Windows Live Taskforce

Screensaver won't start when Windows Live Messenger is running

Submitted by huntah302 on March 28, 2010 to Annoyance, Bug

Problem: I set the Bubbles screensaver to start after 1 minute, but when Windows Live Messenger is running, no matter how long I leave my computer inactive, the screensaver doesn't kick in, nor does any of the power saving settings for that matter!

Solution: Fix the problem.

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

WLM can't be closed while menu is open

Submitted by Aethec on March 20, 2010 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

Problem: -Press Alt to show the menu in WLM's contact list
-Click on the window's Close button
=> Nothing happens.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(2 comments)

WLM doesn't use the system color for menu bar

Submitted by Aethec on March 20, 2010 to Aesthetics, Annoyance

Problem: The menu bar in WLM's Contact lists, which appears if you press Alt, doesn't use the system color. But it uses the system color for the hover effect.
This looks ugly on non-default themes.

Solution: Use system color.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(1 comments)

another way around emoticons

Submitted by bflatbush on March 11, 2010 to Annoyance

Problem: Cartoon emoticons replacing typed emoticons automatically on windows live mail.

Solution: I found putting an extra space in between the colon and parenthesis will not convert to the irritating emoticon on windows live mail. So instead of :) try : ). It still looks good! I'd still like Windows mail to give us the option of turning (more...)

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(2 comments)

Windows Live Mail Missing Toolbar Icons

Submitted by DaveyBoyM on February 26, 2010 to Annoyance

Problem: I have just upgraded from Windows XP using Outlook Express to Windows 7 Home Premium. Why has Microsoft has removed the Toolbar Icons from Windows Live Mail? Surely this is abackward step??? perhaps they want everyone to upgrade there mail client to Outlook (more...)

Solution: Bring back the Toolbar Icons Bill Gates

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(2 comments)

Auto-save feature for Windows Live Movie Maker

Submitted by formula_86 on February 8, 2010 to Annoyance, Usability

Problem: Its annoying if you have been working on a large movie project in Windows Live Movie Maker, you have spent literally ages tweaking and customising the whole project to your liking, forgot to save your project, then it either randomly freezes up or displays (more...)

Solution: Add an auto-save feature like in the old Windows Movie Maker.

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(3 comments)

Smooth momentum scrolling in Live Mail's Calendar

Submitted by Chaztheman on February 8, 2010 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Usability

Problem: When scrolling through the calendar with the mouse, it jumps to the day below which, and when it reaches the end of the screen it jumps and the screen shows the next month.

Solution: Scrolling should not scroll the selected day but instead scroll through all the days smoothly with momentum (like picasa, or iphone momentum scrolling) with no 'jumping' to the next page.

Severity: Medium

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(2 comments)

Make the next/previous month more obvious in Live Mail's Calendar

Submitted by Chaztheman on February 8, 2010 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Usability

Problem: When viewing the calendar in month view, it is not clearly obvious where the month starts an finishes without reading the numbers. You should just be able to SEE all the days in the month.

Solution: Make the squares of each month alternating in shade (more subtle than my image!) Or outline the month.

Severity: Medium

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(1 comments)

when clicking "sign in... " at the tray icon, messenger opens main window, it doens´t sign in.

Submitted by marvinduran on February 6, 2010 to Annoyance

Problem: The tittle pretty much describes the problem. Why does the main window have to pop up when I have both my email and password saved? It should just sign in minimized.

Solution: None.

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

(2 comments)

Messenger's default smileys can't be changed

Submitted by Aethec on January 24, 2010 to Annoyance

Problem: You can't change WLM's default smileys.
It's annoying because sometimes you find really good smileys, but you can't really use them since ":-)", ":-(", etc are already used.

Solution: Allow us to change the default smileys, and maybe add a "Reset default smileys" button.

Severity: Low

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

(3 comments)

New Icons and Images

Submitted by nifke on January 21, 2010 to Annoyance, Bug, Icons

Problem: Go to
Control Panel > Programs and Features
and set your view to "Extra Large Icons"

Solution: Icons and images schould be updated.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

Clean SkyDrive URLs

Submitted by nifke on January 16, 2010 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

Problem: My SkyDrive URL is too long. When I want to share it I need to look at the website first and copy paste it because I can't remember the long range of characters in the url.

Instead of (more...)

Solution: Making the URL shorter and more readable with your name, nickname instead of a long ID number

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

Bring back pop-up reminders in Windows Calendar

Submitted by gdmorgan on December 11, 2009 to Annoyance, Usability

Problem: Now in Windows Live Calendar (Windows 7), you can only receive an email as a reminder for calendar events. In Windows Calendar (Vista) you could set a pop-up reminder at a time interval of your choosing before the event occurs.

Solution: Bring back the functionality to set pop-up reminders at a time interval of your choosing (as was possible in Windows Vista).

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed