what do you wish for as new features in Service Pack 3 for Windows XP ?
Post your wishes, suggestions .......anything you would like to be included in this upcoming Service Pack to improve the functionality provided by the recent Service Pack 2 release
posted by Unknown at 7:11 PM
68 Comments:
They need to increase the bandwith window!! My internet cannot function at it's full potential. They also need better spyware cleaners or what not.....something like a in-built scanner. So we dont have to download so much 3rd Party software just to keep our computers up to par. And they were too late with the pop-up blocker...everyone else had it already. (Google, AIM, MSN...etc...)
~Ben
1. Sort Program menu alphabetically
2. Reserve a drive letter for External USB drive
3. Sort options for Favorites menu in IE
1) Be able to see date and day on one line, not have to expand taskbar to see.
2) A offical way (like in add/remove programs) to remove IE, MSN Explorer, Outlook, etc..
3) 64 bit support
Il faut que Microsoft rend Java par Sun Microsystems plus mieux dans Windows XP, car les logiciels et sites d'Internet rendent meilleur dans Linux.
for them to screw sp3 and work on longhorn beta 1
For it to actually work. The other wish...for you to quit your fucking OT crap requests from the NG.
1) For all programs to work-not having to wait a couple of months for the programmers to release something that is actually compatible
2) A new style instead of the craptastic Luna!
3) Fix huge load time.
Email spammer .. MakeLoveNotWar.. Type Program
MS Anti-Virus
To have an option to disable Zip/Cab Folder scanning whilst searching.
This is slowing Search to the point of unusability.
I'm getting annoyed of having to "regsvr32 /u zipfldr.dll" before searching and remembering to "regsvr32 zipfldr.dll" afterward.
Oh well, there's always Agent Ransack or Linux!
Super lock down mode. Everything must be given permission by admin. Yes everything. lol
Never have to worry about spyware again. :)
They should integrate more visual styles, without the requirement to install third part applications.
The option to uninstall Internet Explorer, just like MSN Explorer. Thanks
what the fudge,
90% of all the things I read here are already possible in XP gold, XP SP1 and/or XP SP2! nerds! Oh No0s, no nerds, idoots! Nerds know these kinda things :)
-nerd.
More PCMCIA card drivers for bluetooth and wireless cards (I know i have some built in to my laptop but I have higher power ones in cardbus format).
USB has lots of driver support on the OS install but PCMCIA has not much.
More options for gpedit.msc and not having to resort to registry editing for more customisation.
Ability to log in as Administrator and not some other account name forced upon us, My first step on installing an XP DESKTOP SINGLE USER Box is to remove the created forced user and use Administrator. My desk isnt a damn Datacenter or LAN server its a DESKTOP, maybe you forgot that.
Ability to mount drive images like Nero ImageDrive (virtual CD Drives) and the ability to write images as if they where being burnt to CD but except to .ISO or NRG file etc
How about a UI for tracert so we can map them like visual route?
Keep Raw sockets where they are, only limit theyre use in the ICS/Firewall service, so we can still use them. Dont remove theyre support in the stack.
Virtual desktops deskband and not with some numbers just, i want to be able to drag windows on the vdesktop mini pictures, like Stardocks control center. Not the lame powertoys version that looks like a faggots handbag.
Uninstall option for IE, 64 bit support, a more secure email app, more visual styles, better secuirty to stop spyware/adware.
1. Built in Antivirus as part of Security Center.
2. More visual themes.
3. Built in MSN Messenger instead of Windows Messenger.
4. Support for real audio *.ram and *.ra files as part of WMPlayer.
5. Built in IE download accelerator similar to what downloadaccelerator is doing.
6. Built in FTP client browser as a separate application.
7. Support for *.rar and other archive files.
8. Built in CD/DVD burner application
9. 64/32 bit support - at the same time!!!
1) Abbility to CHOSE what components to be instaled (for example to skip the firewall and/or the security center if you dont need them)
2) Abbility to complitly uninstall sotware like Outlook, MS Mesenger, IE, ...
3) Option to diasblr/remove DEP (or atleast option to ask evry time when it decides to recover a file)
4) Better description of the MS services (funktion, needed for, ...)
5) Option for limiting the oppened connectionsd NOT forced seting ...
Upgrade the "Add Fonts" Browser to the modern interface instead of the 3.11 looking file manager
better spyware protection! and Virus fighting.
Build-in daemon tools, torrent client, IRC releases search engine, auto-crack/keygen-search if not cracked, .nfo reader, .sfv support, Firefox instead of IE.
1) Better compatability for older games.
