There might be a conflict with your AV or security suite.

Which firewall, anti-virus, anti-spyware or security suite is installed?
There are some that cause problems which don’t always appear immediately.

As a workaround you can use the Snipping Tool to capture the photo.

See: Use Snipping Tool to capture screen shots.
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...605b41033.mspx


"BwanaE" <BwanaE@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> While on EBay or other classified ad websites when I see an interesting
> item,
> I used to right click on the photo and "save as" to my pictures file.
> Worked
> great on my last laptop with Win. XP. New Sony laptop with Vista...no luck
> at
> all. In Windows photo gallery the saved photos appear as generic
> thumbnails.
> When placing the cursor over the generic thumbnail the appropriate
> properties
> info appears, date, size, jpg, etc, but when double clicked they will not
> open. Tried opening with other programs Office picture manager, Paint,
> Vaio
> content viewer, etc...no luck.
> I'd appreciate very much any ideas / solutions. Eric.