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First of all, before any of you think that the first improvement is to disable Metro, you are wrong. Metro has been a start, but I feel it needs to be polished further.
- Allow multiple dragging in Start Screen. They added multiple selections (Thanks God), but need to have the ability to multiple drag objects at the same time.
- Have an option to extend the Start Screen through all the screens (When having 2+ of them).
- Have a “metro-ized” Windows Explorer. (Like Internet Explorer with its 2 versions)
- When clicking on the network icon or something else, it triggers a humongous vertical rectangle; make it so it doesn’t take part of the taskbar (when positioned horizontally).
- Jump Menu in Start Screen. One of the biggest features of Win 7 Start Menu was the ability of a jump list which was great for launching recent files. This could be implemented like this:
- Right click on an icon and on the upper screen or in the bar that comes from below, make a list appear displaying the most recent or pinned items.
- Add an optional shortcut to shutdown/restart/hibernate/sleep faster (Could be at the user’s tile).
- Have a folder or make folders with an animated effect of contracting and expanding its content (fading or scrolling effect). contents. This is to make the Start Screen more organized. I wouldn’t like to meet it when it reaches to 100+ programs (Zoom will not help)
- Have more than 2 metro apps running at the screen. I believe that having 2 at a time (max) is not enough. There are many of them that can be split in fewer dimensions.
- Have a keyboard combination or a mouse gesture which allows resizing the Metro Apps to your own like + an option of Tile Vertically, Horizontally or Stacked (Within the Metro Ecosystem).
- Option to have multiple background images so it can fit the proportions (or make a still one with a background, much like implementing the Desktop’s wallpaper configuration to it) of the screen .
- Allow the Start Screen to pin items wherever you want, as Desktop Style. What I mean is to allow putting an item in a position you want without the other moving to another column. (I was ****ed off with the CP and DP when I tried organizing the items the way I liked)
- Add the RGB combination of colors to the Start Screen.
- Make dark window-colors readable when Aero Basic is enabled. Try putting it black, you won’t be able to read the current Window at all.
- All-Search (Independent). It’s a very welcomed feature the distribution of search within a specified category (Files, Settings and Programs), but I feel that they need to bring back the unsorted search like Windows Vista/7; you could press start and search anything and the first thing that pops up would generally match what you were looking for. (This could be triggered through a WinKey combination)
- Make a mini-start screen available. There are many people which are infuriated with Metro for taking away their focus on what they were originally doing.
- Dramatically improve the Metro Versions of Video and Music Players: Make it more Zune.
- Make the start button an option. Could be disabled by default, but I feel uncomfortable when I need to go to the edge of the screen to trigger the Start Screen (Although I believe I’ll get used to it in time).
- Make Kinect gestures available to the Metro interface. It’s perfectly usable with Kinect, why not implement it by default?
- Add the ability to multiple select the files instantaneously with the mouse. This is the same as selecting multiple files when pressing the left button of the mouse (without letting go of it) and going all over the files. Shift combination should also be implemented.
Well, there they are. I haven't come up with anything else to improve Win8 experience, so what do you guys think?
