It instead shows the window menu just like left click or Alt+Space does.

Right clicking on the top-left icon of the Explorer window no longer shows the context menu for that folder.

The address bar dropdown displays recently visited folder or file paths typed into the address bar and websites but does not show the complete top level file hierarchy.

The column by which items are sorted is not highlighted unlike Windows XP.

Various properties are not visible anymore from the Details tab, such as Audio sample rate and Audio sample size and Channels for certain audio files.

The Version file properties tab has been replaced by a Details tab that omits custom version information strings, does not show all of the same information as the Version tab and does not support copying any of the displayed information to the clipboard.

It no longer shows information depending on the criteria by which items are sorted.

Tiles view only shows the name, type and the size of items.

Ctrl+Enter on the selected folder no longer opens it in a new Explorer window.

WAV files ( Shmedia.dll) has been removed.

The Explorer thumbnail handler and metadata property handler for.URL files has been removed in Windows Vista. Thumbnails can no longer be forced to regenerate by right-clicking the image and selecting Refresh thumbnail.A hotfix is available (KB2617058) to restore the MoveSecurityAttributes value but not ForceCopyAclwithFile. Even after setting the ForceCopyAclwithFile and MoveSecurityAttributes values as documented in KB310316, permissions are not retained/copied when Windows Explorer is used to copy or move objects across volumes or in the same volume.

In addition, if all items within a folder are selected at once (by pressing Ctrl+ A or Select all), the user is not alerted to hidden files being selected.

If hidden files are not allowed to be shown in Windows Explorer, the Status bar does not report how many hidden files are present.

This removes the ability to locate items by their first letter. When using Group By Name, items are always combined into just a few groups (A-H, I-P, Q-Z).

Grouping items by name in Explorer no longer groups them under each individual letter of the alphabet (A, B, C.

This removes the ability to sync many locations.

Windows Briefcase cannot sync files or folders in locations protected by User Account Control.

Windows Briefcase no longer allows synchronizing items across multiple computers and a removable media device.

The following is a list of features that were present in Windows XP and earlier versions but were removed in Windows Vista. While Windows Vista contains many new features, a number of capabilities and certain programs that were a part of previous Windows versions up to Windows XP were removed or changed – some of which were later re-introduced in Windows 7 and later versions.

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