Known Vista Errors (Software issues, not Hardware!)

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Clip board may contain old entry's when doing another Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V.

Very difficult, to change to a explorer window, by clicking the bottom of the window.

Tool tips in notification bar may pop up underneath, same bug as XP.

Pasting files using Ctrl+V in to an explorer window, may not always work, have to click on the file area of the explorer window, before it lets you.

Windows Movie maker, stops updating the preview window after some time, when editing media center recoded footage.

Paint keeps saying it failed to save the file.

Media Player crashes, if you skip songs to fast, more often if its a play list containing http links.

When going hardware tab, on a drives properties, and selecting properties on a device, populate is broken, especially on 64bit vista.

Some times after exiting a program, eg game, remote desktop, other full screen app, the glass effect on the test bar is only half the bar.

Vista fails to suspend, if a pcmcia network card is inserted, vista will site there with a black screen, and is unable to resume.

Hibernate is missing, but may come back if vista is reinstalled.

The supposed can change the battery on a laptop using vista suspend, does not work.

Inability to disable suspend. As it does not work on 99% of computers. Turns every thing off and then back on again, and others are unable to resume from suspend.

Power management, when using mains power, is affected by battery settings, the turn off screen is the worst offender.

CD burning, does not tell you how much free space you have, so you can max out the disk, before hitting the burn button.

CD burning, does not have the option to verify a disk, bad disk = lost data.

using FTP to move data from the FTP source, deletes the data, and sometimes then says the data does not exist.

TrustedInstaller.exe keeps using excessive amounts of CPU for no apparent reason, at random intervals in the day.

System process in using 18% of the CPU all the time.

Media player sometimes does not show when opening content, it has to be then opened from the start menu.

media player fails to close, when pressing the X, it is still in memory, and locking all the files it has open.

media player sometimes fails to minimize, when using the task bar to minimize it.

media player sometimes is glass almost over the whole app.

media player refuses to add a mkv video to the play list, instead clears the play list and plays the mkv.

Recycle Bin Sometimes has no icon, requiring the desktop to be refreshed to get it back.

On Vista 64, Windows Update keeps saying SQL Server 2005 SP2 needs to be installed, when it already is.

Moving Folders may leave empty folders at the source

Creating and renaming a folder too fast, may create a 50K file with that name instead

When copying files from a compressed zip file to a folder, the files may get encrypted.

TCP traffic can become very slow, after Vista has been running for some time.