Bugs in Classic Theme of Windows Vista

[A.] FIRST BUG:

1. Change the Windows theme to “Windows Classic“.
2. Now open “System Properties” (sysdm.cpl) and goto “Advanced” tab and click on “Settings” button in “Performance” section.
3. Now uncheck the option “Show previews and filters in folders“. Apply it.
4. Now open My Computer.

Now Menubar is automatically shown in My Computer. I can’t understand why Menubar is related to Preview & filters? OK, no problem. BUT…..

Now click on “Organize -> Layout” and STRANGE!!! Menubar is unchecked even its showing in My Computer. And the most strange thing is that nothing will happen if you’ll enable / disable this option. Try to enable “Menubar” or disable “Menubar”, nothing will change and Menubar will always be there.

So IMO, if this option can’t do anything then it should be disabled. Whats the use of enabling an option if it can’t do anything?

[B.] SECOND BUG:

1. Change the theme of your Windows Vista to “Windows Classic“.
2. Open My Computer and look carefully at the “Back” and “Forward” buttons in Toolbar!

3. Now hover ur mouse to “Little Down Arrow” just after the “Forward” button.

What u see?

A. First thing is that the Back & Forward button are a little bit far from background image. They should be placed at 1 or 2 pixels less from left.

B. When we hover the mouse at “Little Down Arrow”, the background image is mis-placed from its actual position and a little curve is displayed just before the addressbar.

These are very small issues and not very noticeable.

PS: Try it urself and u can understand what I’m talking about or just save the images at ur computer and look at them one by one.

[C.] THIRD BUG:

Open Windows Explorer in Windows Classic theme and guess what? The “Up” button will not be visible (it should be there just after the “Forward” button). But if u’ll move ur mouse at that place u can see the tool tip “Recent Pages”.

So the button is there but is not visible. A BIG goof-up. And if u look carefully, the buttons “Back” and “Forward” are correctly placed in this condition but as soon as u’ll open any drive or anything, they will be mis-placed.

[D.] FOURTH BUG:

1. Make sure u r using “Windows Classic” theme in Vista.
2. Open Windows Media Player.
3. Open any video file.
4. Look carefully at the bottom bar of WMP, u’ll see the time duration of the video file but it’ll be hardly visible.
5. Now maximize WMP and guess what? U can’t see the time duration. WHY???

Its really too annoying. If I’m watching a movie and want to know about time duration, then I can’t. I’ll hv to exit from Full screen mode and then I’ll be able to know about time duration.

If u r using Basic or Aero theme, the time duration will be visible in Full Screen mode.

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