Windows 7 Wish List

[Calum Veteran]

Explorer already has Tile View. Are there other exceptions besides the Desktop you're concerned about?

Yeah, it was basically that the 'Tile View' in Windows Explorer still keeps the icons small. I was thinking about maybe text at the side of the larger icons (and also smaller text, underneath the name of the icon, with details about that item. E.g. the 'Computer' icon would have "16GB free of 80GB" and general folders would have "1243 files" underneath the title at the side of the icon).

The same would apply to the Desktop. Same sized icons as in Windows Explorer (large or extra large) with the same sort of text at the side and details underneath this text, smaller.

Does that make sense? What do you think to that idea?

It wouldn't have to be at the side, but it could be underneath?

Unfortunately, this also changes the font size lots of other places =/

Ahh, I can't believe I forgot about this option, thank you. That is OK, but as you say, the font size still randomly changes in other areas of the OS ('Start Menu', the Windows Explorer breadcrumbs, etc).

It would be much better if these font sizes only changed on the icons in Windows Explorer & the Desktop (and maybe have a separate option for size of fonts in the Start Menu and breadcrumbs).

That makes sense to me. I think it would start to allow for a bit better customisation of the OS, within reason :)

[liveseven]

A Business / Professional Theme. That is not light blue (Vista Basic) but instead a bit more like Windows XP's Luna. With no transparencies - that would really make a difference for me.

Why not aero with out transparencey

Umm, you can turn off transparency in the Aero theme. It looks about a billion times more professional than Luna.

+1.

you guys should have made this instead of the ugly vista basic. Sure the blue is a lot better then the gray in the beta but its still ugly. its nice that you can chnage the ciolors to

[hjf288]

That can't happen. If you kill a process with Task Manager, it is dead.

There are extremely, extremely rare cases where a process may appear to stick around. Like, if you launched it with something that's keeping a handle to it open. In that case, the process object sticks around but none of the code, data, or any of the process's threads are really there.

Part of it may also stick around if it's stuck in the middle of some I/O operation in kernel land, though if that happens for more than a couple seconds you almost certainly have a busted driver. Apparently older versions of ZoneAlarm and all current versions of Hauppauge's TVR drivers are fairly good examples of drivers that get stuck with APCs disabled, preventing processes from being killed properly.

More detail:

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/.../23/192531.aspx

Thats what I thought.. I was trying to launch a game, it changed res and got stuck.. so I tried to end the process and it says Process 2419 has been terminated, yet it remained in the taskbar and in memory consuming 19mb of ram.

It had one thread in ntdll.dll according to Process Explorer - using Advanced process terminator, it reckoned it suspended the threads but none of its many kill techniques could kill it - "Process still appears to be running, kill was unsuccessful"

Rebooting was the only way to get rid of it... :/

[Vykranth]

What I would like for Windows 7?

* That's not Windows, that's Intellipoint, but a magnifier function which works without the awfully glitches/refresh resize currently done with IP 6.2

* a better Flip 3D: in fact, SmartFlip's implementation of Flip3d with the circular carrousel is much better

* For Windows Media Player, the notion of a sub-genre: let's say I have plenty of soundtracks CD but I want to add the distinction between Game, Movie, TV soundtrack without having to use the 'Artist' field instead

* The ability to name removable disks with meaningful names: more than the 8 Upper case limit

That may be a limit of FAT32, though

The autorun.inf label trick does not always work with my USB thumb drive and I have no clue why.

* Better integration of the products of other Microsoft division: why the hardware division LifeChat and Intellipoint Pro software install a 'Check for Update' shortcut? Should not that be handled by Windows Update?

But that's not my biggest wish, my biggest wish would be that Microsoft works harder with ISV and Hardware vendors

* so that ISV finally learn to make good windows applications that behave properly: for example, skins for skinable applications should go to C:\Users\Public\<Company Name>, not C:\Program Files\<Application Install Dir>, Registry settings should be clearly distinguished between user settings (that go into HKCU\Software) and global application settings (that go into HKLM\Software)

* so that Hardware vendors produce quality drivers for their hardware included in the Windows 7 DVD or readily available on Windows Update.

And when I mean "works harder with ISV and HV", I mean "hammer the **** of them" until they write their software correctly.

While I am at it, a Visual Studio with the Office 2007 Ribbon Interface, I am a big fan of the Ribbon interface and I do think that Visual Studio would become a greater IDE with the Ribbon interface.

[Linkinfamous]

The autorun.inf label trick does not always work with my USB thumb drive and I have no clue why.

I believe how Windows handles autorun.inf files depends on how the device reports itself to the computer. There's a flag somewhere for it embedded in the device's firmware.

* Better integration of the products of other Microsoft division: why the hardware division LifeChat and Intellipoint Pro software install a 'Check for Update' shortcut? Should not that be handled by Windows Update?

+1.

I want to see Windows Update expanded into a system-wide update center. There's no need for every app to have to invent its own automatic updater.

What we need is the ability for developers to register their apps with the updater, and when it goes to check for updates, query all of the registered apps update servers, and offer the updates for 3rd party software in a big list.

Edited June 6, 2008 by MioTheGreat

[Windam]

A Garage Band like application

Native open source codec support in wmp (ape,flac etc.) (avi, xvid, h264)

A nicer shell (similar to Leopard: stainless steel)

And a more sophisticated movie maker

[offroadaaron]

I better way of multitasking!!!!!!!!! Like mac os and compiz fusion. Multiple desktops, expose.

