what would you like to see in the next windows
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Proper multi monitor support from the ground up.
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Here here! It's crazy that we still have the same level of dual+ support that we did 10 years ago!
Im not very good at the predicting features of stuff though.
One browser feature Id like to see is the ability to drag a browser tab from one instance to another.
Cannot think of anything apart from tweaks to an already great OS.
The ability to do more with the windows themselves. As said, proper multi monitor support. The ability to tell an application to always open on monitor 2, and to run at the size x,y at position x,y. Means you can potentially have 4 apps automagically opening at once in 4 parts of screen 2.
A return of letting me install the driver I tell it to, as I KNOW that the hardware I am installing requires THAT driver. Windows is making it too easy at the expense of advanced users.
The ability to do more with the windows themselves. As said, proper multi monitor support. The ability to tell an application to always open on monitor 2, and to run at the size x,y at position x,y. Means you can potentially have 4 apps automagically opening at once in 4 parts of screen 2.
A return of letting me install the driver I tell it to, as I KNOW that the hardware I am installing requires THAT driver. Windows is making it too easy at the expense of advanced users.
Better multiple monitor support.
Give the option of a taskbar on additional monitor(s), and how it functions. Either as a plain extension when you run out of room on one, displaying duplicates of all tasks, or only displaying the tasks for that specific monitor, and allowing you to specify what opens where.
Although not related, one thing I want to see is the ability to load multiple Excel documents in multiple windows so that they can be easily moved to multiple monitors! It's crazy that it's still not the default way of doing it!
Give the option of a taskbar on additional monitor(s), and how it functions. Either as a plain extension when you run out of room on one, displaying duplicates of all tasks, or only displaying the tasks for that specific monitor, and allowing you to specify what opens where.
Although not related, one thing I want to see is the ability to load multiple Excel documents in multiple windows so that they can be easily moved to multiple monitors! It's crazy that it's still not the default way of doing it!
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Chrome has this and I think IE9 might too.
Are we talking web browser? If so, Firefox can do this. The IE9 BETA can do this and I can only assume the others do too...
It would be great to control where stuff opens up specifically. I think in 7 it does remember the last screen you used an app, but obviously you cannot make it remember precise position.
Simplifying installation of applications would be nice. Much like the way OS X does it - all the files are kept in one self-contained parcel. For large/complex software, installation is understandable. But for small things, sometimes I wish I can just use it instead of having to click next, next, next, finish. Oftentimes installers are only setting up shortcuts.
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Only seems to work on MS apps though. A lot fo my software does not. It irritates me. My stock control software only opens on the main monitor, I only ever have it on the 2nd.
Oh god yes! I HATE this. Typing in your password . . . . No you have just typed it into another program . . . . Rendering it on the screen and visible to all/
It does, Hybrid sleep works excellent for me!
Alas, this is unlikely from a cold boot. However it is achievable if you simply put your PC to sleep, rather than shutdown!
Because it is not horrific? Granted it is not the best - I think Spotlight on OS X is generally better - but I have had very, very few problems with search on Windows 7. A big part of it is to adjust the indexing, which almost no one ever does.
