Windows 7 Taskforce

make the file extensions grey and/or bold or itelic fount

Submitted by agent11 on April 2, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Usability

Problem: Some files are accedentily named incorecly as the .ectension does not stand out enough(for some people)

Solution: make the .extensions greay, bold or itelic or a mixture, to make stuff stand out, and avoid miss naming

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

(2 comments)

When mutible files/folders are selected only the file sizes are added, the folders are not inlcuded

Submitted by agent11 on April 2, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Usability

Problem: When you select mutable files in windows explorer, the total file size is displayed, but when you select files and folders, the total display disappears.

Solution: I want to see the file AND folder size added to the preview. This would be very useful.

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

Put albums with image art on top of ones without it in WMP12

Submitted by agent11 on April 6, 2009 to Aesthetics, Usability

Problem: Sometimes the albums without art are placed over ones with it making it looks ugly.

Solution: always display the albums wih album art on the stack first. to make stuff look good

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

Make the address bar in IE8 A loading bar also.

Submitted by agent11 on April 12, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Legacy, Usability

Problem: The status bar in IE looks old and a space waster.

Solution: Make the address bar in IE8 a laoding bar to, like that in apple's safari and Windows explorer address bar

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(1 comments)

A spell cheecker in IE8

Submitted by agent11 on April 1, 2009 to Usability

Problem: All the other browsers have spell cheeker, why not IE8?

Solution: add spell cheeker mabey even go futher then the copetedors and put in a gramma cheecker to?

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(1 comments)

The "middle click" scroll tool in IE, be utilized in Windows explorer.

Submitted by agent11 on May 3, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Usability

Problem: The useful middle click scrolling utitity in IE should be used in Windows explorer, also.

Solution: Implement it now...

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(3 comments)

The blue coloured menu bars don't match some custom coloured glass windows

Submitted by agent11 on April 10, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Legacy, Usability

Problem: Some custom colors for glass dosn't match the blue menu bar.

Solution: Change the menu bar colours depending on the seleted Windows glass colour.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

Superbar prieviews show to slow when hovred over

Submitted by agent11 on April 5, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Legacy, Usability

Problem: When i hover over a icon in superbar it takes much too long to show my open windows, forcing me to click and thefore being inconvidient, and also when I move my mouse away the closing animation of the previews is a bit too slow,

Solution: Just speed stuff up so the timmers is set to near instand when i hover over, mabey include a sensativity option even. and speed up the animations a tad.

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

Make all the contries themes avaliblelike i

Submitted by agent11 on June 12, 2009 to Annoyance, Bug

Problem: im from australia so i get crapy themes, of borring australia and sedney hbor crap like that, and i have to digg though the OS to unlock the cool canadian themes, like WTF mate

Solution: Fix it so i dont have to hack it to get better wallpapers!

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

If you doulbe click on a grouped icon, open last program in that group.

Submitted by agent11 on May 5, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Usability

Problem: I know that you can Ctrl+click to open up last program in that group, but double cick would be a faster option, and very much so with IE8 new tabs.

Solution: Make it open the last selected program in the tab with a double click on the icon.

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

Custom colours for Windows 7 basic theme

Submitted by agent11 on April 7, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance

Problem: The Windows 7 basic theme apart from being ugly, can only display only one colour making it even worse. To most of you, Improving Windows 7 basic theme doesn't mean much, as you will all have Aero enabled anyway, but for some people who use a net (more...)

Solution: At least let us choose a custom colour for Windows 7 basic.

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

When a program is opening, make it's icon in te superbar glow(in it's respective hot track colour), till it opens

Submitted by agent11 on April 7, 2009 to Aesthetics, Icons, Usability

Problem: When I click a program to open it it's icon glows for a while, then stops, why not make it glow till it fully opens?

Solution: Make the programs icon glow in the superbar till it opens up.

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

Make the preview of Windows media player 12 the present playing song's album art

Submitted by agent11 on April 6, 2009 to Aesthetics, Usability

Problem: The current preview of Windows media player 12, is of the normal interface. This doesn't show what song is currently playing and the preview picture could be put to more use.

Solution: Simply show the current playing song with the album art. makes things look better, and more professional. ;)

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

A "Show mouse pointer" option for the snipping tool

Submitted by agent11 on April 10, 2009 to Annoyance, Usability

Problem: No way to show cursour pointer

Solution: make an option to do so

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed