Vista - Photo Gallery Problem - Saving

I have been looking for any information anyone may have on the following
error message:

"Changes to this picture can not be saved because Photo Gallery has
experienced a problem"

This happens after opening any picture in Windows Photo Gallery, making any
changes (crop, reduce red eye etc) then letting it "auto-save" (as there is
no save option). It's almost as if the pictures are read only (I have checked
- they're not).

I'm completely puzzled and don't know what else to try. Could this be a
hardware issue?

"deltaflyer13" <deltaflyer13@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:4A13A350-8BE6-42A7-8F0B-D6F48366DB3E@xxxxxx

I've had a similar problem. I solved my problem by shutting
off an unnecessary process that Vista started automatically.
The culprit seems to be Windows Media Player Network Sharing
Service. Try this:

1. Open Task Manager by right-clicking on the taskbar on
the bottom of your screen and choosing Task Manager from
the menu.

2. Click on the Processes Tab along the top of the Task
Manager screen.

3. In the Processes Tab, find the button in the lower left
of the screen that says "Show processes from all users"
and click it. Click "Continue" at the UAC prompt that
comes up.

4. The screen should go dark for a moment, then return with
many more processes listed. Click on the column "Command
Line" to sort the list and look for:

"C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmpnetwk.exe"

The description in the next column over will read:

Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service


5. Click to select this process. Then click the "End
Process" button in the lower right of the screen.
Confirm "End Process" as necessary.


You should now be able to save your changes to your pictures
normally. The bad news is that this has to be done each
time you start or restart Vista. And I don't know how to
prevent the situation from loading in the first place.

Sorry, but this is the best I can offer.


--
Steve Furse