| Subject: 3 Windows Vista Suggestions |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.developer.winfx.announcements |
| Date: 4/19/2006 11:06:01 AM |
| From: =?Utf-8?B?TG9yZWVuIGRlIEtvcnQ=?= [Email Address Protection] |
1. Context sensitive help icon in task bar: With a new operating system, to help with the learning curve, how about an taskbar icon which you can click to get context-sensitive help if you need it? Something which works intuitively like the 'clippy' help system in MS Office, but not as intrusive. So for example, if it is obvious you are trying to get a printer defined, rather than have to step aside what you are doing and going to the help from the start menu, you could click the taskbar and the appropriate help for what you seem to be doing is available. In addition to showing help to what you are actually doing, also links to possible help locations within the MS Knowledge base. 2. Grouped Application profiles: Multiple applications and documents you can open together by opening a named profile. For example, opening a profile named 'xyz' results in: MS word launches and opens xyz.doc, Outlook launches and opens the draft letter to xyz, Adobe Photoshop launches and opens the xyz.psd file for editing'. Invariably, you have multiple documents and programs running, but you need to stop what you are doing and turn off the pc. Rather than having to close all these programs and documents, turn off the pc, then open them up all over and get the documents open again, how about the option to be able to save this layout as a named profile so that when you start your pc next, rather than having to reopen all those programs and documents again, you can launch the profile and all those programs will open again, open the documents you were working on and re-establish where you left off? 3. ‘Open with’ links added to hover information in Windows Explorer If you hover your mouse over a file in Explorer, the box prompts you with file property information. How about also listing the 'open with' options as well rather than having to right click and scroll through the menu as a separate step? Further, if you hover and hold the alt key (for example) the hover help becomes a launch box and you can click to open with that particular program? |
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