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No PC to PC sync in vista?! [No PC to PC sync in vista?!]

GRiNSER — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 21:09:02 GMT

according to some newssites, vista won't come with the PC-to-PC syncronisation function (which was planned to be included and still can be seen in beta 2) because it does not reach internal quality requirements.

man, i need this feature very much! I have a laptop and a PC which need to be syncronized as i work with both and need the data in a consistent shape.

now it looks like i have to stick with the SyncToy powertoy for my vista-life, or will we get the sync stuff later on with an update?

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installing winfx problems [installing winfx problems]

GRiNSER — Tue, 23 May 2006 21:50:36 GMT

i'm trying to install the winfx beta 2 runtime but the installation doesn't work since it stops with a typical program exception when it reaches 20 mb of 24 mb at downloading. that's very annoying, anyone got the same results?

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Will Vista include more windowsettings for the user? [Will Vista include more windowsettings for the user?]

GRiNSER — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 12:22:58 GMT

It would be nice if we were able to change the opacity of every window with a slidercontrol within the windows standard UI.
with the new DWM it shouldn't be that difficult to realise this.
the slider could be in the right click menu of a specific window in the taskbar or the opacity could be changed with a key-combo...

Also it would be nice to have a checkbox option by default in the OS to put specific windows in the front of all other windows. This is currently only possible if a specific program supports it but most programmers forget to implement it...

What other small but important additions might help better organizing program windows?

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Big Annoyance with Explorer.exe [Big Annoyance with Explorer.exe]

GRiNSER — Tue, 03 May 2005 20:58:14 GMT

What annoys me most with all Win versions till Win XP is, when the explorer.exe crashes, everytime the whole taskbar also wents to desktop nirvana.
After recreating itself, half of the systray symbols get lost until i restart my machine. Sometimes i've to use the taskmanager to re-open an explorer instance to get the taskbar back and get back to work...

what i suggest for further Windows releases would be a seperation of the file browsing so called "explorer" windows and the taskbar itself on process level - i don't think that this is so hard to do for the devs but it would eliminate the IMO most annoying error after the blue screen of death...

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