X220 jpg color problem

Hello,
Am using X220 Windows 7 for few years with no major problems.
Recently while trying to print jpg files the colors became totally different. It seems to be unrelated to the printer device itself (and actually the picture is displayed with totally wrong colors once going into print mode).
Example: 1/ jpg photo is displayed correctly in Windows Photo Viewer. 2/ In the "print window" the reduced photo will show already in wrong colors. Never mind which printer is chosen. 3/ print itself will be with wrong colors. Same is correct for all printers on the list, incl. pdf printer.
Color management show that the default profile ("Lenovo Thinkpad LCD Monitor, TPLCD.icm") is being used.
I believe it is the same as was used all along when the problem didn't exist.
Note: Windows updates are applied regularly. Also Lenovo's (important) updates were implemented periodically. Thank you in advance for any help.
Gil

Thank you for your answer John!
PDF was created in Illustrator CS3(not by me)
I imported PDF to Photoshop and save as a JPG(using option save for web),(I have sRGB option unselect)
I tried viewing file as CYMK, RGB...not difference at all after saving as JPG, still there is color difference....
In Photoshop CS3 I have color setting:
After your advice
I re-saved PDF with new settings as you said, the result is better but still colors are a bit different.
Thank you.

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