41. Why is Firefox faster on Vista than Internet Explorer?
42. Give me a way to get Windows 2000/XP window behavior and Aero Glass visuals at the same time. Just because I like it to be attractive doesn’t mean I should have to look at the bloat and have bad keyboard navigation too.
43. The Mouse Control Panel still doesn’t give me a way to map extra mouse buttons to functions like “Close Window”.
44. Explorer windows should display the name of the current folder in what used to be the Titlebar area. It’s okay if it’s wierd-looking on the glass if you give me adjustments for it.
45. New Explorer windows don’t need to take up half a million pixels. Figure out how many files are in the folder the first time I open it, and size it accordingly to an aspect ratio of about 4:3. If I have three files, I don’t need room for 100.
46. When I maximize a window, the translucent areas shouldn’t loose their glassy properties.
47. The Bubbles screensaver reminds me of After Dark for Windows 3.11.
48. When I open Media Player, I don’t want it to take over all my file associations. I don’t want to go through a bunch of options (I’ll set those when I have time); I just want to play a file, so go directly to doing that.
49. Aero Glass turns off when I accept a Remote Assistance invitation. Seriously, I have the bandwidth for it!
50. ActiveSync’s functionality has been merged into Windows Vista by default. Now it won’t connect to my mobile device anymore.
51. Fix the Control Panel. You jacked it up, we all had a good laugh, but it’s over; now put it back the way it was.
52. Shift-Clicking on a folder or hyperlink is supposed to force a new window open to follow the link. This doesn’t always happen, and the behavior for deciding whether it does or not is erratic.
53. In the Window Color and Appearance dialog, give me an option to adjust the refraction index of the Glass.
54. (ahem) “Windows DreamScene can’t run as your desktop is now configured. Windows DreamScene cannot run because the total desktop size exceeds the primary video adapter’s maximum texture size”.
- That’s true. My primary video adapter has 512MB GDDR2 memory, and can probably fit enough textures for one video card. That (combined with there only being two RAMDACs) is why my primary video adapter is only connected to two of my monitors. The other four are connected to the two secondary adapters. Use their texture area. Seriously, 1.5GB of video memory should be plenty.
55. On the Screen Saver Settings dialog, under “Wait X minutes”, add “Shut off after X minutes”. Connect this to my power settings.
56. Let me forcefully change the audio input and output devices an open application is running, instead of having to change the default devices and reopen the application.
57. Windows Aero mouse cursors are nice, but my desktop size demands I use Extra Large Inverted. Add an Extra Large Windows Aero Inverted theme.
58. Pressing CTRL to locate the mouse cursor is a nice touch. Now, make it not mess with my running DirectX applications (i.e. videos and games).
59. From the personalize dialog, clicking “Display Settings” opens a new window; clicking “Color and Appearance” does not. What gives?
60. In the “Monitor” dialog (what used to be “Display Settings > Advanced”), instead of just dragging and dropping, let me adjust the pixel locations manually.
61. In the “Monitor” dialog, let me tell you the physical size of my monitors so I can scale the monitor avatars accurately, instead of based on an approximation of pixel quantity which doesn’t even account for DPI.
62. In XP, I couldn’t take a whole-desktop screenshot because the desktop was too big to fit in the clipboard. This is fixed in Vista. Apply this fix to XP SP3.

More to come as I compile the lists.