Windows 7 Taskforce

Windows Image & Fax Viewer doesn't animate animated gifs

Submitted by DARKGuy on December 21, 2008 to Bug, Usability

Problem: If you double-click a .gif on a folder, it'll open IE, but if you cycle to it using the image viewer, it won't animate.

Solution: Animate GIFs? also, make it faster, not like XP which did but at 1/2 of the real speed.

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(14 comments)

Time for file operations is inaccurate and not absolute

Submitted by DARKGuy on December 20, 2008 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

Problem: I'm copying some files off a computer to my PC on my own network and I've seen the time left as "About 1 hour"... and that was an hour and half ago.

I'd LOVE if Windows would show the full time (1:32, for example) (more...)

Solution: Calculate (and show) the time correctly.

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(14 comments)

Four words: Fix. The. Damn. Permissions.

Submitted by DARKGuy on December 18, 2008 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

Problem: I think the title and the screenshot says it all.

I can't believe that in all the time I've been using Windows 7, I've faced permission problems.

Some words to Microsoft: I DON'T NEED PERMISSION TO DO (more...)

Solution: Fix. The. Damn. Permissions.

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(20 comments)

Constant refresh while copying files to a folder with a shared folder within

Submitted by DARKGuy on December 18, 2008 to Bug, Usability

Problem: Well this has happened to me once (right now). Steps to reproduce:

1. Make a folder called "!Shared" on your Documents (can be any name anyways)
2. Share it
3. Make a new folder inside your Documents called "2" (more...)

Solution: Stop the constant refresh in the folder where there is no file activity? it's just silly to do code-wise and annoying for the user. I had to wait until the copy was finished so I could rename my newly-created folder.

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

Missing icons in start menu :(

Submitted by DARKGuy on December 17, 2008 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Bug, Icons

Problem: If you make a shortcut in your desktop and then pin it to the start menu, then delete it, you'll get a missing icon :(. You can also right-click the item and go to its properties and you'll see the icon, but it doesn't update in the start (more...)

Solution: Update the icon in the start menu

Severity: Medium

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(12 comments)

Background for icon renaming is hard to see sometimes

Submitted by DARKGuy on December 16, 2008 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Bug

Problem: Check the picture. When the text is above dark background, it can be seen. When it is above light background, it cannot be seen.

Problem is that Windows 7 uses a mask to make the text transparent, and the box white. When you move the icon (more...)

Solution: Invert the mask, or change background color when the range of colours detected behind the text is close to white, or something along those lines.

Severity: Medium

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(3 comments)

Volume slider/icon in WMP ?

Submitted by DARKGuy on December 16, 2008 to Aesthetics, Usability

Problem: I can't find a volume slider or option in the small WMP taskbar preview! it would be greatly useful, or at least a mousewheel option for controlling the volume :)

Solution: Add a volume button/slider! :D

Severity: Low

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(6 comments)

WMP cannot get album art

Submitted by DARKGuy on December 16, 2008 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

Problem: I recently ripped music off a CD using WMP without any internet connection (it was down when I did the rip) so now that I have internet again I went to the Find Album Info feature and tagged all the MP3s and album as found on the internet (which is really (more...)

Solution: Try to recover album art too? Duh :(

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(4 comments)

Desktop shuffle isn't very random

Submitted by DARKGuy on December 16, 2008 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Bug

Problem: With around 103+ wallpapers chosen from a specific folder, I find myself clicking Next background image a lot of times, just to see the same repeated 10-15 images over again :(

Solution: Add more "shuffle" to the desktop image shuffle algorithm.

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed