QOTD: What Would You Remove/Add to Win 7?
Windows is the undisputed king of operating systems. That's no secret. But Windows is also the center of a lot of criticism.
Windows is the undisputed king of operating systems. That's no secret. But Windows is also the center of a lot of criticism.
Over the years, Windows has grown in size. The Windows that exists today, is no doubt, superior to Windows of years ago. However, there are things that I am hoping Microsoft will deploy in Windows 7 when it ships, such as the ability to remove Windows features that you don't want.
The web browser is also the center of controversy for Microsoft. However, it's good that there's one that ships with Windows so you can actually go online after an install and grab all your usual updates, applications, and tools.
The question of the day is: What would you remove from or add to Windows if you were in charge of it at Microsoft?

To relieve this problem, All Programs list should always be "All the programs on the computer" and in this list, there should be a check box to hide all the programs that aren't yours, or to only show your programs. To add to this, it might also be useful to add an avatar beside the program to show who installed what.
Also get rid of the stupid readme files, and uninstall.exe's in the all programs list. This list should ONLY have the program executable file.
Richard.
never use them anyway
Too often to I go to friends houses or even their parents listening to them talking about how slow their computer is running or how long it takes to boot only to find so much trash running in the background, things they don't use at all and have no clue how to disable.
The whole MSN experience as well. Make it an option to install.
2. I would simplify networking. Plug machine A into machine B and they automatically connect.
To relieve this problem, All Programs list should always be "All the programs on the computer" and in this list, there should be a check box to hide all the programs that aren't yours, or to only show your programs. To add to this, it might also be useful to add an avatar beside the program to show who installed what.
Also get rid of the stupid readme files, and uninstall.exe's in the all programs list. This list should ONLY have the program executable file.
Additionally, get rid of the stupid readme files and uninstall.exe's in the start menu. Only a shortcut to the programs executable file should belong in the start menu.
deltatux
Who am I kidding.!? It's not like MS is ever going to listen to us. They will continue to monopolize the OS market and don't really care what people or businesses want. They feel they can just tell everyone what to do and how to do it and charge us our first born for it.
It would also be nice to get a better description of what's running already, Vista is listing 13 svchost running right now, XP usually had 3 to 9, why? no clue...
A better process explorer would be nice in hunting down files that are mysteriously in use when they shouldn't be, rather than getting an 'access denied' message, explaining what is actually using the file would save some panic...
An easy way to modify the alpha channel in Aero would be nice, presently it only really lets you choose a colour.
I also don't care for the Libraries feature. I've never really used it, but there's really no need for it imo. It's just another feature added to confuse new users. BUT this is my first impression, i may end up using it down the road and like it, who knows.
I haven't found an option to remove/disable the quick desktop peek thing that resides in the corner of my taskbar. I don't use desktop icons and have no use for this feature, i'd like to be able to turn it off. Mainly so i don't have that little rectangle in the corner ><
A Standard DOS interface for really old games would be awesome. It's easily done with a DOS emulator like DOSbox but it'd be nice to have stock.
The ability to uninstall the stock unzipping program so it can be replaced with an after-install one like WinRAR. That'd be sweet.
Other then those things and the obvious early driver support, i am very pleased with the way Windows 7 is right now.
Noticeably fewer running Processes under normal use. 45 processes vs Vista's 64-bit 76 processes (55 processes after tweaking).
Good ideas from the unix like systems: Registry (i don't know if it exists in windows 7 but it shouldn't), limit applications footprint, startup program control (like many have stated), MSN experience (should be optional), Iexplore, wmp (uninstallable)
KEEP:
Vast hardware support, Maximum hardware utilization, Terminal Services, Windows sharing compatible with samba.
ADD:
Ideas from the Macs: expose, one of the reasons I mainly use Mac OS X (plus speed and responsiveness of course), and sth like preview.
Extend multi-core support and cuda-like technologies on OS level.
Security and need for third party antivirus/antispyware software that raises total cost of use for high-security systems.
I have the Win7 x64 beta installed. Even if it is much faster and responsive than Vista, what isn't? I think it can still be faster and smaller. 14GB for a "bare" OS? really?
Even if I installed gnome and kde and all the productivity, multimedia, development apps and all the king's men on my Fedora laptop, I still won't break 10GB.