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When you try to extend a volume using Disk Management in Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008, you may be unable to click Next in the Extend Volume Wizard.

Consider the following scenario:

• You configure the Internet Explorer Maintenance Group Policy settings in an Active Directory domain or on a client computer.
• You start Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) on a Windows Vista-based client computer.
• You view the Group Policy results on the Settings tab.

In this scenario, the Group Policy settings for a Windows Vista-based client computer are not displayed correctly. However, the settings are successfully applied to the client computer.

Note: When you stat GPMC on a Windows XP-based computer or on a Windows Server 2003-based computer, the settings are displayed correctly.

Consider the following scenario.

• On a Windows Vista-based computer, you install the hotfix that is mentioned in Microsoft Knowledge Base article 932626.
• You plug in an IBM MicroDrive PCMCIA device into the computer.

In this scenario, you may notice that the MicroDrive drive letter does not appear in the Disk Management node of the Computer Management console. However, the IBM MicroDrive drive letter did appear in the console before you installed this hotfix.

Consider the following scenario:

• You are running a Windows Vista-based computer that has a USB card reader or a built-in card reader.
• You try to use the Computer Management tool.

In this scenario, you may receive one of the following error messages.

Message 1

Windows - No Disk
There is no disk in the drive.
Please insert a disk into drive.

Message 2

Windows - no disk Exception
processing message - 0×0000013 Parameters parameters1parameters2parameters3parameters4

After you click any of the buttons in the error message, Windows Vista appears to work correctly.

This problem occurs if the following conditions are true:

• The Removable Disks: Deny read access Group Policy setting and the Removable Disks: Deny write access Group Policy setting are enabled on the computer.
• There is no media in the card reader.

Note: This problem may also occur under other conditions. For example, this problem may occur if the GrooveMonitor.exe process is running.

On a Windows Vista-based computer, you use a custom application that gathers system information by using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). For example, you use a custom application gathers information about hardware, drivers, or firmware by using WMI. When you do this, WMI may not correctly report information about certain USB disk devices. Because of this problem, the custom application may not correctly recognize the USB disk device.

A tutorial showing how to use Vista’s power management controls.

You may experience one or more of the following power management-related symptoms on a computer that is running Windows Vista:

• You cannot shut down the computer.
• You cannot put the computer into a power saving mode such as sleep or hibernation.
• Windows Vista does not resume from sleep successfully.
• Certain devices do not work correctly when Windows Vista resumes from sleep.
• You experience instability in Windows Vista when you use a power saving power option.