When you open the Properties page for a sound output device in a Spanish version of Windows Vista, the text on the Mejoras tab may not appear correctly. For example, the Vista previa button may contain truncated text. Other text may also be truncated.

On a Windows Vista-based computer, the Volume slider and the Balance sliders may unexpectedly display different numeric values. For example, the Balance sliders may all display a level of 23, even though the Volume slider displays a level of 24.

Note: You can find these sliders in the Sound item in Control Panel.

When you try to restart or to shut down Windows Vista, you receive the following message:

The following programs are still running:

• Explorer.exe
  Playing logoff sound

To close these programs and restart your computer,
click Restart Now.

You may lose work that you haven’t saved.

Note: If you are trying to shut down Windows Vista, “click Shut down now” appears in this message instead of “click Restart Now.”

If you click Restart Now or Shut down, as appropriate, Windows Vista restarts or shuts down as expected. This behavior also occurs if you just wait.

When you adjust the Volume slider or the Balance slider in the Sound item in Control Panel in Windows Vista, the level setting may change slightly after you click OK. The exact setting for the Volume slider or for the Balance slider is not retained.

For example, the level setting may change slightly in the following scenario:

• You open the Sound item in Control Panel, you select a device on the Playback tab, and then you click Properties.
• You click the Levels tab, and then you adjust the Volume slider level or the Balance slider level.
• You click OK, and then you reopen the dialog box.

Note: This issue may be easier to detect if you switch to decibel (dB) view. To do this, right-click the value box that shows the current level, and then click decibels.

A simple video that plays a sound from XP, then the equivalent sound from Vista.

The startup logo and sound from Vista. Strangely enough, this is not the sound my machine plays when it starts up.

In Windows Vista, the Sound item in Control Panel includes the option to set a device format. However, the list of supported formats in the Sound item may be incorrect. This problem may occur when you use a legacy audio device that has hardware controls that can change the format of the device.