Windows Windows 7 : Your hopes and dreams?

I'd like all temp data to be stored in 1 location to start, so machine doesn't full up with krud. Same thing for the registry. ie have windows registry with just windows components and then a separate reg file for each app/game thats installed....so like when you have to reinstlal windows don't have to reinstall all your apps and games etc etc etc etc etc just need to put the reg files back to a certain location

 

Changing the registry will lead to having no software to work... A bit like Windows NT was over Windows 9x, in fact Windows 2000 was still not enough it took until XP to see a proper percentage of software to work. Microsoft is not going to do the same thing.

You can change the path of the Temp dir with the Environmental Variables. That is what I do, since ever.

I want all this list to be fixed (~1000 items)
http://www.aerotaskforce.com/sort/popular/t/all
Please note, that if you look at this and you think Vista is terrible, it's not, XP was just as bad, even worst.

 

point is, we shouldn't have to do these things! screw old software, ms is stuck in the past with huge code base. Vista is just Server 2003 with a fresh face, cause they had to give up on Vista's core as it didn't work. They need new fresh and clean! read the question, f'ing fanboy

 

I read your question. You ask what is my hope and dreams about Windows 7. I say that all the forgotten details to be worked out , so that we have the best Windows. If that is not the question, then edit your question to make is clear.

If you look at the link above, you will see I posted A LOT on Vista... if I was a fan boy as you claim, trust me I would go "IT RULES IT'S PERFECT....", and then "bow in front your new god", But I don't. I complain. In fact I complained about 40 bugs/issues/annoyances. If you based on my comments on this forum, I simple say the truth.
Here: http://www.aerotaskforce.com/user/126/sort/popular

By the way, Vista is not Server 2003. I don't know where you get your facts, but they are false. Proof: Why do you think you have bugs that were not there in XP and Server 2003?! ~80% of the overall all OS was rewritten. In fact every process is multi-core programed (meaning is uses multi-cores at the same time, and not go (like in XP, to core1 or 2 (or others if you have more), but stay on that core. Doing such is not a simple variable or command change. They have to re script pretty much the whole thing. It's very complicated to program in such way. And 60% of the Kernal was re-programed.

My facts comes from trusted sites like this one, and contacts I have with people that worked at the company.

Screw old software?! Ha, so many people just on THIS forum complained and not switch or do dual boot, that their old games, software don't work. Imagine the average user, and companies. Already the company windows 3.1/9x software stop working in Vista, and it prevents them from switching, let alone the other factors.
Why do you think Windows NT failed, same for Windows 2000, and the early stages of WinXP. The main complain was not the bugs and issues, it was "My software/games/hardware don't work under it". And now as computers are way more popular then before, it will hit Microsoft pretty hard, especially that the average users don't care how the OS is done, they just want it to work. Already Vista drop many old hardware technologies support with Vista, and the reason why you have Vista haters out there, because their P4 first Gen, with their S3 Pro graphic card and 256MB of RAM where it can't runs XP smoothly, tries and complain how sucky Vista is and with all it's BSOD's that occurs non-stop. Which leads people to call Vista: WinMe2.

A transition needs to be done, but first Microsoft has to wait for the overall population to get more educated about computers and OS's, else it will be an epic fail.
I know that the registry sucks, or at least the pure minimum is to have it clean (meaning I have Local Machine and User with Microsoft, and the companies of my drivers, and Class root, for the file association which I have on my computer (so after a fresh install, I should have all the standard image formats (to open them), video formats, dll, exe, sys, ocx, and few other, but that is it) and have it all organized. Ok I am SURE at 100% I am forgetting A LOT of stuff, but you get the idea. Also, not sell the 32-bit version of Windows anymore, and set media player 64-bit as default, and actually have a good Windows Media player.

 

I hope the EU develops its own OS, makes all of its 27 govts standardize on it and then get 3rd party developers to write apps for it. Then game companies writing for it. And then some kid in Iowa says, "Hey I want to use EUos!" and installs it on his computer, then the rest of the gaming community...
3 years later Microsoft files for bankruptcy.

