for Burn Disc Image
Medium
High
Not fixed
Old "browse virtual disk files" dialog
When browsing for a vhd-file you want to attach to windows 7 the classic file search dialog is shown
use the new and modern file dialog
Low
Low
Fixed
Windows 7 converts BMP/TIFF/PNG to JPG for wallpaper
Windows 7/Vista reduces PNG/BMP/TIFF to an artifacted JPG if you attempt to load one as wallpaper.
The desktop should take a given image, display it and not touch it. PNG is not a niche file format, so display it natively, transparencies and all. Most users that would notice this would likely understand memory usage issues. So give us the option.
Low
Low
Not fixed
Why is there so much unused whitespace in the Update Driver Software Wizard?
There is all this empty unused space in the Update Driver Software Wizard and we're given such a small and annoying to navigate area to find the actual drivers!!! Why!?!?
Make those boxes wider and taller, the window should maybe be bigger also, I'd like to be able to view at least 7 rows at a time, 10 would be nice but I'll be take 7 rows.
Medium
Medium
Fixed