Windows 7: Windows Photo Viewer Background Yellow Color-Fix

Same problem with my New Dell U2410. The colors were WAY, WAY off. I'd open the same photo with quicktime viewer, and windows photo viewer and the colors were Terrible in Windows photo viewer, Yellowish Green Tint.. and colors were dark and not Vibrant.. I have a 24" IPS Panel, wide gamut amazing color display with the most vivid pictures I've ever seen.. but not in Windows Photo Viewer.

I just went back to the sRGB profile and wow did it make a difference. I now have great colors.

thanks for the easy fix. Another problem solved by SF.

You're the man. Hated the white backgrind too.

Before I found you're fix, I found faststone's viewer (a total joy to use).

I only use W's Photo Viewer ever so rarely, and only when I sometimes use my pc's printscreen (which defaults to using W's PV).

I thank swarfega, Because his tips works for me.
You are a genious ! How do you do that ?

Man that was Just crazy, Though of looking into changing the BG colow from Yellow - made my eyes go insane, But you did it man, Many many thanks. Going too REP U KNOW.......

JosephKarman,

Thank you very very much! The white background has been bugging me something rotten.

Weng Lim

Thanks for the help... I had the same issue with my Samsung SyncMaster 2494

ie. not the problem or bug.The problem is with your monitor drivers.Update your monitor drivers from your monitor website or use windows update to check for the appropriate drivers...

Problem Solved...

The posted solution did not work for me, but I found:

Window 7 Photo Viewer shows pictures with orange and yellow tint. - Microsoft Answers

which worked...

This issued happened to me today - yellow suddenly became the background color for Windows Photo Viewer on 3 of my 6 monitors...(got the yellow B/G when opening or dragging Photo Viewer to my 3 AOC 2243W 22" monitors but not on the 3 AOC 2450W 24" monitors)

Funny how the Device: drop-down list has Display:1. and Display:4. listed as "Generic Non-PNP" but the 4 other monitors were correctly identified by manufacturer and model number.

The solution suggested by Jag and swarfega fixed it for me...Thx