On a computer that is running Windows Vista Tablet PC, you use a tablet pen to click the Sound icon in the notification area. However, when you click Mixer, Volume Mixer does not open. In this scenario, you must click Mixer several times to open Volume Mixer.

This problem also occurs when you use a mouse to open Volume Mixer.

Consider the following scenario on a Windows Vista Tablet PC-based computer:

• You extend the desktop to an external monitor.
• You set the external monitor as the main monitor.
• You shut down the Windows Vista Tablet PC-based computer.
• You detach the external monitor from the Windows Vista Tablet PC-based computer.

In this scenario, when you restart the operating system, and you use the built-in monitor, you may find that the tablet pen does not work.

On a Windows Vista-based Tablet PC that has Microsoft Office Outlook installed, the Windows Search Indexer crashes. When this issue occurs, you receive the following error message:

Microsoft Windows Search Indexer stopped working and was closed. A problem caused the application to stop working correctly. Windows will notify you if a solution is available.

When the Windows Search Indexer crashes, you cannot search in Outlook. In this situation, you must restart both the Windows Search Indexer and Outlook.

On a Windows Vista-based Tablet PC, links to Tablet PC applications are broken. Specifically, the following links are broken: Flicks Training, Ink Watson, Pen Training, Shape Collector, and Touch Training. To view the links, click Start, click All programs, click Accessories, and then click Tablet PC.

On a Windows Vista-based desktop computer, the Tablet PC folder is empty. To view the folder, click Start, click All programs, and then click Accessories.

On a Windows Vista-based Tablet PC, you cannot type some special characters if you use the on-screen keyboard and a physical keyboard at the same time.

For example, you cannot type the ã character by pressing ALT GR+~+A on a Tablet PC that has the on-screen keyboard enabled. Even after you close the on-screen keyboard, you cannot type the ã character in this manner.

When you type some special characters, you have to press the ALT key or the ALT GR key. This problem occurs for any language that contains these special characters.

After you type a command at a command prompt on a Toshiba Tablet PC that is running Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2), the computer stops responding.

For example, this problem may occur after you type the start chcp 1252 command.

You add a word to the dictionary by using the Windows Vista Tablet PC Input Panel. After you do this, you notice that the word still has an Add option.

After you change the theme on a Windows Vista Tablet PC, the “Handwriting recognition personalization” tool is resized. When the tool is resized, the layout of the “Handwriting recognition personalization tool” becomes distorted.

On a Tablet PC that is running Windows Vista, if you set a programmable button that is associated with the Press and hold list to turn off your display, the Turn off display option does not work correctly. However, you expect the display to turn off until user input or a wake event wakes the computer. In this case, the display turns off only briefly. The display turns back on when you release the button.

When you set the focus to a password field in an application by holding a pen near the field, the floating in-place Tablet PC Input Panel icon does not appear. This problem occurs if the application is created by using the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) subsystem feature of the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0.