I double click on a 200 Kb Jpeg I have saved to my hard drive. Windows picture and Fax Viewer opens up and I see my photo. I click the "diskette" icon (copy to) and save as jpeg to my desktop (or wherever). The 200 Kb Jpeg I copied is now 400 or 500 Kb on my desktop. Why? If I right click on the same original Jpeg and "send to" My documents, I find the original Jpeg saved in My documents in it's original 200 Kb file. Jimi.

The software you are using is saving the file at a higher quality than before. This doesn't mean that the file's quality increases, obviously. It just means that more information is being used. Sort of like saving a JPEG as a BMP. Same picture, more information. Get a piece of software that allows you to nominate the quality you want when you save. Photoshop for example lets me choose between 1 and 12 for quality when i save.

Scott, I'm not sure I understand. The software I'm using is Windows Picture and Fax Viewer, which is part of the operating system. Are you saying that XP is simply using one of my photo editing programs to accomplish the task of "copy?" If that was true than I should be able to go in to the particular software program (I have six photo editing programs on my computer and use Adobe Photoshop 7.0 for complex editing) and reset the quality scale? I've tried that with no success. However I don't think Windows Picure and Fax Viewer uses any software except the software that is in the operating system. Am I wrong? I have none of my additional photo editing programs set to default because I use so many of them. Windows Picture viewer worked normally before I ever purchased any additional software programs. Jimi.

If all you're doing is moving the file from the hard disk to the floppy disk, do it using windows explorer. There's no need to open it, and then save it somewhere else. You're trying too hard, man.

To copy a picture or any file to a floppy drive, find the file using Windows Explorer, right click on the file name, then pick "Send to" and then "3 1/2 Floppy". There's no reason to open the file. If you need to see the pictures before deciding which one(s) to move, then, from Windows Explorer, choose "View" and then "Thumbnails" and you'll see each picture as a thumbnail sketch.

Jamie, Had the same problem, like Scott said, it's like it's being saved as BMP instead of a JPG. In fact on my box it would actually rename it's extension to BMP! This can happen if you get a corrupt active x script in your temporary internet files directory. I deleted everthing in that folder and everything went back to normal. Hope it works for you too. <fingers crossed> Bizarre indeed! <lol>? ciao, wired

Deputy DooDah, No, I'm not trying to hard, I'm just trying to make a specific feature work. I didn't say I was trying to save to a floppy, I said I was trying to copy through windows picture and fax viewer. You double click on a jpeg and the picture viewer opens up. Look at the icons on the bottom of the viewer. It's the icon to the right of the printer icon. The icon (to me) resembles a floppy. Hover over it and it and is says "copy to (control + S)." That's the one I'm talking about. When you click on it you have options of saving the copy anywhere you want through "copy to" function. Then when I Save to desktop (or wherever) through the "save in" feature, then save as jpeg, I go to the desktop and the jpeg has doubled or tripled in file size. I realize there are a thousand ways to do something in XP, I just like to use this procedure, as I have been doing for years, and now it doesn't work. Understand? (You're not trying hard enough man). Ha! Jimi.