Windows 7 Taskforce

Application has stopped working icon looks bad in 120dpi

Submitted by jonathanmarston on March 17, 2009 to Aesthetics, Icons

Problem: A minor gripe, but it should be fixed: The application has stopped working icon looks bad in 120dpi

Solution: Create a higher resolution icon

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(3 comments)

Make Windows key shortcuts more discoverable

Submitted by jonathanmarston on March 17, 2009 to Usability

Problem: Windows key shortcuts are great, but they aren't very obvious

Solution: While holding the Windows key, display tooltips showing available options a la Office when pressing alt (see mock-up). The tooltips would show up after a delay so that you wouldn't see them when you just want to open the Start menu, and there should (more...)

Severity: Low

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

(8 comments)

Give alt-tab the enhancements from enhanced taskbar

Submitted by jonathanmarston on February 17, 2009 to Aesthetics, Usability

Problem: The new taskbar enhancements are great, but alt-tab should get updated to match for consistency and improved usability

Solution: When you press alt-tab and continue to hold alt, Aero Peek should be enabled when hovering over thumbnails, and a close button should be made available (see mock-up).

Also (not in the mock-up 'cause I'm lazy), it would be nice (more...)

Severity: Medium

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(8 comments)

Gadgets window errors

Submitted by jonathanmarston on November 4, 2008 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Bug, Usability

Problem: A couple issues with the gadgets window:
1. The background behind the paging controls appear to be incorrect
2. If you click Show Details and then move the window, the window resizes and the bottom is cut off; see screenshot (also (more...)

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(1 comments)

Un-bury and update the advanced network settings dialog box

Submitted by jonathanmarston on November 4, 2008 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Usability

Problem: The advanced network settings dialog box (where you can change adapter and binding priorities and provider order) has been buried since Windows Vista, and is in horrible need of updating.

The only way to access it (that I know of) in 6801 (more...)

Solution: At minimum a button should be added to the toolbar under network connections, and the UI should be updated to use the Aero visual style

Severity: Medium

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(3 comments)

Allow dragging files on to pinned programs

Submitted by jonathanmarston on November 4, 2008 to Usability

Problem: If you drag and drop a file from Explorer on to a pinned icon on the taskbar in 6801 it is ignored if the application is not running, and the application is switched to if it is. This is not the expected behavior, and appears to simply follow the behavior (more...)

Solution: When a file is droppped on to a pinned item in the task bar, the file should be opened in that application. For instance, if I drag a .log file onto a pinned Notepad icon, the log file should be opened in Notepad (if there are already Notepad processes (more...)

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Fixed

(11 comments)