- Bring back the big buttons + labels from Windows XP on top of each window, with back/forward buttons, up button; they were also customizable, I always added cut/copy/paste for easy file moving.

- In music/or video folders, bring back the PLAY ALL or PLAY SELECTED FILE option. How am I supposed to Play All in Vista??

- Real, honest progress bar! Not just bars running again and again, and you have no clue how long the task will take you! STUPID!

- Bring back the so beloved power toys from XP. Tweak UI wa SO USEFUL! And the image resizer tool too.

- Windows photo viewer/gallery be able to play *.gif files, like in XP. I do acknowledge and give credit for enable to play standard video files in the viewer, but GIF files must be opened in Internet Explorer. That’s a big mistake.

Microsoft, do you listen?

I use XP and Vista.
Also desired….
1. Have a Windows Explorer that can show two panes at a time instead of having to create two separate views.
2. Stop the extremely annoying “permissions”. I shut mine off and still get annoyed trying to handle files.
3. Bring back the screen saver slideshow that enabled us to show our own photos.
4. Instead of another OS, why not just put the changes in a much needed service pack? Oh yeah, you don’t make millions that way.

There are so many things that have bugged me about Vista that I can’t think of just now. I am giving it one last chance before going back to XP on everything. I have no intention of trying Windows 7 for a long, long time. (lack of faith)

Not least the built-in, intentional security flaws. Read Bruce Schneier on this subject. It’s not a favoritism issue. I’d far prefer to run something widely compatible if I could (Windows) but I’ve been driven to Linux by Vista’s execrable security, terrible bootloader, constant inexplicable drive access.

Oh, and the intolerable, unforgivable slowness on a quadcore with 4 gigs ram.

1. add a Synaptic feature like Ubuntu.
2. make it open source.
3. make it free like Linux.

I might consider windows again if these things were added as well.

1 – Not sure what you’re asking here.
2 – Not really a feature request, just something you want carrying over…
3 – Probably not going to happen. Windows is a GIGANTIC program as far as things go, and its very hard to optimize something that well when it needs to support so much hardware.
4 – Sorry, but this is pretty much impossible. As demonstrated by the change in behaviour from xp to vista, different amounts of memory are cached most efficiently in different ways. if you have almost none, you want it cached as much free as possible. If you have a moderate to large amount, you want to be taking advantage of that wasted space.

If you were to flip the behaviours arround, then small amounts of memory would have sky high CPU usage due to CONSTANT reallocation, and large amounts of memory would be used badly, so applications might open slower than their optimum, because they weren’t precached.

1. Readyboost is ability incorporated in windows vista of using USB flash drive as additional ram on your machine. I would like that most of all.
2. To see the used and free space on the drives in control panel like in windows vista.
3. Try to minimize (short) the boot time of windows, i hate the boot speediness (slowness) of xp and vista.
4. Perfect the cashing of the system memory.

few more that i can’t remember them now )

The three versions should actually be

Stripped (for those people/countries that need it)
Enterprise/Pro
Server

There are 8 (technically 12) SKUs for Server 2008! Ridiculous! Yeah, 3 of them are special cases (Web server, Itanium and High Performance). And they haven’t announced SBS 2008 yet. You know that’s coming sometime soon.