That is really the best option i can see for the PC platform, game devs, and software devs.
Microsoft is holding back the pc in general and computing as a whole.

Yours in Death to the Redmond Hegemony Plasma,
Star*Dagger

 

I hope they throw away everything gui-related they've worked on before and start fresh. Too many old styled windows and dialogs that were in windows 95-xp that have no place in the current day.

I hope they re-write the way programs work; I really like the OS X method of having a single 'container' for programs. But they could go even farther, and have all the program settings in one location, human readable.

I hope they add a lot of new features that have been standard in other operating systems for many years; force quit programs, standardized ui elements, etc.

I hope the EU goes bankrupt.

 

Then your wish will have come true, from the beta im using at work, windows 7 has gone more like Vista style, no longer get half a dozen windows open when changing screensaver/power options etc.

 

I'd like it to install, and work, not have to fight it for 40 minutes , then hunt drivers (for those older systems.) then yell at it.
Mainly, i'd like to see it be more like how software was meant to evolve, use less resources, work faster, and better, and definitely more reliable.

 

transparency. all the files in obvious locations, not hidden away in wierd appsettings folders and stuff. no processes crunching away in the background that you have no idea what they're doing. user priveleges that actually make sense, so that i don't have to turn UAC off. basically, i want an operating system that does what i tell it to do, and only what i tell it to do. or in other words, i want my games to run natively on linux.

 

I love Vista, I really do and am still shocked at the short sighted people who still slate it. Vista is greatly misunderstood OS which is a real shame.

For Windows 7 I want to see proper collaboration between Microsoft and 3rd party hardware/software vendors. Most people still think that MS is the reason for all the Vista issues when in fact it's companies like Creative and Nvidia to name a few. Microsoft need to realize the importance of getting these companies on board prior to launch, that way they will achieve much bigger success with their next OS.

 

The way forward is a simple looking OS, which is more like XP than Vista, which is very light, and which is very straight forward. Vista even for me is sometimes complicated, so imagine what newbies are like with the OS.

Basically, simple.

 

Built in mouse gestures.

 

<-- when XP came out everyone said it was bloatware and didn't run well on their P2 400MHz boxes and were sticking with Windows 98. Same has happened with Vista / XP, and same will probably happen from Windows 7 / Vista.

Things I'd like to see...an option somewhere that lets you switch between "Advanced" and "Simple" User interface (maybe at install time hidden under F8 or something) -- allowing you to install it on all your friends/family PCs using the "simple" interface with lots of things locked down and hidden -- no ability to break things! or install it on your home PC with advanced, where everything is set up for proper admin use (so you don't have to do all the little things yourself (eg set view files to all, see classic control panel, disable UAC etc etc)

 

It would be cool, if their was a add game wizard on the Games Explorer window. Like it asks you game name (to show on the folder), where it is located, icon or picture to show, Windows experience scores of the game, and publisher, etc.

 

I dream for the OS to boot before my monitor even turns on.

but I am a dreamer...

 

You're not dreaming.

Always remember the Amiga.

 

its funny how quite a few things you guys want, are allready implemented in linux and as far as what i want out of windows 7, is too never have to use it

 

I wish there was a way to prevent all focus stealing. That's the one thing that needs to change, and is actually the least intrusive in windows. Mac is terrible, and linux is just horrid at preventing that.

 

I don't think UAC is too bad. Just missing the option to add exceptions.

On an another forum they just flame Vista and everyone who says a good thing about Vista. I actually feel bad for them. I need that forum because they have a lot of info I need so I can't leave them. I'm just trying to not to speak about Vista on that forum.

OK that's a bit OT now...

I think they should improve the boot time a bit for Windows 7, because any older computers struggle and it takes years to boot. Even on my system (Q9550/8GB) it takes like a minute.

 

I'd like inbuilt mouse gestures, prevention of focus stealing, and better coherence between the different apps.

A lot of the problems people are saying, are problems with 3rd party software, rather than windows itself. I would like a standardised settings folder so I can just copy that between installs and computers though.

It has been mentioned a few times. Why do people disable UAC? There's no need, once you have everything set up.