2) An option to turn off the connection limit placed on the Tcp/Ip that was introduced in SP2.
In the file open dialogs---being able too use the BACK mouse button within File Open Dialogs and not be limited too the Back button at the top.
Windows Explorer toolbar add-in that will toggle both 'Show hidden files and folder' and 'un-hide protect operating system files' -- makes it easier to navigate as an admin and then return to 'normal' user view
Taskbar->Hide inactive icons->Cumstomize->Customize Notifications: These icons can be removed, if some programs already been uninstall...
A bandwidth priority program is needed. With more and more programs requiring bandwidth we need a system in place to prioritise it.
Well the gameport needs work..some of us have gameport racing wheels that dont work well on XP..and make it less of a resourse hog
i would like to see more 3d acceleration in the UI. so that also a system with a relatively low processor can run very fast
Implementation of RFC 3397
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1. Network awareness. You can have different profiles depending on what net you are on. Here you can configure proxy settings, dial up, firewall, etc. Should be dynamical when dhcp is used. Was supposed to come in SP1 i think.
2. Option to choose what programs are installed on installation.
3. Something like the Post-Setup Security Updates that was introduced in Windows Server 2003 SP1 where the firewall blocks all traffic until you've updated your computer.
4. A better search utility that actually works so that we don't have to use commandline utilities.
Oh yes. The Fonts UI needs an overhaul quick.
Visual Styles - why the hell do I need to hack n' crack my way to use zillions of styles available, while XP could do it all by itself? Allow user-created styles into desktop properties, period.
Network awareness and automatic detection - I second that.
Do something with the network shares autopublishing (AKA "My network places") - I got 40 PC's in my company, yet some of the shares are not gettin' published. And yes, they're all the very same configuration.
As a PC Technician with 12 years of experience, here's my "Things that WinXP lacks":
1. good clock functionality, such as AlfaClock provides. The user can decide how date & time will be displayed + alrams can be set +
talking clock + Atomic clock update (ok, the last one is already implemented).
2. A built-in AntiVirus. Any new installation of WinXP is as good as garbage without immediatally installing an Anti-Virus. PC's get infected whithin minutes when goin online without one.
3. I don't know about you guys, but I've noticed that WinXP w/ SP2 seems a bit slower. Improve your code, Microsoft!!! make the OS as fast as possible! even if it means programming in Assembly. We DON'T need to buy a $3000 PC just to enjoy a smooth & fast experience with a PC.
4. Allowing the USER to choose which components he wishes to have installed. IE & Messenger are nice, but there are some other companies out there in the market, and you know what? They have better solutions than these!!
5. I don't like it when things are hidden from me, especially those important file-type extensions (yes, I know I can enable them, but would I wanna hide'em in the 1st place?).
6. The WinXP Search: Too slow! I'm still waiting for that rumored MSN Desktop search that should rival google's quickness.
7. When a remote user connects to a WinXP machine, the user sitting in front of it is logged-out and can't see what's goin on. If he tries to log in, it logs out the remote user (because he doesn't understand/know that a remote user is currently logged-on). The local user should be able to "watch" the remote user "at work".
8. The Task Manager. Shame on you Microsoft!!! Why do u make me use a 3rd party application such as Process Explorer (although its available for free)?? The least you could do is show the paths of the processes listed in Task Manager, which is a fundamental thing!! How the hell am I supposed to know where a suspicious .exe file is executing from? Oh, run a windows search, you say??
Don't make me come all the way to Redmond and slap you silly!! And the performance graph - it's moving too slow, even at the highest setting.
9. Bandwith Priority - There's the abilty to set task cpu priority, why not for bandwith also?
10. When I'll think of all the other things (can't remember all of them right now), I'll make a new post....
As a PC Technician with 12 years of experience, here's my "Things that WinXP lacks":
1. good clock functionality, such as AlfaClock provides. The user can decide how date & time will be displayed + alrams can be set +
talking clock + Atomic clock update (ok, the last one is already implemented).
2. A built-in AntiVirus. Any new installation of WinXP is as good as garbage without immediatally installing an Anti-Virus. PC's get infected whithin minutes when goin online without one.
3. I don't know about you guys, but I've noticed that WinXP w/ SP2 seems a bit slower. Improve your code, Microsoft!!! make the OS as fast as possible! even if it means programming in Assembly. We DON'T need to buy a $3000 PC just to enjoy a smooth & fast experience with a PC.
4. Allowing the USER to choose which components he wishes to have installed. IE & Messenger are nice, but there are some other companies out there in the market, and you know what? They have better solutions than these!!
