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Have you a Wish List for Windows Vista?

by John on October 19th, 2005

PC World has got a nice feature going asking readers to send in their Wish List for Windows Vista. Here’s a couple of examples :

From Jonathan Warshay
One thing that annoys me is that Windows cannot keep track of a user’s settings in Display properties. My children like to put the resolution way up high, while I prefer 1024×768. We have to keep resetting it because the setting is global rather than user based. Perhaps Microsoft can change that or create an applet to take care of it.

From Will Beuche
- PRINTABLE FOLDER CONTENTS:
Users of Windows Explorer should be able to print the list of files within folders. Simply highlight the folder, then right-click and select to print (or export) the list of file names that are within that folder.

- WARN ABOUT LONG FILE NAMES:
Windows Explorer should softly highlight any file names that are greater than 64 characters in length and advise the user that the file names are too long to backup onto DVD/CD (even though they will work fine within Windows).

- IMPROVE STABILITY OF THUMBNAILS PREVIEWS IN WINDOWS EXPLORER:
Vista should fix Windows Explorer’s tendency to spaz out when it is trying to produce thumbnails of many photos within folders. (I’ve got a gig of RAM, but even after reducing the quality setting of these thumbnail previews, my XP still fails to paint all the thumbnails when a folder has more than a few hundred pics.)

- IN THE CONTEXT MENU OF WINDOWS EXPLORER, “DELETE” SHOULD NOT BE IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO “RENAME”!

- WALLPAPERS SHOULD BE ANIMATED like on Macs. That one of the forest that turns from Spring to Fall over the course of the day is nice.

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