Here's an interesting Windows bug. Can others repro this?

Can anyone else repro this?

In Windows Vista, do either one of the following:

start/run, CONTROL USERPASSWORDS2, Advanced, Manage Passwords.
-or-
start, control panel, user accounts, user accounts, Manage Your Network Passwords.

Either way, you'll get the "Stored User Names and Passwords" dialog box.

Press "BACK UP".

It will prompt you for a file location to store the .CRD file. Browse to a desired location and enter a desired file name.

Press NEXT.

It will prompt you to press ctrl-alt-del to save the passwords.

At this point, it supposed to save a file where you told it to. On my system, when I press ctrl-alt-del, the dialog box just goes poof and no file gets saved.

Anyone else get the same thing?

I don't have Vista handy (banished it once 7 came out), but it works fine for me both locally and via RDP in 7. When I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, the desktop goes black, and a dialog is up asking for a password to encrypt the file.

Works here but I'm on Windows 7. I'd assume that there is something going on with your install since not being able to backup the vault is something that I'd hope would be found in QA...

My feelings exactly.

Tried it, it worked fine. Vista Ultimate in Bootcamp.

Thanks, all. I'm retiring that user profile on the machine, I think it's something corrupted about that user profile. It's just another symptom that something is wrong with it. Already the profile was loading exceedingly slowly and had grown to excessive proportions, and in fact I wanted to back up the passwords just so I could use them on the new profile. Ah well, I'll just type them all in again. (There were many many dozens, maybe that was the problem to begin with.)

By the way, regarding user profiles... Note to all programmers everywhere: Placing your CACHE and BACKUP files in the user profile folder is a bad bad idea for corporate users whose user profiles must synch to a file server over a network.

You'd think only rookies would make that mistake. Rookies like Google Earth? Microsoft Virtual Earth? iTunes? Gr. The user profile folder was 5 gigs.

Roaming or home-brew? The %LocalAppData% folder is fair game for that kind of thing. %AppData% is not.