Yet another stupid Vista moment

Boss's laptop runs Windows Vista Ultimate. As his background he has one of his photos; which was as easy as finding the photo he wanted right-clicking and using as background. However, for reasons I won't go into, he decided to flatten and move all his photos into one folder. One log off and on later and his desktop is blank, yep Vista didn't bother updating the movement of the photo; okay previous versions of Windows doesn't either so meh. Now it gets fun though.

Let's open up the now flattened folder containing 700+ photos and find the one that he wants as his desktop background; fun. Wait though this should be easy just go to the Desktop and Personalise then read the location of where it's trying to find the original photo. It's never that easy of course, the photo's location was akin to \Users\[Name]\Pictures\[Camera]\[Date]\[Picture Name]; so what? Well in its infinite wisdom Vista only displays up to the "Da" in [Date] on the selection button.

Can you click on it and scroll to the right, don't be daft; if you hover over it does it display a tool tip with the full address, hah yeah right; the browse doesn't start at that folder because the folder no longer exists, nor do you get any additional information from the drop-down box.

So guess what I did? Yep I called up regedit navigated to the top of the Current User tree and did a search for as much of the location as I could see and there it was. Using the name of the file (which hadn't changed) it was a simple matter to locate the current photo. Now would anyone expect a normal user to do that or hell even want a user to do that?