What do you want in the RTM?

[Cam]

MS will most likely pump out some last-minute tweaks and features in the RTM of W7. What do you think they could be?


1. Centering of the Taskbar icons, similar to Mac OS X's dock.
2. The ability to remove the blur effect from Aero windows, and make them truly transparent.
3. "Gaming Mode", which kills every unnecessary process when a game is launched.

 

[Day24]

Uhm... I am not completely sure that you get this whole process of alpha builds, then a beta, then a release candidate and then going RTM.... Microsoft does all of that to test every single feature to high heaven with as many users as possible. So I highly doubt there are going to be ANY new features in the RTM version. (haven't MS stated this when they said before that a beta build was feature complete?)

The only thing there might be a very slight chance of is a UI tweak or something like that. But certainly no new features.

Having said that, I would hate to have the icons in the centre of the taskbar.... that would confuse most people and it would (in my opinion) take away the previous and still main function of the taskbar: seeing which programs you have active and enabling you to switch between them quickly.

as for you gaming mode idea.... if you have many unnecessary processes running, then you're doing something wrong.... Your goal should be to have only the necessary processes running to begin with.

 

[Lordbob75]

MS will most likely pump out some last-minute tweaks and features in the RTM of W7. What do you think they could be?


1. Centering of the Taskbar icons, similar to Mac OS X's dock.
2. The ability to remove the blur effect from Aero windows, and make them truly transparent.
3. "Gaming Mode", which kills every unnecessary process when a game is launched.

You can set these (except two) now.
For one, just unlock the task bar and move the icons to the middle.
For three, just open Task Manager and shut down stuff.

~Lordbob

 

[copernicus]

I hope they remove the new taskbar entirely.

 

[Lordbob75]

I hope they remove the new taskbar entirely.

You can do this too. Just set it to Auto-Hide.

~Lordbob

 

[zigzag3143]

taskbar

I hope they remove the new taskbar entirely.

Isnt there also either a tutorial or post abt reverting back to the vista taskbar? Is that what you wanted to do?

Ken

 

[Iknewitwin7]

You can set these (except two) now.
For one, just unlock the task bar and move the icons to the middle.
For three, just open Task Manager and shut down stuff.

~Lordbob

How are you moving the icons to the middle? I don't understand

 

[copernicus]

I want my taskbar like they had it in '95.

 

[masterB]

For one, just unlock the task bar and move the icons to the middle.
~Lordbob

Can not move the icons to the middle. They go back to the left.

 

[Mark]

You can just add a blank toolbar to the left and that will allow you to position the icons to the center.

 

[maccik]

Or use RocketDock softwer ...

 

[mxosder16]

How are you moving the icons to the middle? I don't understand

Check this out

 

[Orbital Shark]

all i would like is for my extended desktop to work independenty. Meaning, seperate taskbar, full maximise of MC (without knocking out screen 1) and a few minor additions.....

 

[DJG]

I'd like a hotkey for toggling between showing & hiding the toolbar in a sticky way.

Since I got True Launch Bar, together with the Win 7 taskbar all my taskbar wishes have been more than fulfilled - check out the cpu and disk monitors ...

 

[Iknewitwin7]

Check this out

LOL, it works, but like someone else said "kinda ghetto"

 

[holo88]

I want Texas hold'em back. i dont see why they included all those crappy "Purple Palace" games, but not Poker....

that and XP style disk-defrag. I liked seeing what was fragmented, without a 3rd party app. Do they think that it isnt important or something? the little blue/red bar was easily understandable.... why'd they scrap it in the first place?

and finally... a built in espresso maker (umm espresso) USB maybe? with some neato program that tells you how ridiculously hot the coffee is.

 

[Iknewitwin7]

I wanted dreamscene back, and mutilple desktops.

 

[holo88]

I wanted dreamscene back, and mutilple desktops.

dreamscene is entirey possible. there are programs the enable it. poke around in the tutorial section (i'm not sure which thread, try a search..) i've used it, it's cool, i guess.