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.

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.