Low colors in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer

Yeah it's pretty hard to see on here... haha, however some of them can get so bad that at first I thought there was something wrong with my lens or camera... until I opened it in Paint. And as far as I know the drivers are up to date... however, I'm planning to get a new video card soon so maybe that will take care of it.

Here is a really good example... notice the greenish hue above the dust from the sun in the right picture?


I'm a storm chaser so this is a real annoyance when you don't have the right colors showing up, haha.

Office Picture Viewer, Quicktime Picture Viewer, Media Center, and even IE all display it correctly.

it could be a faulty monitor profile.

windows update gave me one once for my samsung monitor, and it affected the colours when viewed in windows picture viewer.

you can try 'uninstalling' your monitor from device manager, or type color in your start-menu search-box and have a look at your color management settings.

try setting things to default, and see what happens.

it worked for me, good luck. :)

it may not make any sense to you, but that doesn't mean it's nonsense.

an old screenshot taken when i had my problem: on the left, photoshop. on the right windows photo viewer.

the op may not have the same problem, but i thought it was worth mentioning.