Things You'd Wish Would Be Implemented In Windows 7

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No more restarting upon driver installation

Adding hard drives with permissions from previous installations to not have to have so many security precautions via password

The network "diagnosis" to actually diagnose rather than restart the network adapter. (You can do this yourself.)

Same as above, though, it'd just do it's job without saying what it's doing and just do it's job.

Disable BSOD's permanently

Have all codecs and drivers manually like linux

Continue previous sessions

I got some more, but can't think of them all now.

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No more restarting upon driver installation

Adding hard drives with permissions from previous installations to not have to have so many security precautions via password

The network "diagnosis" to actually diagnose rather than restart the network adapter. (You can do this yourself.)

Same as above, though, it'd just do it's job without saying what it's doing and just do it's job.

Disable BSOD's permanently

Have all codecs and drivers manually like linux

Continue previous sessions

I got some more, but can't think of them all now.

Post yours.

99% of what you want is technically impossible or would be very unsecure. Also, BSODs help you. They end your session before stuff gets all corrupted. If you want "drivers and codecs like linux" then go use Linux. Drivers need to restart the computer. This isn't specific to Windows for a reason. Continue previous sessions would be a nice one, though, although hibernating works to the same effect, basically. Don't assign a password to your user account if you don't want to deal with the files from previous installs. Simple as that. Microsoft isn't going to remove their security just so YOU don't need to right click and choose "take ownership". Some people like security.

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99% of what you want is technically impossible or would be very unsecure. Also, BSODs help you. They end your session before stuff gets all corrupted. If you want "drivers and codecs like linux" then go use Linux. Drivers need to restart the computer. This isn't specific to Windows for a reason. Continue previous sessions would be a nice one, though, although hibernating works to the same effect, basically. Don't assign a password to your user account if you don't want to deal with the files from previous installs. Simple as that. Microsoft isn't going to remove their security just so YOU don't need to right click and choose "take ownership". Some people like security.

Almost every other operating system does not need a restart for driver installation, why does Windows still need it after 7 versions?

Saying that all of that was technically impossible is technically incorrect, because this only really occurs on Windows. I'm definitely not a stationary Linux user at all, but I have dabbled with it, and driver installation was on the fly without restarting, I honestly don't see any reason why that's impossible or why it should be.

Hibernating is not 100% efficient, it sometimes puts other hardware to "sleep" and keeps them there temporarily till the next reboot.

I did not assign a password to my account on my previous account (Windows XP,) yet I couldn't access it till I changed the permissions, and if you search on the net, you'll see this is a very big problem in Vista and 7.

I don't see how you can get just your hard drive stolen and not your whole PC, which is what I was trying to say, but had to clarify it.

THOUGH, I think one of my hardwares is messed up, but I did memory test, everything was fine, it COULD be my graphics adapter, but I didn't see anything in my event log, but I tried 7 on my brand new notebook, got a BSOD, and I replaced it for a totally new one, same thing, replaced it, it was driver issues. Maybe I do have bad luck, but I've seen 3 BSOD's so far with 7.

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@HeLGeN-X

Almost every other operating system does not need a restart for driver installation, why does Windows still need it after 7 versions?

Probably it depends of the driver. I remind restarting linux, after trying different driver, so what you are saying is not true.

It might not restart automatically, but you still have to restart to make the driver work properly.

I'm thinking especially of driver for graphic card.

Hibernating is not 100% efficient, it sometimes puts other hardware to "sleep" and keeps them there temporarily till the next reboot.

Weird. Wondering if you are not making a confusion with the default "sleep mode".

I did not assign a password to my account on my previous account (Windows XP,) yet I couldn't access it till I changed the permissions, and if you search on the net, you'll see this is a very big problem in Vista and 7.

Not clear.

Maybe I do have bad luck, but I've seen 3 BSOD's so far with 7.

Try with an other OS. If you get BSOD/ system crash, only with win7, that can be buggy drivers.

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Gio Takahashi

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No more restarting upon driver installation

Those are extremely rare now, but when you have to, you have to. No big deal. Besides, dealing with drivers are incredibly rare anyway. More than likely you're only going to deal with drivers in the first hour you work with windows, then you're set, until you buy a new hardware, which then only takes 15 to half an hour of your time, depending on what it is.

Adding hard drives with permissions from previous installations to not have to have so many security precautions via password

I've yet had an issue with this myself, but then again, I don't deal with encrypted drives. With permissions, I'm pretty sure Windows 7 can try to adjust the permissions of the files from any previous installations. In fact, Windows 7 did a pretty good job fixing any permission issues I've had when I need to. Worst come to worst, you will have to find software that will "take own" of any files if needed, but since I started using windows 7, I've never had a problem with this to begin with.

