Application change when printing from Windows Mail

[Citizen of the World]

When I print an email (or anything) when in Windows Mail, my system instantly
switches to another open application. It's as if I pressed "alt+tab" at the
same time as selecting "print." I don't know how to stop this switching and
stay inside Windows Mail.

This only happens when I print from Windows Mail. Printing in Firefox or
Word 2007 causes no such problem.

Does anyone have a fix for this annoyance? Thanks.

 

[sherbert]

In that case until the problem can be sorted, why don't you copy and paste
the emails into a word document and then print?

 

[Citizen of the World]

While that alternative would stop the unplanned application switching from
happening, it would take as much effort to cut/paste/print from Word as to
switch back to Windows Mail. Hopefully, I can find a way to keep the
application switching from occurring. Any ideas as to why this is happening?
Thanks.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Is the other app it switches to always IE?
Like OE before it, Windows Mail uses IE's print engine for printing.

 

[Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM]

No. I get this, too, and it seems to switch to the last opened window.
Printing is not the only thing that will do this and so far I haven't found
a fix besides the obvious manual one.