05-06-2003 20:40									#3
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Be insanely rich most likely.

	05-06-2003 20:41									#4
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Dance in glee and have my enemies killed...

Wait, doesn;t the current hed of MS do that anyway?

	05-06-2003 20:46									#5
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Hire you as head of my PR department.

	05-06-2003 20:58									#6
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I'd

Scrap 95 % of what has been done and hire the guys that created the Macintosh OS of about 15 years ago.


Rant mode on/ It still baffles me , the success of the IBM style over Macintosh. IN 1990 I used both styles and the MNacintosh of that day had a windows -style operating system that rarely seemed to crash and was every bit as easy to use as the Windows systems of today

Rant mode off/

	05-06-2003 20:59									#7
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Remove Windows Product Activation from WinXP and all future versions of Windows. It's an annoyance to legitimate customers and no deterrence at all to the major pirating rings. I also don't believe that Microsoft's stance of 'one computer, one OS license' is legally defensible when applied to a private, non-commerical environment.

Uncouple Internet Explorer from the core of the Windows OS. There's no reason for the security-hole-ridden IE's code to be comingled with the OS code and thus increase the potential security risks. It was only done for somewhat dubious reasons in the first place.

	05-06-2003 20:59									#8
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quote: Originally posted by Richelieu Hire you as head of my PR department.

Thats actually the one thing that Windows does supremely well. We have all come to accept that crashing is normal and that of course our old programs can't run on our new machine

	05-06-2003 21:01									#9
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quote: Originally posted by Asher Differenciate between minimized and restored/maximized windows on the taskbar Provide an easy "Alphabetize Start Menu" feature, rather than having it hidden in TweakXP

Can you clarify what you mean here? The way I'm reading those sentences they both already exist.

	05-06-2003 21:36									#10
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quote: Originally posted by FrustratedPoet Can you clarify what you mean here? The way I'm reading those sentences they both already exist.

On the Taskbar, minimized windows appear the same as inactive windows that may be maximized/restored. I'd prefer if there were 3 states shown on the taskbar: Active (already has it), inactive (already has it), and a minimized state (perhaps grey it out a bit more?).

As for the alphabetize feature, I could've sworn it used to be there, but on my XP Pro installation I couldn't find it in the minute I checked, but TweakUI has an alphabetize/sort feature I used.

I'll add another two to the list:

	05-06-2003 22:12									#11
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I'd hire Asher and take the credit for all of his work

	05-06-2003 22:18									#12
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Make it UNIX based, and put Linux out of buisness

	05-06-2003 22:22									#13
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UNIX's architecture is very dated, NT's is far more modern.

UNIX has been around for far longer, though, so they tend to be very stable. But that's about all it has going for it.

	05-06-2003 22:45									#14
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*supprot for dual/triple displays automatically (to come in built) -with less hassle
*get rid of that 60 hz barrier by defauly and make it 85 hz...
*cut the price in half so that OEM and retail difference is not more than 50% ...
*support for 2 cpu cores automatically too (well it is with some and not the "home " versions)
*have better "repair" options, so better self-diagnostics, so you can actually salvage the setup with the CD if something goes broke...
*when you have a crash - to point out what device/driver the crash was related too
* sort out netmeeting - when it's ****ed in an installation for whatever reason that it can be reinstalled - unlike now
* having 1-2 % of CPU time allocated to killing processes and calling task manager at any time
*have minimize/maximize window, show desktop option when you right click by default

...

	05-06-2003 22:46									#15
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Make Windows XP run perfectly smoothly on a P266 with 192Mb of RAM.

	05-06-2003 22:49									#16
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quote: Originally posted by Paul Hanson Make Windows XP run perfectly smoothly on a P266 with 192Mb of RAM.

Cheap bastard.

	05-06-2003 22:53									#17
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Pray for forgiveness.

	05-06-2003 22:55									#18
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We're not all loaded you know.

	05-06-2003 22:56									#19
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quote: Originally posted by Paul Hanson We're not all loaded you know.

You don't need to be loaded to get a computer orders of magnitude better than what you have now.

	05-06-2003 23:49									#20
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I have actually been trying to get hold of a cheap P400, but the friend of a friend that was supposed to be doing it seems to be stalling, for whatever reason.

I'm a student you see, so cash is quite tight.

	06-06-2003 00:15									#21
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not even 100£?

with this you can get yourself a new nforce 2 mobo with integrated gfx and sound... and a 1700+ processor... all the rest - your auld HDD , CD, FDD, moniotor - oh... 130 £ - £30- 256 MB of 266DDR too... well?

Apart from that, you could go real cheapo... and go for ASUS NForce mini ATX for 40£ and the rest and you get a gf2MX level graphics integrated new proc, sound , and 256 MB mem ... which is all of the above for 100£

that is probable 4x the processing power of your present PC... good for all the games up to 2003 ones...

	06-06-2003 00:53									#22
	Re: Re: Re: If I was in charge of Windows, I'd... Got spare money?

quote: Originally posted by Asher On the Taskbar, minimized windows appear the same as inactive windows that may be maximized/restored. I'd prefer if there were 3 states shown on the taskbar: Active (already has it), inactive (already has it), and a minimized state (perhaps grey it out a bit more?).

OK, I get that now. Thanks.

quote: As for the alphabetize feature, I could've sworn it used to be there, but on my XP Pro installation I couldn't find it in the minute I checked, but TweakUI has an alphabetize/sort feature I used.

Start > Programs > (right-click) > Sort by Name arranges all the folders alphabetically. At least it does on my comp (XP Home). Is that what you meant?

	06-06-2003 03:42									#23
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Well done FP!

	06-06-2003 04:06									#24
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make all MS products open source

	06-06-2003 04:23									#25
	Re: Re: Re: Re: If I was in charge of Windows, I'd... Support Apolyton, buy Civilization III: Complete

quote: Originally posted by FrustratedPoet Start > Programs > (right-click) > Sort by Name arranges all the folders alphabetically. At least it does on my comp (XP Home). Is that what you meant?

Ah, sweet, that's where it is! Thanks.

	06-06-2003 04:45									#26
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quote: Start > Programs > (right-click) > Sort by Name arranges all the folders alphabetically. At least it does on my comp (XP Home). Is that what you meant?

Wow! Works in Win2K too!

	06-06-2003 04:50									#27
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quote: Originally posted by Zopperoni Make it rely less on the page file, since modern PCs have more RAM

If you have enough RAM, you can simply disable the page file entirely. I have 1 or 2 GB comps running XP with the page file disabled, and performance is quite nice.

	06-06-2003 04:57									#28
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Yes, I tried that before, and for some strange reason it wouldn't connect to the Internet anymore o_O

	06-06-2003 04:58									#29
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My list is more developer oriented:

UI:

Allow design time specification of automatically resizeable UI elements depending on screen resolution. i.e. a specified font for a button, or the button itself, could be easily defined in percentages of screen resolution, OR as a fixed element.

Right now, you have two choices - fixed UI elements so that different resolutions look weird (tiny buttons or huge ones, etc.) or UI elements created dynamically at runtime, which is slow as hell and a pain to debug.



Kernel:

Automatic tracking of parent and child processes, and cleanup of orphaned child processes automatically on shutdown of the application.

Allow application level control of pagefile behavior.

	06-06-2003 04:59									#30
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They recommend at least 512MB for it to work, 1GB is the only time I'd do it, though. Otherwise things can and do **** up.