In Windows Vista, the Svchost.exe process stops responding when you try to copy encrypted Encrypting File System (EFS) files to a Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) resource. If you use Windows Explorer to do this, Windows Explorer stops responding. You may have to restart the computer.

Note: The Svchost.exe process hosts the WebClient service.

When you try to save an encrypted 2007 Microsoft Office document to a WebDAV resource, you may receive an error message that says that the document cannot be saved.

On a Windows Vista-based computer, you cannot use keyboard shortcuts to select more than one item in Windows Explorer. For example, you cannot use the CTRL+A keyboard shortcut to select all the items in a Windows Explorer window. Also, you cannot select multiple items in a Windows Explorer window by holding the SHIFT key or the CTRL key while you click the items.

The following problems may occur in Windows Vista:

• Microsoft Windows Explorer does not display the thumbnail for MPEG2 format video files when you open the video folder.
• Microsoft Windows Media Center does not display the thumbnail for MPEG2 format video files when you open the video library.
• When you right-click a MPEG2 format video in the Windows Media Center video library and then click Video Details, you receive an error message that resembles the following:
  

  Unable to display video thumbnail

  Windows Media Center is unable to display the thumbnail for this video.

Note: This problem does not affect how the MPEG2 file plays.

When you try to use Windows Photo Gallery or Windows Explorer on a Windows Vista-based computer to add metadata to a Canon RAW file that has a .tif file name extension, the file is corrupted.

When you view files and folders by using Windows Explorer, the Windows Explorer menu bar is not displayed.

Note: The Windows Explorer menu bar includes the File menu, the Edit menu, the View menu, the Tools menu, and the Help menu.

After you copy an image that is in a RAW file format to a computer that is running Windows Vista, the image does not appear in Windows Photo Gallery. Additionally, you may be unable to view thumbnail images of the picture by using Windows Explorer.

When you use Windows Explorer to try to remove the drive:\$WINDOWS.OLD folder from a computer that has been upgraded from an earlier version of Windows to Windows Vista, Windows Explorer crashes. In this scenario, you receive the following error message:

Faulting application Explorer.EXE, version 6.0.5756.0, time stamp 0×452999fb, faulting module SHELL32.dll, version 6.0.5756.0, time stamp 0×4529b38a, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0×000000000000c941, process id 0xbf8, application start time 0×01c6ecae8503dd46.

Note: The $WINDOWS.OLD folder is a hidden system folder. Sometimes, this folder has a name other than $WINDOWS.OLD. For example, this folder may be named $WINDOWS.~Q. For information about how to view this folder, see the “More Information” section.

When you try to open a file or a folder on an external Sony Ultra Portable universal serial bus (USB) drive (model VGP-UHDP04) that is connected to a Windows Vista-based computer, you cannot access the file or the folder. Additionally, Windows Explorer stops responding. This problem occurs after you wake the Windows Vista-based computer from hibernation.

Our previous tip showed how to add a checkbox next to all of your files. Today’s tip allows you to add much, much more. When you view your files by ‘Details’ in Explorer, Vista has default columns of information that it shows, depending on the folder you are looking at. When I open my Documents folder, I see Name, Date modified, Type, Size, and Tags. My Pictures folder has Ratings instead of Type, and Date taken instead of Date modified. You’ll find differences in many of the other folders you open as well, as Vista tries to show you information related to the type of content you have in a folder. But what if Vista isn’t showing you what you want to see? Keep reading →

Vista has a number of interesting hidden features. Snowball - The Blog points out one of them, being able to add check boxes to items in the explorer. This gives another option for selecting multiple items (instead of using the CTRL or SHIFT keys). Keep reading →