Acting on file management feedback

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Alvaro — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:57:46 GMT

@MSFT think @mikeparkie & @Scott were talking about the mouse aerosnap .... almost 400 coments and that's all you have to say???

Anyway it would be nice to see a better multimonitor support in w8, thinsg that right now we only can do with third party solutions like Ultramon and DisplayFusion... (desktop wallpapers, taskbar, ...)

re: Acting on file management feedback

Ilana Smith - MSFT — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:34:20 GMT

Win+Left Arrow (and Right Arrow) will snap a window on a monitor boundary.

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ZeljkoF1 — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:36:19 GMT

I second this future: snap between two monitors - this would be really helpful

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Scott Smith — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:24:45 GMT

@mikeparkie - areo snap – please make it work with multiple monitors, in 7 it only snaps to far left on monitor 1 or far right on monitor 2, not in between (with the mouse at least)

DITTO THAT!

re: Acting on file management feedback

Scott Smith — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:21:25 GMT

I still struggle with the ribbons on Word and Excel. I find myself grumbling when I can't find a function that used to be on a menu.

One of the best things to get added to the Windows UI was the incremental search in the Start menu. Something similar when you can't find a function on a ribbon would eliminate frustration.

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Chrisanthos Nonis — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:20:22 GMT

I would like Windows Explorer in Win 8 to be support multi tab. I think would be nice in many ways this.

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Windows7 — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:29:32 GMT

doping said: "So, a very bold and rather strange decision. Microsoft better spend some money on advertising to educate the people of what's expecting them as well as include extensive video tutorial with Windows 8."

I think 99.9% of current Window users are going to need a week long seminar in Redmond, to figure all this out.

I think Microsoft's mission here was to kill off Windows. Congratulation, mission accomplished.

re: Acting on file management feedback

mikeparkie — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:26:13 GMT

A few random thoughts from @mikeparkie

- Please enable an option to be able to change any system icon.

- Keep the start menu!

- Will Windows 8 remember the size and location of the last window opened, i'm always re-sizing a new explorer window

- Add the ability to pin programs to the favourites nav bar in explorer (yes i know there is a crude workaround=draf exe over the links folder)

- Add tabbed file explorer

- Add web email clients as system defaults so I can right click on files and send (using) hotmail/gmail

- Add a god mode window where I can set all the customization for the system in one window

- Add the option for higher quality images icons on for the start tiles

- Add the option to use pngs etc for icons across explorer

- Add the option to keep the same drive letter for things like mobile phones etc

- Add the option to use a large clock text in the system dray (remove date)

- Add native support for other files types .rar .mkv etc

- Update old old win95/nt icons from other native programs, there ugly and need modernising

- Give an option to remove deleted / removed user names, some of my files have references to previous deleted user accounts

- Update the Windows cleanup tool to more aggressive and new temp locations

- areo snap – please make it work with multiple monitors, in 7 it only snaps to far left on monitor 1 or far right on monitor 2, not in between (with the mouse at least)

- Decrease the window drop shadow, its too heavy and big

- Sort out the text clipping on the live tiles, the words are to long it looks bad as the words aren’t fitting onto the tiles properly

- folder size in explorer

- Add the option to not include sample pictures / media during the install – I only have to delete it

What I have see so far I really like, good work MS :)

re: Acting on file management feedback

Maz — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:05:42 GMT

This is a complete offtopic: could you add a new blog post about benchmarks beetwen old ntfs versions and reFS (and maybe other file systems)? Thanks.

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doping — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:00:58 GMT

@WindowsVista567

Yeah, can't really decide how I feel about this myself.

On one hand I only use Start orb/button to do 2 things:

1. Open Control Panel

2. Shutdown PC.

For everything else I use pinned programs and Win key + type (which is unchanged in Windows 8).

OK, I can pin Control Panel too (but why should I do it? It appears to be seen if it's as easy / doesn't require more clicks to change settings in Metro, as I haven't used WDP).

Shutdown option is hidden deeply in WDP from what I read, I hope they improved that for WCP.

But that's me, I'm a fairly advanced user. What about millions of average users? I can't imagine the blind panic attacks they would have. I don't think they are proficient enough to know Win key, Ctrl+Esc or much less hovering the mouse in a "hot corner". If you think about it, anything you install "lives" in a Start menu - that's how my parents think at least - and optionally you can have desktop shortcuts. If you don't have Start menu, application basically disappears after you install it (since Desktop apps do not pin themselves automatically to the Start screen).

So, a very bold and rather strange decision. Microsoft better spend some money on advertising to educate the people of what's expecting them as well as include extensive video tutorial with Windows 8.