[liveseven]

And a more sophisticated movie maker

I heard the wave 3 or wave 4 of the windows live products will include a live movie maker with newer more advance features.

I rather just use the nero one..... hey, have nero preinstalled

[PL_ Veteran]

Why do you need a complete cli environment in a home version of windows?

We have a winner! The amount of people who'd care about a CLI environment is minimal, and the people that really do care are stuck on 98's MS-DOS mode.

• Good luck with that. last I heard they will ditch the 2000 skin and stick with the newer designs. nothings worng with vista, its far better then xps ugly childish UI. dont like it, dont use it. (BTW, vista still includes the old 98 skin)
  

kids and their dumb ideas

Don't tell me it's true, the 2000 skin rocks.

[Linkinfamous]

Don't tell me it's true, the 2000 skin rocks.

Compared to a nice DWM enabled theme?

Yuck. You can keep your window tearing and redrawing nastiness.

[liveseven]

Movie maker has the same look as in XP. They just added the black glossy look over the badge.

I hope for a major revamp in movie maker. Even if we have to pay a bit extra for a feature pack, oh wait thats what ultimate extras is. and ultimate extras should include these updates and features instead of stupid sounds and packs that can be used on any system!

[Dc'1]

I would like it to use less resources... Not because I have a ****ty computer, but because, less is more. Less resources used means more for other programs :)

But if that was not possible, I would like it to be made faster.

[zerologic]

Componentize Windows Seven.

I don't care for Internet Explorer (Prefer Firefox), Windows Defender (Prefer Kaspersky Internet Security 2009), Windows Media Player (Prefer WinAMP or VLC), Microsoft Games, MSPaint or Windows Movie Maker.

So I would like to choose not to install components I don't want from the standard Windows Installation. That would make me happy.

[Windam]

Componentize Windows Seven.

I don't care for Internet Explorer (Prefer Firefox), Windows Defender (Prefer Kaspersky Internet Security 2009), Windows Media Player (Prefer WinAMP or VLC), Microsoft Games, MSPaint or Windows Movie Maker.

So I would like to choose not to install components I don't want from the standard Windows Installation. That would make me happy.

so instead of downloading firefox from ie

you'll just plug in a flash drive to install?

[EnzoFX]

I very much doubt they'll go with a leopard theme...

[Jayayess1190]

Was supposed to quote zer0L0gic, didn't work.

I want this too, except keep IE to download Firefox and then use it when Firefox is not working.

[TonyLock]

What about a more simple control panel?

[x-byte]

- Ship it with 64 bit only version.

- Improved Windows Explorer where you can customize your view more.

- Let it actually remember folder view settings this time.

[Brandon Live Veteran]

- Ship it with 64 bit only version.

I can't even begin to understand how this is a "feature."

[x-byte]

It's not....

[Calum Veteran]

Yeah one major thing I've thought of, Brandon, is why does it have an option to "Remember folder views", yet it doesn't remember them!? :/

Bit weird isn't it?

This should actually work in Windows 7 or they should take the option out altogether...

Edited June 11, 2008 by cJr.

[Stup0t]

I think what they need to do is create windows 7 on a low spec crap pc and make it run good on that, then all the rest is gravey :)

[Brandon Live Veteran]

Yeah one major thing I've thought of, Brandon, is why does it have an option to "Remember folder views", yet it doesn't remember them!? :/

Bit weird isn't it?

This should actually work in Windows 7 or they should take the option out altogether...

View settings are remembered on a per-folder basis. So if you go to a particular folder, change it to Details and move around the columns, it will be that way when you come back (unless you blow it away with the "Apply To Folders" button on another folder of the same type).

That said, we know that even with SP1 there are some reports of lost view settings, so we are spending additional resources to try and track down any possible corruption bugs that might effect this. So far, there are no known issues or anything found in testing that we can fix (that wasn't already addressed in SP1).

[jjrambo]

View settings are remembered on a per-folder basis. So if you go to a particular folder, change it to Details and move around the columns, it will be that way when you come back (unless you blow it away with the "Apply To Folders" button on another folder of the same type).

That said, we know that even with SP1 there are some reports of lost view settings, so we are spending additional resources to try and track down any possible corruption bugs that might effect this. So far, there are no known issues or anything found in testing that we can fix (that wasn't already addressed in SP1).

:blink:

[jjrambo]

1. More 3D Effects like Cube3d.

2. Virtual Desktops.

3. Antivirus as part of Security Center.

4. Can we replace Paint with something better like? Some people are not willing to spend hundreds of $$$ for ittle bit more features then what Paint have.

5. Word replacement...some stripped down version of Word?

6. Too many email clients. Windows Mail, Live Mail?

7. Live software suite should be part of Windows.

8. More themes.

9. Change Windows Classic with true Windows 2000 look and feel which had specific shades of gray color as well as font size.

10. Download manage as IE feature. Internet Download Manager is a good example.

11. Support for PDF.

12. Support for some new video formats like h.264.

13. Media Center needs more options to control size of the screen, and pick different TV formats.

14. Support for rar, and other archive types.

Edited June 12, 2008 by jjrambo