[Wishlist] Features You Want to See in Next Windows Version

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1. 1. Yes, but i don`t need it.
   2. Yes, but i don`t need it.
   3. No
   4. No, ribbon is the best feature of new Explorer! I don`t need those old scary dialogs and menus.
   5. Yes
   6. Yes
   7. Yes, but i don`t need it in old form.
   8. Yes
   9. Yes
   10. No, almost nobody use it.
   11. Yes.

2. To be added – run Metro Apps in Desktop Windows – as with Modern Mix from Stardock.

   About the point 2 – tere are already 2 methods to enter directluy to the desktop – runing StartisBack wich has a antive implementation for this, and a less known method – installing a certificate file ( XRM-MS ) wich gives you this posibility, by changing some parameters in the tokkens.dat

3. WoW! Great Article. I ever raed any Article like this. I think it would be great if the Tranparency present in next Windows version.

   Impressing Hard Work!
   Thanks for Sharing with us VG’

4. For me:

   Ribbon in File Explorer needs to be improved to be similar to Ribbon in Office 2013:
   Able to customize the Ribbon, Quick Access Toolbar and keyboard shortcuts.
   “New Tab”, “New Group”, “Rename”, and import/export the customization.

   Able to add custom command to Quick Access Toolbar.

   Lastly, I would like to see the “transparency hack” still works in next Windows version.

5. Agree with most but 8 and 10.

   8: Screenshots to compare?

   10: If 1st is done, Win+X menu should be removed altogether as it simply is not needed.

   Also, like some people said, Aero should come back.

6. Hell of the good article. Exactly like this. I have spoken. Period.

7. The reason I upgraded from Windows 8 to Windows 7 is because..
   When I run games, Windows 8 has these cool effects on that I don’t need (since my game is fullscreen), I cannot disable these effects (the new aero theme) and since I have an crappy computer, the theme eats my FPS

   Windows 7 (Basic theme): 20FPS
   Windows 8 (New theme) : 6FPS

   See the difference?

8. Good list. I agree with most of it. Another one I’d like to see is option to display the screen with userids to log in to. I have an admin and user class IDs. But stupid windows 8 assumes which ID I want to log in to.

9. What I find most offensive about all MS new OS is that they continually shuffle locations and rename items and functions in the file system. Starting with XP, the amount of change has increased geometrically with each new release. They do similar reshuffling with their programs.

   I am not interested in new features if it means I have to waste hours trying to figure out how to make old programs work or trying to find locations of my old data. Companies with employees that use MS products to do their jobs must cringe with every new release or even update out of MS. The cost to these companies in the time wasted by employees to relearn could be enormous.

   Adding up time saved in all the new features provided in their OS and programs I can’t think of even one that was in the least bit a significant time saver. Only a few new features actually worked better, and many worked not as well.

   Lately, have been getting up to speed with Linux. That is my solution to MS headaches. Had I stated to learn Linux 10 years ago I would be a very proficient user of Linux by now if I had just diverted the time wasted on MS products to Linux.

   Vishal, you have had some excellent advice with solutions to MS short comings and just figuring out how it works. Have you considered directing some of your time to Linux? I believe consumers of software have grown very tired of Microsoft methods.

10. How about: making it easy to print stuff
    not having flash player built in and usable in IE on Win 8 mode.

11. Add Windows 7 Transparency and Aero Glass…
    also re-enable a tweak to change Logon background…
    Lets see if Microsoft would add them all…:)

12. They could be a option in windows for the wish list to be able to change your UI for the PC and even use PowerPoint’s as templates for your new UI and a choice to make a PowerPoint presentation for the template for your new UI.

    If that was then that would be awesome! 😉

13. A future Windows wishlist??? hmmmmm.

    I’d like to see an account, either Facebook login, Gmail l/p, or msn passport/hotmail account tied to my Windows for themes, backrounds, “Trev related stuffs”.

    Google Chrome can sync yer site /w multiple devices, for bookmarks, I believe Windows of the future should expand on that. My Starcraft mouse cursor being reset EVERY format is one of HUNDREDS of cool little things I’d like between the computers I use.

