usability

Microsoft’s User Research Team is conducting a usability study for those in the Austin area who recently purchased a computer with Windows 7 installed. This is a unique opportunity to provide direct feedback to help us improve our products you use every day! Only you can tell us how we can help...

This has been a pet peeve of mine on Win7 ever since I upgraded months ago. I'm real big on using Windows Explorer to navigate around my drives, looking at files, photos, movies, whatever. There are two things that the folder list, on the left side of the screen, does differently from it's XP...

in the win7 explorer, those fading black and white triangle drive me nuts. You have to hover over them to see which folder has any subfolders. Typical case of let designers do a user-interface-experts job. +/- has been used by milions of people worldwide for decaded and is the interface standard...

Circle Dock: The wheels of the Circle Dock revolution just keep turning unabated!!! Circle Dock What Circle Dock Allows You to Do: -Launch your programs from a circular dock. -Drag and drop your files, folders, and shortcuts onto a circular dock that you can re-size. -Rotate...

Has anyone any experience of using TOR, I2P or Freenet. Are they any good? which one is best? Information please

Cannot "CTRL+V paste" into selected window if nothing is selected in that window. But i have more This is now i thought Windows 7 would be like. Wonder if we could post a request to MS to get it this way or somewhat give us more working space and remove some of the annoying features...

Take it for what it's worth...This is from CNNMoney Website. What code (under advanced settings) are they talking about? Is it "custom install"? That isnt a "code". What is the "code" and where does one type it in? Users of the new operating system say the upgrading process is buggy...

Habitually, I keep six or seven folders on my desktop and, when using XP, they would always remember their individual proportions and what part of the screen they were to open up on - that way I could always have several columns of folders side-by-side, with no overlaps, always with the same...

I just attempted to install win7 x64 on one of my other systems, an AMD Athlon II X2 240 Regor 2.8GHz, with 2 sata hds both at 500g and server 2003 on the primary drive working fine (so far) ... unless I use Paragon to make a partition on the main drive .. then I see performance hits in server...

I have 2 SATA drives with the OS on 1 and data on the other. I have a spare IDE drive that I use for backup. What I would like to know is. Will the IDE drive now cause Windows 7 to run slow after the log-in screen? The reason I ask is that the time from login to usability has increased since...

I love that you can pin your commonly used applications to the task bar and move them around. I was wondering if anyone has found a way to put dividers in to sepparate different kind of apps. Example: iTunes Winamp _________ Firefox Chrome IE _________ Visual Studio Sql Server...

Okay, when I decided I wanted to use Windows 7 the only thing in my way was Windows Media Player 12. I love WMP11, a lot of people hate it, but I love the way you can navigate your music in it. When I tried the beta I tried WMP12 and hated it, I was sure they would have it running nicely later...

Windows 7 does not boot faster Vista is actually quicker By Link Removed - Invalid URL Thursday, 8 October 2009, 10:41 SYSTEMS EXPERTS with stop watches have poured cold water on Microsoft's claims that its Windows 7 operating system boots up faster than Vista. The Vole has been...

The new taskbar has some great features, Aero Peek and Jump Lists are two things I really like. However, here is the big problem lets say I have a few chat windows open and they're all hidden behind another window (lets say Firefox) If someone sends me a message the chat icon flashes to...

I was wondering, since there will be a several month gap between the end date of the beta and the release of the final win/7, how does this work? forgive my ignorance, this is the first beta i've ever used. Will I be able to access the files I have saved in my folders after the end date, or will...

Hided Icon box ------------------------ in the notification area, windows shows hidden icons with the upper button.. When we click it, the hidden icons box appears.. In hidden box , we can sort the icons but i wish we were able to size it too.. in my windows , 9 icons sorted 3x3 for now, but i...

When using windows 7 my mouse is very slow to respond, and stutters across the screen, making almost uncontrollable. sometimes it moves as it should but most of the time it jerks and stutters all over the screen when im trying to move it. Also it stops responding to button presses ( ie wont...

Honestly everybody knows the taskbar is probably the most updated feature of windows 7 however i think it has a major flaw that is going to make people try to get the quick launch back... there is no simple way of adding one click access to a favorite folder or a hard drive... You cannot...

In the disk manager tool, I tried to partition (create/name) a new partition out of free, unallocated space. but the virtual disk service blows up and the partition is "created" but it gains no letter drive and is not usable. i tried rebooting and trying it again, no luck. same thing happens...

I wonder if anyone tried this with the new task of win 7 1. open 2 windows of firefox/internet explorer 2. open another 2 documents of word 3. minimize all of them now, how do we get to the first opened firefox window? or any of the word document? i have to move the cursor to the firefox icon...