What would you wish to be improved in the next version of WindowsExplorer?

Personally, I think Microsoft should spend more time improving Windows

Explorer than any other softwares included in Windows. It looks like

as new versions of Windows come out, Microsoft is showing off brand

new bundled applications for example the Sidebar, DVD Maker, Windows

Picture Gallery or something for Vista. Actually there are many good

or better softwares that can replace them. Many of them are even

freewares. See Picasa for example.

But Windows Explorer, it cannot be easily replaced, and most of the

time, we are dealing with Windows Explorer. Making good application is

what other companies are to do, what Microsoft should do is to improve

the OS. So I hope Microsoft would put more and more functionalities to

Windows Explorer. Of course those should be able to be turned on and

off in order not to confuse novice users.

Some improvements I can think of are,

1) Queuing file move/copy operations: this will be useful if you need

to copy many files to a slow medium like a flash memory drive.

Currently, you can start copying with multiple files are selected, but

once it has started, there's no way to add new files to copy to the

operation. And, if you commit another copying, it will be started

promptly rather than being queued, thus causing both copying

operations to be slow.

2) Remembering speed displaying status : I need to unfold it each and

every time to see the copying speed.

3) Pausing file copy operations: when copying a big file, the computer

may become very slow, you need to do something right now quickly but

you don't want to cancel the copying and start it from the beginning

again.

4) Quick toggle buttons on the Explorer toolbar for showing hidden and

system files: these days, many files could be created hidden. This

could also be some security issue. But changing the setting is not

easy, and you don't want to see the system files all the time, it's

ugly.

5) "Open command prompt here" for the context menu : now that TweakUI

is unavailable for Vista.

6) "New folder" context menu, instead of New -> move the mouse ->

Folder.

7) Remove Internet Explorer history from Windows Explorer address

bar : annoying, now that Windows Explorer cannot host Internet

Explorer but launch a separate process.

8) Hiding file extensions by default can be deceptive and confusing.

But other people who have used Windows for a long time should have

many better ideas how to improve Windows Explorer.