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We need your help in making windows 11, simple and easy to use!
Hello all, Me and some friends are researching a quality-of-life app for our university's final year that can make the most of out a user's experience on windows, return the old feel of windows XP, 7 and 10 and remove all the slop, privacy risks and useless features that people dont need. The app will be free to use for all.
We want the communities help in identifying the features that you find invasive, or consider slop, or features that you want to see comeback because they were useful (no nostalgia bait please LOL, though if the need be, the option for nostalgia bait options like the old fruitger aero icons are on the table! just if you're suggesting anything that falls in this category do mark it.)
we also want information on how we can make this app easy to use and functional for a common everyday user perhaps tolerable options on what you want to see?
So if you can drop any feature that can be described as "irritating" or dysfunctional please feel free to mention them.
ALSO REALLY IMPORTANT:
Ask your friends/family who may not be AS familiar with tech or the internals of the windows in general; the not-so-tech-savvy types, about THEIR concerns. We have some gripes of our own with windows, but we fear may not be shared amongst the common folks.
Thank you!
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Hi, this sounds like a useful project idea, especially if you keep it focused on safe and reversible quality-of-life changes. My main suggestion would be to avoid deep registry tweaks unless they are clearly documented and can be undone. Users will trust the app more if every change explains what it does, why it matters, and how to roll it back. Privacy-wise, keep processing local where possible and be very clear about what data is collected. For Windows design feedback itself, I’d also collect user pain points and send the common ones through Feedback Hub so they can reach the product team.
