A Windows 7 Flaw that is easy to fix!

[randomizer]

Do you REALLY need new colors and graphics to visualize your hard drives? Get a grip...

Do you REALLY need glass and pretty start buttons to visualise your taskbar?

I actually agree with the OP. If they are going to add ridiculous amounts of eye candy everywhere else, why not fix up this?

 

[croc]

Do you REALLY need glass and pretty start buttons to visualise your taskbar?

I actually agree with the OP. If they are going to add ridiculous amounts of eye candy everywhere else, why not fix up this?

I really just don't get this argument. Wheels are round. Can one improve the wheel? OK, add some flashy spinners. Is the wheel any more round? Make the wheel larger. Is it any more round? A round pie-chart is a simple representation that most win users can easily understand. Will changing the colours make it any easier to understand? The transparancy... Easier?

I can get much more detailed information using the 'dir' command, but for the average Joe Bloggs, is he going to know any more? And how often does Joe Bloggs even really check his disk utilization? Or defrag his disks for that matter...

Give me winfs. THAT will be a useful improvement. But, instead, we get spinners... And some people seem to like spinners.

(Why didn't Paul Allen re-code the df utility instead of writing the dir utility???)

 

[randomizer]

Will changing the colours make it any easier to understand? The transparancy... Easier?

Of course it won't. But then why is the taskbar transparent instead of boring grey now? Why does the star button glow? Why is there a weird glass effect over the entire desktop when I move the mouse over the lower right of the taskbar? These areas of the GUI change every time Windows changes (more so once XP came out), so why did this particular dialog get left alone for more than 10 years?

 

[croc]

Of course it won't. But then why is the taskbar transparent instead of boring grey now? Why does the star button glow? Why is there a weird glass effect over the entire desktop when I move the mouse over the lower right of the taskbar? These areas of the GUI change every time Windows changes (more so once XP came out), so why did this particular dialog get left alone for more than 10 years?

Dunno, TBH. Maybe 'don't fix what isn't broke'? Maybe the contract that they signed with PCTools might have something to do with it? But it seems to be a small point to pick nits on when there are so many other 'features' that could have been well improved for far longer. How about a recursive 'dir' switch? How about an inode count in the 'dir' command? Small details, but picking nits is picking nits. I have many irritations with MS over many things that could have well and truly been improved. Some of them, I know why they weren't. Some of them seem to be 'commercial in confidence'.

I could write you a custom, pretty interface for that utility, but why? There are many third party apps out there that probably do a far better job than I could, and some of them are even FREE!

 

[randomizer]

I really don't care much if they never change the interface eye candy. I don't need glass to work. But if they are going to change everything, they should change everything.

 

[cjl]

Admittedly its been a very long time since I looked at anything in Win98, but if the drive properties picture posted is win98 I'll eat my hat

It says the drive is NTFS for a start and has a security taband a quota tab, indexing in 98? was there such a thing?

Agreed.

This is a real Win98 shot:

http://www.sfsu.edu/~helpdesk/pics/localdisk_properties.gif

Admittedly, they look practically identical aside from the options available, but still, if you're going to gripe this much, at least get the screenshot right. As for the entire argument? I'm with the crowd who doesn't get the big deal. I see tweaks to these kinds of minor screens as far less important than the main desktop UI, and honestly, functionality should prevail over fanciness on screens like this. I wouldn't mind if MS updated the appearance (so long as the functionality remained intact - some of the 3d proposals above are hideous for example), but I hardly see it as a priority right now.