Hais Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 I've started this thread to pull together what everybody thinks should be improved in Vista. Hopefully it should unearth some good improvements you never thought of and ones you can submit into your feedback to MS. If good ideas start getting posted and other people use them in their feedback too then MS should listen and hopefully include it in the final versions of Vista. If current testers start posting and then when the beta goes public the list should grow and grow with good ideas. However this is not a bug thread so these are improvements that bear in mind this is still a beta, so no "My soundcard doesn't work" stuff please... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoDEAN Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 Working NVIDIA drivers that don't give BSOD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hais Posted May 30, 2006 Author Share Posted May 30, 2006 gizbug i'm sure your ****ed about your drivers but thats not what this thread is about... I'm talking about peoples ideas like these mentioned in other threads: Start menu design Secure Auto Login Also wheres the quick method of adding keywords to a doument? Will there be a simple way to attach an icon to a removable storage device? Could the search bar in the start menu be larger to be in proportion with the All programs button? Can they fix the way that its hard to tell which window is selected when compared side to side? Could the streaks in the glass become more animated? Could it be possible to incorporate Office's spell check feature system-wide? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Symphony Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 I would like to see: - tear off live previews on taskbar (gadget like usage) - MacOS-like labeling/coloring system for files, folders, drives - remaining free space on drives gadget - network usage gadget - lavalamp gadget (ok, just an idea :)) - xmltv support in Media Center - all commander's hot key support (F5, F6, F7...) in explorer windows - sfv check support - auto-monitoring installer applications and uninstall them with that log (not like system restore which removes downloaded files, modified files all over too - rather something like the old CleanSweep) Btw, i think that a Vista feature request in Neowin is like a ligthtower on the North Pole: it works, but what for. :rolleyes: Anyhow, i'm not a beta tester, i don't have vista, there is no public beta yet, but it felt great to write out the feature list from myself :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hiiragi Tsukasa Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 Windows Media Player The Start Menu Design How every application has it's own volume. Bread Crumb Trail in Explorer Instead of XP indexing, we have Windows Desktop Search! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattrobs Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 Also wheres the quick method of adding keywords to a doument? Didn't they used to allow one to edit meta data in the preview pane, but removed the functionality because it could have "confused" consumers? Now, 'tags' are hidden in an 'Edit' link in the preview pane, which brings up a dialog box. You can't mass-tag, and the tags aren't even shown in the preview pane! (even if you stretch it out to fit more.) I like the way Windows Photo Gallery 'tags' files: click on a picture, add tag in the preview pane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hais Posted May 31, 2006 Author Share Posted May 31, 2006 Didn't they used to allow one to edit meta data in the preview pane, but removed the functionality because it could have "confused" consumers? yeah thats what i meant. its a shame, i thought it was a perfectly good idea... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackc1990 Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 like to see anti alliasing on 3dflip. cant think of much else at this time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gxsaurav Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 Anti alliasing on Flip3D Faster file copy or move or cut Better & more drivers, OpenGL 2.0 support if this start menu is not going to be removed, then atleast give an option to use Windows XP like startmenu Where the hell is the Tool->Folder option-> file type option, so that i can indivigually change the file icons give icons like Windows XP, atleast as an option, i like my all icons as 48X48, but some folder have big icons, some have small Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hais Posted May 31, 2006 Author Share Posted May 31, 2006 thought of a few more... The power button on the start menu should shut down not standby. some way of easily distinguish a frozen app such as dimming it user be alerted when a frozen app starts responding again search bar, either start menu or general search, it should be smart enough to realise when an address is typed in instead of searching my drive for google.com Why doesn?t aero basic look like aero glass but with the transparency effects disabled? What?s with the random green progress bars? Everything is either blue or black so green is a little odd. Why is it that explorer windows still freezes when reading a CD that is scratched or browsing on a slow network connection? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Symphony Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 This whole list is quite good. It should be submitted. Seriously. :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tehrealmccoy Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 drag and drop taskbar buttons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoNo Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 Sound acceleration; I can't get my external sound card, plugged in to my computer via USV, to record sound in Vista. What is the problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackc1990 Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 gxsaurav, you said OpenGL 2.0 support there will be, these are only drivers for BETA! BETA! BETA! i wish people would realize its for testing purposes only Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gxsaurav Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 last i heard, MS was not going to support OpenGL 2.0 in DWM, they said, it cannot be supported, & it will be eumualted on the fly, via directX giving functionality of OpenGL 1.4 only Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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