    Xbox live keeps user data you can load onto your console….games, profiles, all that junk, PC should do the same.

    …DRIVERS for example. lol. Every successful driver install should add it to my profile for that machine and save it for later…..reformat???? No problem!!! Simply log in, download the saved drivers or updated ones, and carry on.

    I can save my user data on a hard drive but a nice 32gb online drive space for these official things is WORTH 50/year…..or free to keep windows the standard, whatever.

    Installed aps in program files is small enough. Tho sometimes registry settings are needed and can’t copy/paste out of there expecting programs to work.

    Copying .exe files upon successful install to your online drive would work tho. I’m sure I can do all this manually on a usb drive, for myself, just thinking of everyone here.

    Having my Starcraft, Warcraft 2, and other game install exe’s saved in my windows profile would make for an easier time on the reinstall…

    WinRAR, VLC Media Player, Firefox, Chrome, Adblock, Peerblock, Flashblock, Gogle Talk, ATI Drivers, Creative Sound Blaster Drivers, Comodo Free Firewall, Spybot Search & Destroy, Ad-aware, if we had a nice way to auto check boxes of aps we’ve installed before, check for updates, and have it personalized for Windows users, to me it’s worth $$$ per year to hold all this for me, a better direction than 100+/copy, per machine. Being an online service, like Xbox 360, it’d “encourage” users to pay a bit for all this handy stuff.

    I mean, how many times have you had to reinstall puds for Warcraft 2, losing your collection of maps to play b/c of some damn reinstall??? A smart restore could save stuff from the program files folders. Some prefer offline Windows, and that’s cool too, but for fully paid Members, why NOT offer a bunch of useful stuff to have more reasons to WANT to pay??? 😉

    How many times have I lost my cool wallpapers b/c of a format? =(
    Winamp has a mp3 converter plugin I often forget to reinstall, whatever plays, like SNES to .mp3 tracks converted, always lose that one. Chun Yu’s MP3 converter…

    …k, end rant. 😀

14. Microsoft should fire up something like this:windowsphone.uservoice.com
    …for the next Windows version ;D

    My Wishlist:

    == Unsorted ==
    – Holding CTRL makes the topmost window semitransparent
    – Explorer: Replace searchfield by a “Search here”-Button, which fires up a nice search interface
    (in a separate window)
    – Display IP + Gateway directly in the network list (directly or when holding CTRL)
    – Alarm Clock + Countdown Timer integrated in the systray-clock
    – Versioned Live-Backup of selected drives or folders to one or more destinations (FTP, WebDAV, other HDD, cloud providers)
    – Extended version of the audio mixer (free audio routing)
    – Integrated Intel WiDi Support (with streaming of whole desktop)
    – Cache the content of network drives (and ftp drives, …) on a local drive for faster access
    (only transfer modified or files/folders not in cache, customizable cachesize)
    – Option to automatically re-login users after reboot (caused by windows update, software-updates, etc.)
    (Already existing Restart Manager API will then restart applications, lock screen directly after auto-login)

    == Clipboard ==
    – Keep a history of the last x entries
    – Something like CTRL+V, but without any formatting and trimmed
    – Copying files to a Remotedesktop-Session via Clipboard oftens cancels itself when copying something else locally during the transfer

    == API ==
    – Extended version of GetLastError():
    Returns in addition to the system error code (like ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER) a list of key-value pairs
    Result for a failed CreateDIBSection() could be:
    { “Parameter”=”pbmi”, “ExtendedInfo”=”Member biPlanes must always be set to 1”, … }
    – Notification-API
    – Allow any application or service to generate notifications (text and/or image)
    – the applications manifest-file/registry-entry states which notifications the app could generate
    – The user can route specific notification-types to balloon tips, emails, facebook, external devices (LCDs attached to the pc, smartphones, …)

    == Devices ==
    – Support for USB Audio Class 2
    – Bluetooth SerialPort-Profile (without writing a custom *.inf)
    – Integrate S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring Service

15. VG, I think this page needed to be update 😛

    Or maybe just post link to the [Exclusive] Windows 8.1 Features List at the top article.

    PS: It’s really great that Microsoft listen to the users and release Windows 8.1.

