Ramblings on IT

I love Windows 7. By far, the best Windows O/S ever made.

Except for this problem:

http://cnanney.com/video/win7-jump-bug/

THIS DRIVES ME BONKERS. When it first started happening, I chalked it up to a minor thing that I could ignore, but it’s now put me over the edge, and apparently it’s STILL a problem in the Windows 8 developer preview.

For all the ‘usability’ marketing and PR we see for Windows 7, who invented this ‘feature’? There’s even a comment in the following thread from a Microsoftie that says it is ‘by design’:

Windows Explorer expands folders inappropriately, jumping the folder you expand to the bottom of the navigation pane

Saying it’s ‘by design’ is developer-speak for “we don’t want to fix it.”

This is so annoying, I purchased Xplorer2 – a File Explorer replacement, which is great, except it doesn’t replace everything, and I still want to use the old Explorer for some things (search, for example).

Would someone at Microsoft PLEASE escalate this issue and get it fixed? It is a problem, and makes Windows 7 just a little less usable than it should be.