Friend unable to save photo sent from iPhoto

This is weird but maybe one of you have encountered it. A friend who has Windows XP :>( can view photos I send from iPhoto but she apparently can't SAVE them. It may be a problem peculiar to her machine. I tried attaching one directly to e-mail but it's way too big. I tried using the FILE/EXPORT method, resizing to half size which worked on my end and am waiting to hear if she could save it.
Anyone have any ideas?

I sent out a plea for help to knowledgeable people in my e-mail address book (amazing how few but then - I don't count myself as knowledgeable).
Apparently this is an actual problem - but it’s erratic. One person e-mailed the following:
“Well, I saved this into my file folder on my pc...then I opened it and it was there. Then I copied it and put it into this e-mail to send to you.”
Another person - who was manager of a Windows Forum that I belonged to and very knowledgeable sent the following:
“It would not open in Internet Explorer.
I tried it again using Irfanview (http://www.irfanview.com/).
Right click>copy>paste in Irfanview>save as....it worked. Irfanview is a free photo editing software.
It does work in Paint. Right click copy>paste in Paint>save as a Jpeg”
So the problem is solved - by outsiders without a Mac - LOL. I should have thought of Irfanview - I do have it - via Boot Camp on my Mac- and on my old PC which is not connected to the internet. I wish Irf had a Mac version - it isn’t a highly sophisticated photo editing program but it can open files that no other programs can & is spot on when it comes to resizing.
My friend has responded:
“Hi: Well I downloaded Irfanview and low and behold, it worked. I now have your picture as my screensaver. Thanks for all the help! Looks like something I should keep in mind when I have other files or whatever I can't open.”

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