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Most popular submissions for the past 7 days

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CD Error when Autolaunch program still active & CD ejected

Submitted by Daemonmonkey on March 10, 2010 to Annoyance, Usability

When an autostarted program is active after you inserted a CD with Autoplay, and then you eject the CD without ending the program and then try to end/continue program the error notification pops up, telling you (correctly) that the CD i s missing.
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Make the dialog supreme and if I click Cancel that means the CD is not there so end the program.

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(1 comments)

11 +11/-0 votes

Redesign the 'No disc' error to fit in with the Aero UI

Submitted by formula_86 on March 10, 2010 to Aesthetics, Legacy

Inspiration came from this: http://www.windows7taskforce.com/view/3846

The 'No disc' error message design (more...)

Do whats suggested above.

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(5 comments)

11 +12/-1 votes

Program Compatibility Assistant never remembers setting not to ask again

Submitted by pyrates on March 7, 2010 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

I'm logged in as a regular user. Whenever I run the program that isn't compatible with windows 7, such as media player classic or media player classic - homecinema and then close it when done, Program Compatibility Assistant will popup asking (more...)

Actually keep a list of the programs I say for the Program Compatibility Assistant not to ask me again about.

Work around is disabling it:

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(2 comments)

10 +10/-0 votes

Tray icon prevents taskbar auto-hide.

Submitted by Nime on March 13, 2010 to Annoyance, Usability

I use taskbar autohide feature and sometimes a tray icon needs attention so it prevents taskbar autohide function. However It's not quite brilliant which icon does that. I simply click on every tray icons to re-hide taskbar or disable taskbar auto-hide (more...)

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8 +10/-2 votes

Have the taskbar resize like in a window (more smoothly).

Submitted by computerkid on March 13, 2010 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Usability

Currently when you resize the task bar, and keep your mouse held at a certain spot the windows is still in the same spot making it seem a little clunky in my opinion.

Make the windows move to fill up the space that is opened up when you resize the task bar (kinda like the way a window resizes). In my opinion, it could give the illusion of a faster system.

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(7 comments)

6 +9/-3 votes

Rollover pop-ups in internet explorer.

Submitted by JimB on March 9, 2010 to Annoyance

After all these years in getting rid of POP-UP windows.
Now we have roll-over pop up small windows that pop up and block the web page.
This should be fixed.

have a setting that blockes roll-over pop ups.

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(4 comments)

4 +4/-0 votes

Some full-screen applications / games may display the taskbar

Submitted by Cab on March 14, 2010 to Bug

Some full-screen applications or games still retain the taskbar at the bottom of the screen. I had initially thought this to be an issue caused by the new desktop window manager, but it turned out to be related to high-DPI.

If you are using high-DPI: Right-click the application in question and on the compatibility tab tick the checkbox to disable high-DPI scaling.

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This submission [Start Menu Out Of Shape] has been marked a duplicate of

Bug on Start Menu when taskbar is on right side

Please vote and comment on the original submission.

0 +3/-3 votes

Start Menu Out Of Shape

Submitted by Trinity1080 on March 13, 2010 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

When the taskbar is being docked on the side, it will block the pinned items. That is not good, but the worst part is when it is dragged wider, the start menu will change into something very ugly which I failed to describe it.

Fix this bug!

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(5 comments)

This submission [Make excel easier to use] has been removed because

Office suggestion, please forward to Office team

-1 +2/-3 votes

Make excel easier to use

Submitted by mooky on March 11, 2010 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

I work in a lot of spreadsheets with multiple worksheets within them. I'd like an alt-tab function so that I can flick between the worksheets easily instead of going to all the terrible effort of using my mouse to select the correct one.

Create an alt-tab-like system!

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(4 comments)

-6 +3/-9 votes

Make the page used for logging into/creating your Taskforce account secure

Submitted by formula_86 on March 7, 2010 to Website suggestions

When logging into or creating your Taskforce account on either this site, Windows Live Taskforce, Aero Taskforce or Aqua Taskforce, wouldn't it be nice to have it so the page uses SSL? Yes, I know Long Zheng would have to purchase a SSL certificate (more...)

Make the Taskforce login/create account page use an SSL certificate as suggested above.

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(5 comments)

This submission [By default, make the language tone of Microsoft Office less patronizing] has been removed because

Sorry, this isn't the place to post Office UX quirks.

-7 +1/-8 votes

By default, make the language tone of Microsoft Office less patronizing

Submitted by bbchater2k10 on March 12, 2010 to Annoyance, Legacy, Usability

Lets face it: I have been using Microsoft Office ever since the 95 edition, and I can tell you one thing; the language tone of the whole thing is way too patronizing. I was bitterly disappointed when Office 2007 was released and when I tested out Office (more...)

Cut out the patronizing language tone for all future versions of Microsoft Office.

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(1 comments)

-8 +1/-9 votes

'Out of memory' error when trying to access this website on my mobile phone

Submitted by formula_86 on March 13, 2010 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability, Website suggestions

Some of you may remember this: http://www.windows7taskforce.com/view/3799

I think there is an even greater need to (more...)

Fix this problem immediately so that this site is accessible to more people with mobile phones similar to me.

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(3 comments)

-10 +1/-11 votes

Add tabs

Submitted by formula_86 on March 11, 2010 to Usability

Pretty annoying really when something doesn't have tabs, and for every new thing, it opens a new window.

Add tabs to everything that normally requires a new window to be opened for every new thing.

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(4 comments)

-11 +2/-13 votes

Resizing with the lower right corner

Submitted by DarkUltra on March 10, 2010 to Usability

I miss the resize area in the lower right corner. I refuse to use a 2-4 pixel border padding Microsoft decided to bloat my workspace with when they introduced the Aero skin in Windows Vista.

Bring back the old lower right corner resize area, and add an "invisible" resize area around the windows, overlapping the shadows. DPI independent area, of course.

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(8 comments)

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