Most recent submissions by user "hoopla_punta"
Registered since: August 10, 2008
Don't ever ask to end explorer.exe if not responding.
I had a horrible experience when explorer crashed. The not responding window came up and asked me if I wanted to close, restart or wait. I clicked close, forgetting that it was explorer process I was closing. I don't really know how to get explorer (more...)
Don't ever ask to close the explorer process if it is not responding. Restart or wait only.
Medium
Medium
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A solution to Pin to/Open with on the Taskbar and extend length of "spring-load" time
I hope there's still time to implement this.
A lot of people have been complaining about the issue with the default behavior of the taskbar in when dragging and dropping items over tiles on the Taskbar.
Personally I (more...)
If a user d&d's and hovers over an icon the tooltip will say: "Open with/Pin to..."
Then if the user drops over the icon, a context menu will appear with three options:
Open with ****
Pin to *****
Cancel.
(more...)
Medium
Medium
Not fixed
Constant Aero Peek list animation whether top, bottom, left or right.
If you taskbar is on the top/bottom and you activate the list, the exiting transistion for the list is simply fading away.
If it is on the left or right side, the transition fades while sliding back into the taskbar, like a jumplist.
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Use a slide and fade transistion.
Medium
Low
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Control Panel can be resized into weird sizes
Control Panel can be resized into weird, unusable sizes.
Put a lock limit to the resizing function of Control Panel
Medium
Low
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Allow arranging icons on mutiple rows of the taskbar with filling the previous one up.
Icons can be placed anywhere on the taskbar, this is not very true. What if we want to place icons on the second row of the taskbar? I must fill up the entire first row first.
I want to be able to arrange icons like in the mockup!
Medium
Medium
Not fixed
Arrange by = Group by + stack by + more "wow", why not allow Arrange by in normal folders, not just libraries?
"Arrange by" in libraries is pretty cool, first, it allows you to have this neat folder "arrange by", so you can have a slight treeview of your files and folders that no other view provides.
Second, you can sort files (more...)
Include both a Arrange by and Group by in normal folder, not just in a library.
Medium
High
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Aero Peeking a minimized window. How can you tell it is a minimized window?
When you aero peek a window, no matter if it is currently minimized or not, it still appears normally on your desktop. Sometimes you would like to know if it minimised, and since the buttons look the same, the only way you could tell is via the peek, (more...)
Show that a window is minimised by applying a slight transparency or effect, so that one can finally tell if the window is minimised.
Low
Medium
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Group by and View option overrides Arrange by in Libraries, make it clearer to the user.
Related: http://www.windows7taskforce.com/view/2113
When one tries to sort a Library through "Arrange by", sometimes (more...)
One can click on "clear changes" to undo the group by or view option, but Explorer should grey-out the Arrange by options in the drop down menu in order to tell the user that he has to do so first.
Medium
Medium
Not fixed
Control Panel: Be specific on whether search bar is searching content or tasks. Suggested functionality on search.
1. I remember that in Vista and 7, you can search the name of a program when in the "add/remove" programs through the search bar, and the search bar is still named "search control panel". However, I believed that the same functionality (more...)
1. Control Panel search bar should define what is being searched, the list of anything, or the whole control panel so that users can tell what they are searching. If a list is being searched, give a link through a drop down menu (see below) to search (more...)
High
Medium
Not fixed
"Search again in" should always be visible during a search
If one wishes to change the search location in one's search, he has to scroll down through all his search results, even if it is 500 results, just to reach the "Search again in" bar. This is very tedious and troublesome if there are many (more...)
Make "search again in" bar visible throughout one's search.
Medium
Medium
Not fixed
Announcement: Please migrate Windows Live entries to the new Taskforce
There is a new taskforce for Windows Live:
http://www.windowslivetaskforce.com/
Please migrate your submissions there. (more...)
Low
Low
Not fixed
[Suggestion] Device Stage Jumplist: Replaces "Safely Remove Hardware" & adds functionality
Issues in Safely Remove Hardware:
Small Icons, funny names, hard-to-use interface in an overwhelming window.
In the Device Stage Jumplist:
Tells you how many connected devices are there.
Large icons, readable (more...)
Use something simillar to my Mockup of a Device Stage Jumplist.
Medium
High
Not fixed
No way to tell if a window is minimised, maximised, active, or inactive in Taskbar.
With the new taskbar and new live previews, users should be able to tell if the window is:
Minimised
Maximised
Normal (active)
Not (Active)
This would slightly pose a problem with the new live previews feature, (more...)
This could be solved with different gradients in the previews of the window, I don't think different colours would be good.
Minimised: Darker gradient to the bottom 10%
Maximised Active: Darker gradient to the top 10%, Lighter (more...)
Medium
Medium
Not fixed
Strange highlighting issue in Start Menu Search.
1. Search for something it comes out with a , lets say "i"
2. It comes up with the list, notice that the first item is highlighted immediately (most likely for keyboard focus)
3. Move your mouse up and down the list, and in and (more...)
Fix the focus behavior bug.
Medium
Low
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Make an advanced search for advanced users.
The search box is too limited and not easy to use for advanced users. I would like to see all possible fields of entry at once.
Also to change the location of the search, I must scroll down. All the way down.
Create an advanced mode of search.
Keep the Search again in: on top of the search.
Better yet, use my previous example =P.
Medium
Medium
Not fixed