Next week is Fix-Hack-Learn week at Microsoft. Basically a whole week where you can work on whatever you want on any product across the whole company. Want to add some new feature to Github? Add VR support to MS Teams video chat? Mess around with Minecraft? Add a missing hotkey into Excel? Literally anything is on the table for anyone at the company so if your request sounds interesting enough to work on chances are it will.<p>My brain is overloaded by the sheer magnitude of possibility.<p>Crowdsourcing ideas from the HN folks because I am sure lots of you will have some great ideas!
Ok so here is my quick list of Windows-related headaches that are (probably) not that hard to fix<p>-Need to jump through hoops to get into sound control panel. Basically adding it to the same menu where volume mixer resides would be perfect<p>-Sound device blacklist/priority list (lets say I have 2 monitors with craptastic speakers in them, so they appear as viable playback devices and sometimes when I connect my laptop to them, sound output automatically gets switched to one of them. I want a way to prevent this. Maybe there is one but I haven't managed to find it/doesn't work for me)<p>-The display arrangement tool being ass backwards when having 2 1080p monitors on top of a 4k one. Seems to me like there is some kind of more fundamental underlying problem/bug which just happens to not affect things most of the time<p>-Scaling for individual monitors<p>-Matching windows opening to monitor where they were called (say, the icon in the start menu is clicked on monitor 3, then the window of said application should also be created on monitor 3)<p>-Windows trying to use authentication by face using internal webcam when laptop lid is closed<p>-Making notepad more like notepad++ (adding line count, better handling of long lines, etc). Its a great bare-bones tool which needs a little facelift. Especially no auto line break makes it bad for just typing something out.<p>-Showing more telemetry like CPU temps in task manager would be nice<p>Probably mostly boring stuff and more like a personal feature request, which, tbh, it kind of is, so don't overthink this or something.
A search "engine" inside PowerShell: You can type anything in the terminal, and it displays all the matching commands (with help snippets) in real-time. Then, if you type a command, it displays its help (snippets around the words after the command).<p>This would make discovering how to do things in PowerShell more interactive and enjoyable.
It would probably require integrating with the PowerShell reference doc on docs.microsoft.com...