Most popular submissions for the past 6 months
Untoggling Auto-Arrange in Windows Explorer
Not being able to drag the order of files and images around to my liking is an immensely irritating limitation for me and all professionals who constantly work with images. It's even more irritating in that W7 is inconsistent in allowing it on the (more...)
Please allow us to rearrange our items in our own fashion that does not involve renaming all of our files or even taking our hands off the mouse. This limitation seriously cuts into productivity, and it is a simple, essential, extremely useful function (more...)
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High
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Show size for folders in details view
I don't understand why you still cant see the size of a folder in details view in explorer. You have to either hover the mouse over the folder or bring up the properties for it.
This was annoying in xp and it still is now, 10 years later!
Simply display the size of folders in the details view in explorer, makes sense to me
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Medium
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Desktop Background scales images using nearest-neighbour subsampling
When images that are larger than the display resolution are set as the desktop background, they are scaled down using a rudimentary nearest-neighbor algorithm, resulting in aliasing artifacts.
Please view the attached comparison image at (more...)
Use bicubic interpolation or similar scaling algorithm like most modern software does.
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Windows Media Player: "Find album information" is very bad
fai.music.metaservices.microsoft.com should return more accurate metadata.
* No duplicate albums and low-quality metadata
* Better search and auto-search function (see the screenshot)
* DON'T show results that don't (more...)
Integrate metadata from Last.fm, Amazon, or use the power of Bing, powerset and the semantic html
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A quick and simple way to change the Start Menu size
i think its a bit ridiculous that i have to go to the settings just to resize the start menu,
where as with a window i can just grab a side or corner
and many new users haven't realized that you can change change the size
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provide a similar resizing method to resizing windows
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Low
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Run window should have "Run as administrator" checkbox
"Run" used to be the "quick and dirty" way to run stuff FAST (i.e. I could Run cmd and get a command prompt). But under UAC I typically need an ELEVATED command prompt, which requires me to find/make an elevated shortcut for. If it (more...)
Add "Run as Administrator" in the Run Window under the Open: [path] combo-box. Require the user to manually toggle the box for security reasons consistent with UAC.
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Medium
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Remember each folder's view settings: Bring it back!
Each folder has different view settings. It's very annnoying then I have to set folder view to prefered every time.
Just bring back this feature.
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High
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Do not steal keyclicks when asking user to reboot or postpone windows updates
I ran Windows Update today. It wanted to reboot my machine, so it popped up a box asking me if I wanted to reboot or postpone 10 minutes. I ignored it (meaning I didn't click postpone or anything else), instead clicked on Firefox, and continued (more...)
Do not ever steal focus by bringing this window to the foreground, which will end up stealing keyclicks intended for another application. Just make it activate a blinking icon in the toolbar or something, like it does when something needs process elevation.
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"Ask me what to do" option - for physical power button
In the Power Settings you can customize the physical Power button and Sleep button (located on the keyboard and on the computer case) with Sleep, Shut down, Hibernate or Do Nothing.
The "Ask me what to do" is missing. That used (more...)
Add the option "Ask me what to do" on the Power Setings.
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Low
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Locate File window should be the same as Open/Save Dialogue
Occasionally Windows 7 asks you to locate a file, e.g. if you are installing a device that has no driver on Windows Update then you can browse to a location where it is saved.
However, the window titled "Locate File" does not have the (more...)
Replace "Locate File" interface with the "Open/Save" interface
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Low
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Save As... Dialog should not initially highlight the file extension when displaying a suggested file name
I like the new feature in Win7 where in Windows Explorer/desktop (with file extensions visible) you can rename a file and it initially won't automatically select the file extension part of the file name. If you still want to rename the extension, (more...)
Extend this functionality into the Save As... dialog when so that the extension is not initially highlighted - then you can just type to rename the file without having to worry about changing the extension. (you can of course, still rename the extension (more...)
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Medium
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Processing multiple copying operations Sequentially
When I copy some files from a media to another media (e.g. from a CD-ROM to Hard Disk), i have to wait until it finish, because starting a new copy operations slows down the first one (because both of copies will process in parallel manner).
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Medium
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[7100 x64] Speed up Layout options
There are two ways to select the actual view in the Explorer: One is in the top Explorer bar, one in the "Organize" menu under Layout. When I see the button on the top right, I always think the "Layout" drop down opens in the views (more...)
Move the "Layout" drop down to the "Preview pane" button on the right top next to the existing button. The actual button can keep it's existing behaviour. In my opinion, that makes it faster to change the layout. And it's (more...)
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Inconsistent dialogs for deleting obsolete shortcuts.
Let's say you uninstall a program, but it leaves a shortcut behind on the Desktop or on the Start Menu. When you click on it, Windows throws you the dialog box in Figure 1, as a way of letting you know that the target no longer exists.
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Make the dialog from Figure 2 the standard dialog whenever an invalid shortcut is encountered.
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Better use of "Fitt's Law" in Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer Back buttons.
You can read about Fitt's Law here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2006/08/22/711808.aspx
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Make the back button also active at the extreme left edge of a Windows Explorer/Internet Explorer window!
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Medium
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