5. I don't like it when things are hidden from me, especially those important file-type extensions (yes, I know I can enable them, but would I wanna hide'em in the 1st place?).
6. The WinXP Search: Too slow! I'm still waiting for that rumored MSN Desktop search that should rival google's quickness.
7. When a remote user connects to a WinXP machine, the user sitting in front of it is logged-out and can't see what's goin on. If he tries to log in, it logs out the remote user (because he doesn't understand/know that a remote user is currently logged-on). The local user should be able to "watch" the remote user "at work".
8. The Task Manager. Shame on you Microsoft!!! Why do u make me use a 3rd party application such as Process Explorer (although its available for free)?? The least you could do is show the paths of the processes listed in Task Manager, which is a fundamental thing!! How the hell am I supposed to know where a suspicious .exe file is executing from? Oh, run a windows search, you say??
Don't make me come all the way to Redmond and slap you silly!! And the performance graph - it's moving too slow, even at the highest setting.
9. Bandwith Priority - There's the abilty to set task cpu priority, why not for bandwith also?
10. When I'll think of all the other things (can't remember all of them right now), I'll make a new post....
1. a new media player with all kind of codecs
2. able to play .mov .rm
3. better explorer (easier like total commander)
4. an ultra fast picture viewer
5. faster login and shutdown
6. more visualisation solutions (a fully variable start menu - i can change everything)
that's all!
wow... there are a lot of people here who have no idea what they're talking about....
1. A New *SECURE* browser, with tabbed browsing, themes, and built-in Download manager.
2. Now Themes for Windows.
3. Built-in Anti-Virus and Ad remover
4. MSN Messenger instead of Windows Messenger.
1. Credential Management solution. If you log onto a secure wireless network with PEAP/802.1x, your credentials are encrypted and stored in the registry. To remove your username and password, you must modify the registry. In DUN, you can always specify your username/pass as soon as the connection window comes up. Centralize the credentials, and provide a management interface. (No, "Stored User names and Passwords" is not the same.)
2. Design system so users are USERS and don't have to run as Administrators to get anything done. Instead of informing user they have no Administrative privelages to install something, provide them with a username/password dialog in order to enter administrative credentials.
3. The firewall interface is a nightmare. SP2 didn't help at all. Oh, great, now I have a 'pretty' interface to turn on my firewall. Yay! How about a log viewer? A more intelligent interface would be nice? WHY IS THE SERVER FIREWALL NEARLY IDENTICAL TO THE DESKTOP FIREWALL?????
1. Native full support of 1394B, & SATA 300.
2. Better USB 2.0 support, there are still issues with the native support built-in to XP.
4. Make XP more secure
Some suggestions:
1. Don´t make 2 versions again... ship SP3 as one version and set all home-versions to pro.
2. Process-viewer... like mentioned above allready.
3. The search... why don´t you take the engine of the "lookout"-software...that one runs great in outlook.
4. Overview of all files available and installed on XP, what they do, what they don´t. To prevent people from kicking their jdbmgr.exe (the bear) and to let us know, what the f*** is infected by that spyware.
5. Oh yeah... make it impossible for anything to come into my system and sit down and be executed on start without my explicit permission!
6. Stop these "default shared devices" bullshit. It sucks.
7. Make some new sidewinder-software for XP... ! (ups... OT)
Guess, that´s it for now.
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Native DVD Decoders.
Tabbed Web-Browsing.
Native Virus Scanner.
You REALLY have to update the grphics, I'm ashamned of Windows XP when I compare it with the Mac OS X machines.
Slow crappy graphics, windows that get gray until the OS decides to update them, ugly bitmap icons all over the system.
Bascially Avalon, and we want it today ! Also, you REALLY need to update IE, with updated standards compliant CSS, XML, XSL, XPATH...etc..etc support.
Couldnt care less about tabbed browsing though, never understood the need for it.
Update the services and get rid of all the services that are not needed that run in the back ground and hog resources.
Make it so if you run a game you can set the os to run in game mode and dump all the un nesesary resident crap and turn back on when finished.
And I agree with most people here, more pretection and security from spyware installations that corrupt the registery with out your knowledge forceing to reformat the hard drive. And I wish you would make a junk cookie blocker that gets rid of the cookie crap and keeps only the good cookies.
Thanks :)
How come when I set Mozilla Firefox as my DEFAULT browser, when I open a web function on MSN Messenger, it launches Internet explorer?
This is the ONLY application that DOES NOT adhere to the DEFAULT browser settings so far as I have seen.
