Vista - printing jpeg gets "Save to XPS file" ???????

Trying to print photos from "My Documents" all of which I was able to print when the same photos were in my XP machine, I get a "SAVE AS Box" with the photo name prefixed with XPS. And can't print it.
My printer is the default printer.
There is no problem with the printer.
If I insert the photo into a word document I can print it.
What has Microsoft done to me, and what the HE/$$ is an xps file and why do we need one?
Displaying my working for years printer is my default printer, and also shown is my XPS printer. Can I delete this XPS printer?
Just what is XPS??????

I assume you are just right-clicking on the file and selecting print, or highlighting it and selecting print from the File menu? You don't get a Wizard when doing it by this method, like you did in XP?

Have you tried opening the image in another app (other than pasting it in a doc) such as the standard Windows Image Gallery and printing from there?

XPS printer gets installed with Office, and is there to help the Office documents know what page size you're dealing with if you don't have any physical printer installed, especially when it comes to preview. You can actually print docs to XPS and they are treated similar to PDFs. Not sure whether you can delete it or not

Hi Cranford,

XPS is Microsoft's own version of a portable document format as the famous PDF from adobe.

Microsoft will give you all sorts of reasons why you need it - adobe will give you all sorts of reasons why you should stick with PDF - truthfully unless you have people that you want to create documents for that specify XPS then PDF has such a hold on the "market" that you probably don't need it - You can if you wish delete the XPS printer if you believe you will never use it.

With your actual printing problem - although you say that the default printer is set to the actual printer that you want it may be that the actual program that you are using to print your images is set to the XPS as default - you may want to check this in the actual applications settings

My problem was trying to print and getting a "Save As" box.
I displayed my printers and deleted the XPS printer. I don't intend to use my new edition of "Office". I'm perfectly happy with my old Office 2000.
I'm an old dog and hard to teach new tricks to.
You folks got me pointed in the right direction, so thank you.