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1. 7flavor

   
   Posted on: July 18, 2009 at 8:08AM  

   Any video on the shell/Explorer or more about the taskbar design? I'm some serious feedback to give and often think "WTH was the team thinking about when they designed this"?
2. Brandon LeBlanc

   

   
   Posted on: July 18, 2009 at 7:16PM  

   7flavor, what do you not like about the Windows Taskbar enhancements? We've found that the majority of people really like it.
3. 7flavor

   
   Posted on: July 19, 2009 at 2:45AM  

   Brandon, the new taskbar doesn't allow separating two same app windows when ungrouped like IE, Windows Explorer and doesn't allow making the newest started program's window button to appear on extreme right, doesn't allow Ctrl+click to select when windows aren't combined (few people know of this functionality), no Network activity animation. In its default setting it forces one more click to switch to the last used app, right clicking to close quickly is hampered as the classic context menu (which now appears by Shift+right click) had Close right next to the mouse pointer; instead jump lists have Close a few pixels away and above, the new taskbar hampers one click minimize and a click again to restore on the button since windows are all grouped, instead it only shows the preview. In the small icons setting, it wastes too much of space in between the icons and doesn't behave well with Quick launch if it is enabled. It irritates users who didn't find the old taskbar lacking in any way (except rearranging buttons) and now we can't get back 100% of functionality back as it was, some bits and pieces of functionality and interactiving with the taskbar buttons I mentioned above are missing whichever mode you set it to.
4. Tommyinoz

   
   Posted on: July 20, 2009 at 8:00PM  

   I'm with 7flavor, I've always wondered what Microsoft was thinking when they design Windows.  I just assume it was Microsoft's marketing department that makes much of the design decisions.  Thats why we get 'cool' stuff and all the practical stuff is an after thought.   Windows is getting harder and harder to administer, that's why I dread the thought of the future of Windows in our office.  

   Why did Disk Defragmenter get reduced to just buttons?  I use to get useful information out of it.  I could click on 'Analyze' then click on 'Report' and very easily spot files that were constantly growing such as anti-virus log files.  

   With Vista and Win7, why can't I start a Control Panels program as a different user, such as an Administrator?  I could do it in Windows XP!  In XP I could right click on the icon while holding the shift key down and choose 'run as..'.    I want the ability to 'add and remove' programs on users machines in my office without having to log the user off and logging in as an administrator to add or remove software.  In fact, why can't I just open/run any file/program as any user I want?  The 'runas' command sucks as it forgets the current working directory when it executes the program.  'su' and 'sudo' works better in unix/linux.  

   I could go on and on, but the list is too long.  I like some features in Win7, but basically it's mostly bells and whistles and lacks a lot of features I want that would make my life easier.  Multiuser functionality seems to be an after thought.
5. lollht

   
   Posted on: July 21, 2009 at 10:30AM  

   Love 7 but a network activity animation would be great.  It was always one of the things I liked that Windows did and Mac's didn't.  And Windows 2000 search still blows Vista and 7 away, but I guess that's gone forever.
6. lollht

   
   Posted on: July 21, 2009 at 10:35AM  

   Love 7 but a network activity animation would be great.  It was always one of the things I liked that Windows did and Mac's didn't.  And Windows 2000 search still blows Vista and 7 away, but I guess that's gone forever.