I also want the ability for an ADVANCED install option and not having to install EVERYDAMNTHING then REMOVE IT after i install it. Like Server produicts, I want to specify what I want and dont want in the first place, not play HUNT THE TURD after an install.
A download accelerator module in IE, like FlashGet...
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More/Better file format support for the Image Viewer. Or Photoshop file formay Plugin support for Image Viewer.
...continued from my previous post (PC Technician):
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9. Built-in RAR support (like for ZIP files). RAR files are very common these days and they deserve as much respect as ZIP files. In my opinion, it should become the de-facto file format for archiving.
10. Built-in Download Manager (Like Getright, MassDownloader, etc.)
11. The Services: Oh my, the description of the services is so cryptic, only god knows what each of 'em means....needs to be more user-friendly so the average person could understand them and decide whether to disable them or not.
12. Native support for FireWire800 (IEEE1394b) & SATA300, cause we want the computer to wait for us, NOT the other way around!!
13. like in #12, but this time for wireless: Microsoft, throw in some support for Wireless-USB & 8.02.11n. BlueTooth is TOO SLOW and unreliable, and 802.11a/b/g are being surpassed by 802.11n.
13. Programs that load when Windows starts: there are 3 locations (if I'm not mistaken) to set programs to load on boot-time. NO GOOD! I want 1 central location to look at and decide which programs will start with Windows and at what order.
14. When I try to delete or move a file, and that file is already open in a program that's running, Windows will block your opretion and give you a message like "The operation cannot be performed, this file is being used by another program...". It would be nice to know WHICH program is it that's blocking me!!!!
.more to come....
More of an outlook express update... the ability to manage which attachment types are blocked, eg. *.exe, *.pif, etc and which are trusted.
the service pack should include much robust support for Bluetooth, inbuilt support for audio formats like mp4, aac etc
It's very easy to install SpyWare on a PC with IE.
Therefore...
- Internet Explorer to be safe for browsing the web (maybe it should "Run As.." a *non*-administrator / low-level account by default?). Microsoft should give us an elegant way to prevent unintended installs of malicious spyware via IE.
Complete coverage of Add/Remove Windows Component.
Detach all non-system applications from Windows.
Period.
A service which can send DirectSound stream in 5.1 Dolby Digital format trought s/pdif.
You are all idiots and have NO idea what your talking about.
1-
Choose the permision of accessing folders (read- read & modifu)for each user.
2-
Make accounts for each computer in the network (workstaion) with it`s shares.
3-
More powerfull firewall.
4-
More stability.
Eric the PC Technician (continued):
16. Every standard Windows application has "close", "maximize" & "minimize" buttons on the top-right side of the window (of course, application programmers can change that to suit their needs, but that's what they get as default when they create a window). This is simply not enough. To my humble opinion, a standard window should have 2 more buttons: "minimize to tray" & "stay on top". I know there are some applications out there that do have these buttons, but shouldn't that become a standard for all?
17. Date Fields - Anyone who ever dealt with backing up data periodically must have noticed how difficult it is to know which files should be backed-up and which shouldn't (because they haven't changed) - Right there exactly lays the problem!!
You see, Windows Explorer (or the NTFS file system, I'm not exactly sure) is limited to displaying only "Date Created", "Date Modified" & "Date Accessed" Columns. I claim that this is not enough! I claim that there should be 2 more date fields for all files: "Date first ever created" & "Date last renamed". "Date Created" should be from now on "Date created on this machine". This could solve so many discrepancies and so many back-up conflicts, I can't imagine how we ever got along without those.
18. Boot Time - Any OS would please its user if it can boot 100% in 10 seconds or less on today's standard hardware…. So should WinXP/Windows Longhorn. When I say 100% I mean - Ready to use, everything's already loaded after the desktop is displayed, including the user's chosen startup applications (when the desktop is displayed, the system isn't 100% ready, there are still many things that load after the desktop shell, which varies depending on the user's startup applications).
One of the most important things is the support of Xlink and other standarts from W3C. I hate it to tell the IE users that they cannot watch the sites I have created.
Some security alerts should really be removed, too.
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i think one bad thing about the windows latest releases is the memory hunger (ram) , its eating memory like nothing else thhats why i think they should do some thing about the need for so much memory to only boot up windows
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My wishes:
1. Integrate all critical and security patches
2. New improved windows theme and wallpaper
3. New set of pointers (cursors)
4. Shorter boot-up time
5. Better per-user settings
6. Drivers for new devices
7. More options when installing
8. Integrate Windows Media Player 11., Internet Explorer 7 and Windows Live Messenger 8.5
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