Windows Feature Suggestions

Welcome to the Windows Feature Suggestion Box!

Windows Feature Suggestion Box provides the Windows PC/Tablet user community with a channel for feedback. To help us build the best version of Windows ever, we created this forum to hear your ideas, suggestions and feedback.

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  1. Please merge PC settings and Control Panel!

    Most of the options are redundant (present in both) and the options which are not confuse the users! Why can't there be a single place to control all the settings?
    For example- New users can be made both from pc settings and control panel. This is redundant!
    Why do I have to go the PC settings to forget a network and Control panel to change IP settings? Can't this all be done from a single place?--- Confuses some people to switch back and forth between pc settings and control panel!
    Please either make the whole concept a modern one or…

    2,305 votes
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      17 comments  ·  Improved Experience  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    • give us the ability to customize the Login Screen

      I mean the one that displays the User Account Picture after booting the system, just give us the ability to put a wallpaper on it, like we used to do in Windows 7.

      1,145 votes
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        18 comments  ·  Personalization and Ease of Access  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
      • windows store for iranian people

        please open windows store for iranian people

        920 votes
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          19 comments  ·  Windows Store  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
        • Improve Install/Uninstall to keep Clean/Junk Registry Free OS

          If needed redesign(windows installer .exe) softwares that can keep os unaffected self-clean from cache, junk files, registry keys that make windows vulnerable and increase unwanted disk space. Now a days softwares are distributing malwares and browser hijacking toolbars. Take necessary steps to make maintenance free windows. This is the PLUS-POINT of Mac OS X and Ubuntu.

          934 votes
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            6 comments  ·  Performance and Maintenance  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
          • Add tabs to Windows Explorer/File Explorer

            Title is self explanatory. Please add tabs to Windows Explorer/File Explorer. Every other OS has this feature and Windows is severely lagging behind.

            Best examples here: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-tools-to-add-tabbed-browsing-to-windows-explorer/ and here http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/28997/add-tabbed-browsing-to-explorer-in-windows-7/

            QTTabBar is the best implementation, however a user should be able to view two tabs side by side within the one single Explorer Window pane.

            4,023 votes
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              29 comments  ·  Files, Folders and Online Storage  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
            • Fix the annoying Thumbnail Cache Automatic Deletion Problem

              it's present in Windows since Windows 8, it's drive me crazy literally!, since I use a lot of pictures and videos in my design career, every time I boot to Windows 8 and later 8.1 and now in Windows 10 TP the Thumbnail Cache reset and I forced to waste a lot of time waiting for all my pictures and videos to be thumbnailed before I can use them, please fix it.

              773 votes
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                17 comments  ·  Improved Experience  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
              • Game Mode

                Add a game mode where Windows works optimally for games, disabling everything that isn't necessary for games and releasing the full power of the hardware for games.

                663 votes
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                  6 comments  ·  Gaming  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                • 2,192 votes
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                    15 comments  ·  Improved Experience  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                  • Make Windows free for everyone

                    Simple as that make Windows free

                    2,072 votes
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                      29 comments  ·  Improved Experience  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                    • Make Windows Update the one stop for all drivers.

                      Why should we have third-party services or applications to update drivers? E.g., Vaio Update. If disabled, we get in troubles when upgrading Windows.

                      Regardless of the OEM, Windows Update should be the only place to obtain drivers. No intel.com, toshiba.com, lenovo.com or intel.com.

                      3,070 votes
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                        32 comments  ·  Devices and Drivers  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                      • 1,425 votes
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                          14 comments  ·  Files, Folders and Online Storage  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                        • let us bind programs to specific audio outputs

                          Let us map program A to headset, program B as well and program C to the speakers. Program D should go to the speakers as well and program E to the headset. Is this possible?

                          1,423 votes
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                            13 comments  ·  Devices and Drivers  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                          • Bring back Aero Glass from Windows 8 Developer Preview

                            I understand you've made concessions with Windows Aero (lite) we'll call it to allow for better battery life on portable devices; Microsoft is forgetting that over 250 million (75 million of them on Steam alone) are using Gaming PCs capable of driving more GPU and RAM hungry OS shells like Aero Glass.

                            Please allow us to have the choice to use the Aero Glass you so kindly provided in Windows 8 Developer preview and took from us in RTM.

                            http://i.imgur.com/JRcHWds.jpg

                            We should not have to pay third party developers (http://www.glass8.eu/) to bring back something which was already made…

                            1,894 votes
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                              67 comments  ·  Personalization and Ease of Access  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                            • Name Windows updates as to what they are actually doing to the system

                              Improve information regarding Windows updates; don't just link to a KB-article, name the update as to what it is actually doing to the system.

                              332 votes
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                                3 comments  ·  Windows Update  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                              • Built-in support for multiple codecs

                                Windows 10 should support MKV natively, along with embedded subtitles and multiple audio tracks in video files, along with wav, ogg, flac, mp3, mp4, etc.

                                1,225 votes
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                                  11 comments  ·  Music, Photos and Video  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                • Show Folder Size in File Explorer

                                  Simple idea but a needed option! Currently (to my knowledge) there is not a way to see how large a folder size is (in MB) aside from hovering over the folder, which doesn't always tell you, and right click > properties. Both of which can be a hassle if you have many folders to check on.

                                  Please make this an option in Windows 10! Thank you.

                                  373 votes
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                                    7 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                  • Drag Applications to another Virtual Desktop

                                    I tried to drag and drop an application to another Virtual Desktop and was surprised it wasn't possible.

                                    I couldn't figure out how to get Chrome from one desktop to another virtual desktop either.

                                    Probably still a work in progress, but definitely a required feature.

                                    981 votes
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                                      4 comments  ·  Improved Experience  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                    • 404 votes
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                                        5 comments  ·  Windows Store  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                      • Better multi-monitor support

                                        -Toolbar (clock & icons) on every monitor
                                        -PC locked on all monitors (like this: http://i.imgur.com/1JXjGRq.jpg )

                                        1,168 votes
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                                          11 comments  ·  Devices and Drivers  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                        • Let me pin ANYTHING I want to the start screen (shortcuts and files and any other thing that I want, not just executables).

                                          Sometimes I want to pin just a file to my Start screen, or a shortcut to something. But I can't. Windows only lets me pin certain types of things to the Start screen. It's my Start screen. Let me pin whatever I want.

                                          1,375 votes
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