16. My only wish is for powershell to turn more into bash, for example:
    tools like git, npm, gem etc to include tab autocompletion
    have an actual fullscreen mode
    word wrap should work as word wrap, not as a string that has a new-line character in between it
    more customization properties

17. @VG
    Atlast microsoft to include shut down option at the start screen in the windows 8.1 update 1.
    See top right in the image below:
    postimg.org/image/7yuja46lf/

    -26th Jan 2014, 16:46 GMT

18. ^^ Yep. It seems Microsoft is listening to users requests.

19. Windows wish-list??
    Be great to be able to have a place to put notes on files somewhere……

    …………… so you can right click & get a place to put text…….

    cheers

20. Add the win xp repair install feature to win7\8.Also make the forced reformat an option for a re-install so we don’t loose our game activation files.

21. i wish that alt- tab feature should be exclusive to only windows native softwares.
    notifications should have some specific place.. so we can see the missed notifications.

22. Here is my list of fixes/changes that *might* encourage me to return to Windows as my primary operating system (I have 11 PCs/Laptops at home).

    1. return of Aero Glass
    2. Get rid of the pre-school flat, boring graphics look entroduced with Windows 8
    3. Get rid of start screen
    4. Reduce dependence on online services & social networking (I don’t use social networking, cloud, stores, etc). At present there are complications and downsides to not using them when using Windows 8.x
    5. Restart the TechNet Service
    6. Fix the multitude of bugs in Task Manager
    7. Bring Back the Backup and Restore functions, and dump file recovery
    8. Put back the functionality gutted from Explorer.
    9. Start menu as in Windows 7. Desktop only for desktop computers/laptops
    10. Make updates & Patches available outside “windows store”. I’m never going to use Microsoft’s Store services
    11. Put the games back. I’m not going to go to Windows store to get them
    12. Put back Windows DVD Maker
    13. Put back persistent shadow copies.
    14. Add back functionality removed from “Manage Wireless networks” I don’t want to have to open a cmd window to use netsh all the time. Netsh doesn’t support all the functionality anyway.
    15. Add functionality back for libraries, and allow libraries to be created for network locations without the need for 3rd Party tools.
    16. Add support for DDR4 (assuming CPU support), and USB 3.1 (assuming mobo support).
    17. Get rid of the ribbon and bring back toolbars. Smaller, neater, more mature and not so “pre-school looking”.
    18. Allow the entire folder tree view in the navigation pane cannot be collapsed vertically in explorer.
    19. Reinstate “The Remember each folder’s view settings option to set Explorer to persist or not persist folder views and icon sizes per folder”
    20. reinstate the ability for “Windows Explorer to remember individual folder window sizes and positions”. Each folder window shares the same size, and their position cascades as more windows are opened”.
    21. Allow users to select either Quick Launch or Pinned Applications. When an application is installed when using Quick launch do not create a pinned application icon.

    I’m sure there’s more.. but can’t think of them off the top of my head.

23. To upgrade to Windows 10 for free (when OS is finished in April)

24. ~ Put back Windows DVD Maker — i used that!
    ~ Actually give us a new, Updated Windows Media Player!!! I’m sick of Windows Media 12! Windows Media Player 11 was the last “good” media player.
    ~ Updated Media Center?

25. I wish they would bring back the old windows update like XP had, I want the choice of which updates I install, plus it was good to have the optional updates too.

26. When I select a file, then click again to make the file name text editable, it is most annoying that the text of the file name then jumps a few pixels to the left. I have a lot of file names that I need to change one word in each name. I put the mouse at the right point in the text to select the word I am changing, but then when I click the file name again to make the text editable, the text moves. I then have to move the mouse slightly to be in the right place again. This becomes very tiresome when one is changing a large number of file names. Can’t the text just stay where it was when it is clicked to make it editable?

27. It is preposterous to call this list “Features YOU want to see”. It should be “Features I want to see”. I like to decide for myself what I think.

28. The feature I want back is the classic search function in Windows Explorer by file name and content.

29. will these wishes will be done?

30. ^^ Microsoft has implemented many suggested features already and I hope remaining will be implemented in future builds.