Ran across this post made by Kristan Kenney on his blog over at Windows-Now.  Apparently there is a rather serious bug in Windows explorer.  Well, here’s the contents of his post for easiness sake:

So, I’ve run across what seems to be a very serious bug in Windows Vista and it still exists in Service Pack 1 RC1 (and I really don’t know if this is going to get fixed in SP1 either, although I would hope so).

Can anyone reproduce this? I would love to have some good customer feedback on this one.

1. Click on Start, and then click on Documents.
2. In the Search entry box, type “NOT Shortcut” (without the quotes).
3. Click on the “Save Search” button and save the search query as “Search Test”.

In 9 out of 10 tries, Windows Explorer will stop working and will restart itself after displaying a crash dialog. Seems to be an issue with how the search files are serialized. How the hell did this one get past quality assurance? It occurs in both RTM and SP1.

Thanks!

I can say that I can reproduce the bug here.  And I can also say that this has been bugged with Microsoft, and if the person who examined this bug was unable to repro, they need to learn how to read and/or get their head examined.