Applies ToWindows Vista Home Basic Windows Vista Home Premium Windows Vista Ultimate Windows Vista Business Windows Vista Enterprise Windows Vista Starter Windows Vista Home Basic 64-bit Edition Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit Edition Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit Edition Windows Vista Business 64-bit Edition Windows Vista Enterprise 64-bit Edition

Symptoms

In Windows Vista, when you view the properties of a WordPad document that was created in Windows XP, some properties may not appear.This problem occurs if the document was created by right-clicking the desktop, pointing to New, and then clicking WordPad Document. When you do this is Windows XP, the WordPad document uses the .doc file name extension.

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