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Most recent submissions by user "antiufo"

Registered since: June 21, 2008

57 +58/-1 votes

Windows Media Player: "Find album information" is very bad

Submitted by antiufo on September 16, 2009 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

fai.music.metaservices.microsoft.com should return more accurate metadata.

* No duplicate albums and low-quality metadata
* Better search and auto-search function (see the screenshot)
* DON'T show results that don't (more...)

Integrate metadata from Last.fm, Amazon, or use the power of Bing, powerset and the semantic html

High

Medium

Not fixed

(2 comments)

23 +25/-2 votes

AJAX does not work on windows7taskforce.com without www.

Submitted by antiufo on July 28, 2009 to Bug, Website suggestions

Open http://windows7taskforce.com/, instead of http://www.windows7taskforce.com/
(more...)

windows7taskforce.com should immediatly redirect to www.windows7taskforce.com

Low

Low

Fixed

31 +37/-6 votes

Internet Explorer 8 uses inconsistent Import/Export wizard

Submitted by antiufo on July 2, 2009 to Aesthetics, Legacy

Open Internet Explorer, File -> Import and Export

This wizard has many inconsistencies if compared with standard wizards:

* The background of the caption whold be white
* Wrong color for the title of the caption, (more...)

At least fix the colors.

Low

Low

Not fixed

20 +23/-3 votes

Use Live Skydrive UI for slideshow

Submitted by antiufo on June 27, 2009 to Aesthetics

Windows Live Skydrive can display pictures as slideshow, and is very cool.
It would be nice to use this UI in Windows (too late for 7, maybe for 8) or in Windows Live Photo.

If the slideshow is playing automatically, make images (more...)

Low

High

Not fixed

21 +29/-8 votes

Recycle bin should be removable from the desktop using the context menu

Submitted by antiufo on June 12, 2009 to Aesthetics, Usability

Computer, Documents and Network can be esily hidden from the desktop once they are enabled, because they have a "Delete" command in their context menus.
Recycle bin doesn't have it, so the only way to disable it is using the control (more...)

Add a "Delete" or "Hide from the desktop" item to the context menu of desktop recycle bin. Show a confirmation dialog that explains how to restore it.

Perhaps rename "Delete" to "Hide from the desktop" (more...)

Low

Low

Not fixed

15 +18/-3 votes

"Incoming connections" troubleshooting wizard should explain how to forward router ports

Submitted by antiufo on June 6, 2009 to Usability

Control Panel\Troubleshooting includes a useful wizard to open a port on Windows Firewall, but it does not explain how to forward a port on the router to allow access to the computer over the internet.

Use UPnP or DPWS are available, or explain how to open the router page on the browser, set a static ip and forward ports.

Low

High

Not fixed

26 +33/-7 votes

Typing "uninstall" from Start Menu should display "Uninstall a program" as first result

Submitted by antiufo on June 5, 2009 to Annoyance, Usability

Usually to uninstall a program I open the start menu and I begin to type "uninstall" to open Control panel\Programs

Most installers still add a Uninstall shortcut to the start menu, and they are displayed before the control panel (more...)

When typing this word, show the Control Panel section before Programs.
***Swap the two sections ONLY in this case, obviously, not for every keyword.***

Low

High

Not fixed

24 +28/-4 votes

Allow to preload a specific account after the boot

Submitted by antiufo on May 31, 2009 to Usability

Allow to preload a specific account after the boot.

This would allow to:

* start the computer, go away and get a perfectly ready computer, except for the password to unlock the computer
* start the computer and automatically (more...)

It wouldn't be technically difficult, it would be something similar to automatic login and lock, maybe for Windows 8

Low

Medium

Not fixed

10 +15/-5 votes

New tab icon does not disappear after right clicking it.

Submitted by antiufo on May 31, 2009 to Bug

The new tab icon appears only when you hover it.
If you right-click it nothing happens, but then moving the mouse out the button does not hide the icon.

Low

Low

Not fixed

15 +19/-4 votes

Drag'n'drop for Remote Desktop Connection

Submitted by antiufo on May 28, 2009 to Annoyance, Usability

Allow to use drag'n'drop to transfer files from a remote desktop connection session to the main computer and vice-versa

Low

Low

Not fixed

27 +30/-3 votes

Desktop Peek + Flip3d has a strange effect

Submitted by antiufo on May 20, 2009 to Bug

* Move the mouse over the desktop button on the taskbar
* Press and don't release WIN+TAB
* Move the mouse out the desktop button

You get two copies of every window: Flip 3d and normal window

Low

Low

Not fixed

28 +28/-0 votes

Low quality and xp style Copy Network Settings image

Submitted by antiufo on May 20, 2009 to Aesthetics, Legacy

Open the a Wireless Network Properties window and click "Copy this network profile to a USB flash drive" (I don't know if it exists for wired connections too)

The image in the wizard:

* has xp-style arrow and (more...)

replace the image

Low

Low

Not fixed

48 +50/-2 votes

Bring back Microsoft Tinker (Vista Ultimate Extras)

Submitted by antiufo on May 15, 2009 to Usability

Microsoft Tinker is an interesting game released as Ultimate Extras, but it can't be downloaded with Windows 7 because it no longer supports Ultimate Extras.

Include Tinker in Ultimate / Home Premium editions, a standard game for every edition, or as optional download.

Low

High

Fixed

36 +36/-0 votes

Ugly controls when displaying a visualization in Media Center

Submitted by antiufo on May 12, 2009 to Aesthetics, Bug

Open Windows Media Center, start a song and open a visualization. The controls are inside ugly black rectangles.

Low

Medium

Not fixed

32 +32/-0 votes

Slideshow is displayed as strange window in Flip3d

Submitted by antiufo on May 12, 2009 to Aesthetics, Bug

Open the Slideshow view in a folder containing images, and then press WIN+TAB.
An empty, small window is displayed as Slideshow, instead of the actual image.

Low

Low

Not fixed

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