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Dr. Watson is not included in Windows Vista. The replacement for Dr. Watson is Problem Reports and Solutions. However, you cannot use Problem Reports and Solutions to create a full user-mode dump file. Keep reading →

This article introduces a hotfix that contains a design change for Windows Vista. In the release version of Windows Vista, you cannot delete or rename the Offline Files when you work offline. After you apply this hotfix, you can delete or rename the Offline Files when you work offline.

When you scan a volume on a Windows Server 2003-based computer by using the chkdsk /r command, you receive a status message that resembles the following:

CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
0 percent completed. 
1 percent completed. 
2 percent completed. 
3 percent completed. 
Windows replaced bad clusters in file <number>
of name <file name>.
100 percent completed. 
File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...

This status message incorrectly indicates that Windows replaced bad clusters. This status message can occur if the following conditions are true:

• The current volume has a compressed file.
• The size of the compressed file is larger than 4 gigabytes (GB).

Consider the following scenario:

• You attach an external “Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers” (IEEE) 1394 Serial Bus Protocol 2 (SBP2) hard disk and an external IEEE 1394 SBP2 optical drive to a Windows Vista-based computer.
• You copy files from the attached optical drive to the system internal hard disk.
• At the same time, you copy files from the attached hard disk to the system internal hard disk.

In this scenario, the file transfer from the attached devices to the system internal hard disk cannot be completed. The file transfer dialog box does not disappear until the system restarts. Additionally, the attached hard disk cannot be accessed, and the attached optical device loses its drive letter.

Consider the following scenario:

• You download a compressed (zip) file from the Internet to a computer that is running one of the following operating systems:
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1
  • Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2
  • Windows XP Service Pack 2
• You save this file to a disk that is formatted by using the NTFS file system.
• You extract the files from the compressed file by using the Extract All Files wizard.

In this scenario, the modified date of the extracted files changes to the date that you extracted the files.

Note: This problem does not occur when you use a third-party tool, such as WinZip, to extract the files.

When you try to copy files from a Windows Vista-based computer to another computer by using Windows Explorer, you may receive the following error message:

Out of memory
There is not enough memory to complete this operation.

This problem occurs if the following conditions are true:

• The files include extended attributes.
• You copy lots of files in a single operation.

In Windows Vista, you add the CopyFileBufferedSynchronousIo registry entry to improve the speed of a file copy operation. However, when you use Windows Explorer to copy a file from the Windows Vista-based computer to a computer that is running an older Windows operating system, the file copies only slightly more quickly.

Note: The file copies more quickly if you use a command-line tool to copy the file. You can use command-line tools such as Robocopy.exe and Xcopy.exe to copy the file.:

You transfer a file between a Windows Vista-based client computer and a file server that is running a previous Windows operating system. Then, the Windows Vista-based client stops responding. This problem occurs if the following conditions are true:

• Windows Vista and the file server use the Server Message Block (SMB) 1.0 protocol to transfer the file.
• The network connection between the Windows Vista-based client computer and the file server is lost when you transfer the file. For example, the network cable is unplugged when you transfer the file.

Note: When you transfer a file between a Windows Vista-based client computer and a file server that is running a previous Windows operating system, Windows Vista uses the SMB 1.0 protocol to transfer files.