Brady McDermott
Brady McDermott
An interesting but useful functionality in the original Program Manager was the ability to change the name and icon of the running application by creating a new program item that...
When Program Manager II is first launched, it starts with no program groups. A default group created either from the windows accessory start menu folder or made to cover most...
Localization support should be implemented through MUI. This should allow support for as far back as Windows XP. Have a preprocessor define to enable/disable localization through MUI for compilation on...
The user should be able to drag an application onto a program group and have it automatically add itself with the application's default icon and friendly name, extracted from the...
Mostly self explanatory. On the first launch of Program Manager II for any given user, a wizard should be presented that guides the users on: - Migrating their old program...
Program Manager's primary purpose is a program launcher. Due to its inception in the late 1980s and halted development in the early 1990s, not much progress was made in the...
Using the Microsoft HTML Help resources, improved and updated documentation for the Program Manager should be created to increase ease of use for new users and cover all the changes...
From Progman-x64: freedom7341/Progman-x64#7 Program Manager does not currently set the desktop wallpaper when you log in. May be solved in a similar manner but that seemed more like a band-aid...
Program Manager currently lacks any way to view or interact with the system's Notification Area. Popular shells like Cairo include the ability to view it. A tough to implement feature...