Expression Design 4 Crashes Windows Explorer

I installed Microsoft Expression Studio 4 alongside Studio 2. I opened a jpg file, manipulated it by adding text, and attempted to save the .design file. Expression Design 4 crashed before the save finished. No, it’s not a beta version of Studio. Now every time I open my “Documents/Expression/Expression Design” document folder on Windows Vista SP2 with the folder set to the icons view (thumbnails) and start to scroll the window, Windows Explorer stops working and restarts. It appears to only fail on the folder that I was trying to save the .design file into when Expression Design failed. In order to see the contents of the folder, I had to change the folder view to any of the non-thumbnail options, like Details or List.

Unlink height and width scaling in Expression Design

Sometimes the simplest things can be the most aggravating. I wanted to change the width of an object without changing the height, but I wanted to do it by the numbers not the drag handles. Every time I typed in the new width, the height changed proportionately. It took me a while to notice the “unlink” icon in the bottom toolbar between the height and width setter textboxes. Like magic clicking the icon allows independent adjustment of height and width of the selected entity.