Comments on: Wish List

By: Renmiri

Renmiri — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 03:34:29 +0000

32 bit color for running Second life

By: Mark60

Mark60 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:18:15 +0000

Second Startup: This says it all, but the 20 second start up is just to the login screen. ,

By: Convert your Windows Server 2008 to a Workstation! | What’s UP

Convert your Windows Server 2008 to a Workstation! | What’s UP — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:34:09 +0000

[...] Wish List: Features we want to have in Windows Server 2008, but aren’t working yet. [...]

By: jin-sama

jin-sama — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:51:43 +0000

I think a PDF would be good, since i dont have internet in my apartment to look up if fail.

Btw thx for this tut

By: Mr. Ripley

Mr. Ripley — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:20:35 +0000

I would like to know how to do the following:

1. Make the shortcut arrow smaller without messing up other links/programs. I’ve read a few way but they all seem have side affects.

2. Put drive letters before the labels. “ShowDriveLettersFirst”=1 key in HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ does not work. I have tried numbers 1-4 in dword and qword and no dice.

3. Make “Computer” the first icon when arranging by name, like tweakui does in xp.

In general a reliable tweakui like app would be really be handy.

Arris: I won’t add this to the Wishlist because it’s more like a little problem. However you can make a topic about this at the Win2008Workstation Forum.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:43:05 +0000

How about the suspend and hibernate power saving options?

By: Steve-A-George

Steve-A-George — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:29:41 +0000

I think this qualifies as a wishlist item because I don’t think it’s currently possible:

Does anyone have hardware acceleration working for playing h.264 video? I know I don’t and despite my opteron 180 and Geforce 8600 I still cant play certain files contained in a .mkv without severe choppiness or AV sync loss.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:54:14 +0000

Quentin Server 2008 has its own media player 11 but you need to follow instructions to install Desktop expierience and it will be install, the only feature it doesnt have is the ability to stream to media servers like the xbox 360 etc.

By: prohajtgejmer

prohajtgejmer — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:55:57 +0000

Custom Vista-like logon screen? DO WANT

By: Quentin

Quentin — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 01:21:07 +0000

Does that mean windows server 2008 cannot run windows media player and other players?
I got a free cd key from microsoft, and I would like to build a media center with windows server 2008 for dowloading musics, movies and play them on HD tv.

By: Bret

Bret — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 23:30:26 +0000

got AC3 to work!

http://ac3filter.net/projects/ac3filter

By: JayIV

JayIV — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:42:16 +0000

Come on guys, we need media center!!!!

By: kongzifan

kongzifan — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:51:49 +0000

I wish SAS 9.0 could be run in win2008 x64, so that I can do my statistics homework in my desktop. Arris: There is a topic about this at the forum.

By: hoak

hoak — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:43:39 +0000

Editing Start Up & Shut Down Screens & Colors

Server 2003 offered editable registry entries under the key:

CODE[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Colors

That allowed you to change your boot screen and even menu colors; editing colors here doesn’t effect the load and shutdown screen in Server 2008…

Some have suggested that the boot screen assets are in binary boot files similar to Vista, but looking at the various candidates like “winlogon.exe” and “winload.exe.mui” don’t appear to have the appropriate assets or entries…

While primarily an aesthetic issue (it’s nice to be able to have congruent boot colors with your desktop); being able to edit load screen colors has a modest practical benefit for those that use CRT’s as it puts a bit less wear and tear on vulnerable fly-back transformers by avoiding the surges in gain that happen from full field color changes at boot — a particularly vulnerable time lot of people also power up their CRT and PC at the same time when the CRT PSU is sagging which makes matters worse…

Anyone have a clue how or where to go to edit the load and shutdown screen colors or assets?

=O)

By: Aras

Aras — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:54:43 +0000

Please to wish list:
install Windows Live Applications

Arris: Haven’t you looked under the Additional Information title at the Main Page? If you look in the ‘Useful forum Topics’ line you see how to install Windows Live Applications!

By: Bink

Bink — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:46:20 +0000

FWIW, I tried Anon’s regsrv32 DVD decoder suggestions, but they do not work. Also, I couldn’t get kstvtune.ax to register :/ .

By: ikyouCrow

ikyouCrow — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:39:30 +0000

hey! i’ve found an alternative to Media Center, and it’s free!
the Origami Experience Pack can be used to play your media in a similar fashion, but there is no TV support.

Arris: Thanks for your comment, I added it as workaround to the forum topic!

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:08:29 +0000

This website is great. Thank you for publishing all this. One change and one request: REQUEST: Enable the Windows Vista ALT-TAB Preview window (so you can see the contents of the screen rather than an icon) CHANGE: The instructions would leave you to believe you can install Windows, then perform these steps. This is not always the case. For example, I tried for two hours trying to install wireless then realized that I should step ahead to the tweaks and enable wireless, then complete my install. Thanks! Arris: Thanks for your feedback! The preview window when pressing Alt+Tab should be automatically be shown when you use the Vista Aero color scheme (step 9 of the Themes page). Your suggestion to set 'Enable Wireless' as step two is more logical indeed, so I changed the order of the pages. Thanks for your suggestions!

By: CharlyAR

CharlyAR — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:00:14 +0000

1. Thanks for this great site! I have found a lot of useful information.
2. Dumb question: I’d like to get the Windows Experience Index / Windows System Assessment Tool working in Windows 2008. Copied winsat.exe to system32. But I only get the xml output. Doy you know if there is a way to get the “graphical” output, or to read the XML “friendly”?

Cheers.

By: Henry

Henry — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:13:52 +0000

Garret, if you want media sharing use Tversity, it has been updated for support for Vista and Server 2008 and I use it quite often as I have loads of media.