Windows 7 Taskforce

-12 +14/-26 votes

Consistent use of the Control Panel taskbar botton

Submitted by blai_cb on May 27, 2009 to Icons, Usability

Problem: When you open the Control Panel, you are opening just an other instance of explorer.exe
Why it opens his own button in the taskbar?
It doesn't happen with bin, network, games or other "special?" instances of windows explorer.
(more...)

Solution: Use the same rule for all programs.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

This submission [[Not a suggestion] How can i run a program in vista compatability mode?] has been removed because

Sorry, this is not a support forum.

-12 +5/-17 votes

[Not a suggestion] How can i run a program in vista compatability mode?

Submitted by Acta on May 22, 2009 to Annoyance

Problem: We all know the windows live issue.
And i wish to run wlmessenger in vista compatability, but neither the microsoft website nor the F1 help actually.... help.

Solution: Please tell me how to do it

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

This submission [Classic Start Menu] has been marked a duplicate of

Retain "Clasic Start Menu" in Win 7

Please vote and comment on the original submission.

-12 +18/-30 votes

Classic Start Menu

Submitted by Hobbes2099 on May 14, 2009 to Legacy

Problem: It's not a problem per sé, and I've noticed that there's already a couple of threads requesting the option to "go back to legacy", what I believe is needed is a bit of middle ground because there was certain functionality that (more...)

Solution: Upon repeated use of certain items, previous Windows versions learned which items were of constant use and kept them shown, and which ones were less frequently needed, and hid them appropriately, keeping the Start Menu small and tidy.

Cascading (more...)

Severity: Low

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

-12 +18/-30 votes

Glass CMD

Submitted by Kalzenith on May 5, 2009 to Aesthetics

Problem: it serves no real purpose, but if microsoft were to make the command prompt have a glassy background, it would make it seem less like a system application, more polished and happy.

im just submitting someone else's idea i came across (more...)

Solution: make the command prompt shiny

Severity: Low

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

-12 +7/-19 votes

Aero Next Taskforce needed

Submitted by Neville on April 16, 2009 to Website suggestions

Problem: Windows 7 is feature complete. Effectively nothing except Bugs and Aesthetics will be fixed between now and RTM.

Solution: Create an Aero Next Taskforce for submissions that alter the look or behaviour of Windows. Refocus Aero(renamed as Vista?) and Win7 Taskforces on bugs and aesthetics.
Split Aqua taskforce in same way.
Make Link to the Taskforce sister sites (more...)

Severity: Low

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

-12 +12/-24 votes

Add more shortcuts with image in the start menu

Submitted by DEXTER on April 10, 2009 to Aesthetics, Icons, Usability

Problem: One could add more shortcuts with image in the start menu and save mouse clicks? The truth is that it would be much more comfortable and aesthetically pleasing. Windows Vista does not think about it.

Thank you for your attention.
Best (more...)

Severity: Low

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

This submission [Taskbar Thumbnail] has been removed because

Works by design.

-12 +10/-22 votes

Taskbar Thumbnail

Submitted by Manan on March 17, 2009 to Aesthetics

Problem: Thhis just randomly appeared in build 7048 while starting installation of build 7057, when I hover the mouse on the setup icon in the taskbar, it comes with a brown background, check image.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

-12 +19/-31 votes

Add IPX Protocal for support old games

Submitted by charge01 on March 11, 2009 to Legacy

Problem: I want to play "Red Alert 2 and Yuri's Revenge" with my friend On LAN or Hamachi
i cant play without IPX

it's can play only with UDP patch

Solution: bring IPX Protocal back

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

-12 +26/-38 votes

There must be Windows XP Royale themes and Windows XP shell, Explorer Level customization

Submitted by qams on January 26, 2009 to Annoyance, Usability

Problem: There is no Old themes and shells in Windows Vista and 7, This causes usability problems to more than 7 year experienced users of Windows XP.
So there must be Windows XP themes and Windows XP shell like customization in windows Vista and Windows (more...)

Solution: Include Customizable themes so one can customize to look like WIndows XP Professional and Royale theme or Classic Themes and shells.

Please Vote after Deep Thinking. Look Windows XP Explorer, Copy to, Move to facilties

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

-12 +17/-29 votes

Disable Folder Thumbnails "Live Folders"

Submitted by Sem on January 10, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance

Problem: The thumbnails for folders or live folders is a nice idea but unfortunately it doesn't come off very well and looks terrible IMO

having just plain folders all the same looks better

at present you can only turn off thumbnails (more...)

Solution: give us the option to disable thumbnails for folders only while still maintaining them for files or if you prefer turn them off for files but keeping them folders
either way make the option to turn them on or off independent from each other

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

-12 +16/-28 votes

Sample Files

Submitted by hutchinson_1989 on December 19, 2008 to Annoyance

Problem: Sample pictures, videos, music etc are not needed and are very annoying

Solution: Do not include them in Windows 7

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

-12 +15/-27 votes

Screensavers all require Direct3D?

Submitted by TheDub on December 17, 2008 to Usability

Problem: Windows 95 featured a screen saver that was a 3D maze, Windows 3.1 featured screen savers that even looked 3D. Windows 7 however requires a Direct3D capable card just to display the ribbons screen saver? Is this a joke? The only screen savers that work (more...)

Solution: Remove this purposely implemented limitation (at least as far as I can tell its on purpose). I know most consumers have 3D cards now but its just the whole idea that its been broken without justification.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

-12 +13/-25 votes

Add a possibility to log in as a certain user using administrators credentials

Submitted by Wisher on November 4, 2008 to Annoyance, Usability

Problem: As admin I know how it is annoying when you have to see/fix a problem or configure a certain feature in users environment but the user is not near you and you don't know his password. You can: 1) wait till user comes back, 2) change his password (more...)

Solution: Add a possibility to log in as a certain user using administrators credentials, not the users.

Severity: Medium

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

-13 +10/-23 votes

Make Windows Explorer have special effects similar to the file explorer in Mac OS X

Submitted by formula_86 on February 12, 2010 to Aesthetics, Usability

Problem: Its really boring to see all of my files arranged out in the same way as in all previous versions of Windows.

Solution: Why not add some special effects to explorer that looks like in the picture below? It would be perfect for multi-touch systems I reckon.

Severity: Low

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

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This submission [Problem adding new porgrams] has been removed because

Sorry, this is not tech support. Please contact the software vendor instead.

-13 +3/-16 votes