The network "diagnosis" to actually diagnose rather than restart the network adapter. (You can do this yourself.)

If memory serves vista and 7 tends to do several issues with the network during the diagnosis. I think it's fine as it is.

Same as above, though, it'd just do it's job without saying what it's doing and just do it's job.

It's useful to me, to tell me what it is doing. It would help me to realize what's wrong, and fix it and prevent the issue in the future. I work with a router with 3rd party OS, Tomato. the way Network diagnosis has been useful to me when I needed to deal with the entire home network.

Disable BSOD's permanently

We hate them, but we could use them. It help us telling wtf is wrong, and what can be fixed. Most of the time they're here to protect the computer and files from any damage and just shut it down and tells us what went wrong. It's MUCH better than back in the 9x days when we'd get constant flashing classic blue screens. So, no thanks. I'd rather keep my BSODs.

Have all codecs and drivers manually like linux

Know what kind of codecs package out there and stick to it. I don't think any copies of windows would ever need it. Would it be nice to have, sure. But I can't ever see that happening anyway. I think that people that needs codecs are just considered as a minority in windows market share. This is not a necessity that any majority would need anyway.

Continue previous sessions

Isn't that what Hibernation does? In any case. I rarely use hibernation myself, with the exception of my laptop.

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I have a few points and hope they get implemented at least in the next version (which will be a major release)

1)I wish Windows focused on reducing the number of silly and unnecessary reboots. I know that it has been considerably less compared to XP but may be they can focus on the issue a bit more.

2)A bit less cluttered and more organized Control Panel. The view by Small icons is lame presently

3)Remove all legacy crap since next version will surely be 64bit only and I'm sure XP Mode like feature would be even more improved

P.S: I have yet to see any BSOD since Vista. :huh:

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ilev

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No more restarting upon driver installation

Adding hard drives with permissions from previous installations to not have to have so many security precautions via password

The network "diagnosis" to actually diagnose rather than restart the network adapter. (You can do this yourself.)

Same as above, though, it'd just do it's job without saying what it's doing and just do it's job.

Disable BSOD's permanently

Have all codecs and drivers manually like linux

Continue previous sessions

I got some more, but can't think of them all now.

Post yours.

Get rid of the registry. No other operating system has this file.

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Kyang

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I want an image reize option photos like you had with the image re-sizer power tool.

It's not quite the same, but Windows Live Photo Gallery has a resize option, so in a sense it supposed to be in Windows, what with WLPG being part of the, "Essentials" suite.

...Kinda sorta.

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ilovetech

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i wished i have more control while installing OS by selecting the apps i need during install only.

also if they would have changed a UI a bit more compared to vista

& about BSOD: i have yet to face it.

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soldier1st

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what i would like to see is:

64 bit only

drop compatability for older apps

include ability for portables apps to work without a rebuild

i know dropping support for older stuff wont be easy but 64 bit is easier

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Omkar

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Bring back the sanity of the Control Panel for all its worth!

I totally agree with the Network Diagnostics stuff. If anyone has observed, if you network a Win7 system with WinXP, then using the 'repair' option on WInXP does nothing (in effect) and doing it on Win7 reportedly fixes "issues" on the Win7 desktop & does nothing (in effect). This is in case of an Ad-hoc network. (last time it happened, 'twas a DHCP issue, something way too obvious for Windows? to solve) So much for backward-compatibility!

For once, in a lifetime, to get the damn 'speaker fill' thing to actuallywork>!

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32 will eventually disappear. i dont see why it has to be done in win 7 right now. it doesnt support 16bits anymore so eventually 32 bit will be gone as well. in the mean time, a lot of people still have older hardware that doesnt have 64 bit drivers for it and the maker of those hardwares are too lazy to support them.

i havent used windows 7 yet. not much into beta or RC releases but what i would like to see is the ability for multiple desktop. i used to used Redhat at University and loved the idea of having 4 desktop and able to switch between them with a click. that's something i truly miss in windows. the ability to have a multiple copy and paste. i know it there in Office but i mean when try to copy files in windows explorer. i should be able to copy different sets all at once from folder and then paste each of those individually in different location. i would find something like this very useful when organizing photos into different folder as an example.

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Hmm how about something more useful...

Better dual monitor support pl0x?

I would like to natively be able to have different/spanning wallpapers and a taskbar/Superbar that can extend over multiple displays. While Ultramon and DisplayFusion do this it's cumbersome having to have an extra app to do these menial tasks and currently they are incompatible with Aero Peek or the Superbar's icon docking anyway. Furthermore I would like the system tray/clock/Show Desktop button on the opposite corner as the Start Orb rather than in the same monitor and in the middle of the desktop :(

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