Display Color Calibration

When I run the Display Color Calibration to alter the gamma cos it is too bright for me, It resets after any reboot or shutdown is there any way to keep the adjusted setting after shutdown/reboot ?

Andy

Hi Andy,

Have a look here http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/5823-display-color-calibration.html to see if anything there helps.

it's generally better to make hardware do the job - can you not make the adjustments on your monitor?

mickey megabyte
it's generally better to make hardware do the job - can you not make the adjustments on your monitor?

Yes but not the gamma which all i want to turn down a bit.
Dwarf
cheers that is what i'm doing but after say a reboot they seem to reset and i got to do em again etc. etc.

i can't get em to stay at the settings i want.

Andy

Hi Andy,

I think I know what the problem is. You are adjusting the profile correctly, and are using the adjusted profile in your current session. However, when you reboot, the settings are apparently gone and you are then using the default settings. If you read further down the Tutorial thread (the posts immediately following the Tutorial), you will find instructions on changing the profiles so that it is your settings that gets loaded instead of the default.

Thanks for that i'll give it a go

Andy

I'm having exactly the same problem on my Toshiba NB-205 mini netbook. Every time I reboot or hibernate the gamma shoots right back to the original setting, which makes everything far too bright. I REALLY appreciate the color calibrator in W7, so I'm hugely disappointed that it's not working.

I tried to fix it by selecting "use my settings for this device" in color management, but that didn't fix it.

Interestingly, when I hibernated and brought the computer back on while the color management page was open, I got this error message: "The devices page has been refreshed due to a hardware change". Following that I got a similar message stating that the color management had been refreshed because of the hardware change. Google turns up nothing on this.

What could the issue be? Why does it think I've changed hardware just because of a hibernation?

Help is greatly appreciated.

I was having the same problem. On startup my Vaio laptop display had a red hue. I would change this by going into Intel Graphics Media Accelorator properties and tweak the settings. However on Startup it would still revert to the reddy hue display.

I then used the windows calibration tool. But I would end up with an error message: "The devices page has been refreshed due to a hardware change"

I also reinstalled the drivers yet this had no effect.

In the end I did manage to fix this problem by doing the following:

CONTROL PANEL > HARDWARE AND SOUND > DEVICES AND PRINTERS

double clicking my VAIO Laptop opened up the VAIO control center.

DISPLAY> COLOUR MODE SETTING

Deselecting "Change to optimal color mode automatically"

then

Select : "Select from following color modes:"

Select: "Do not apply color mode"

This fix worked for me.

I have the same exact problem where the display color calibration resets everytime after a reboot or going into sleep. I have tried changing my color profile as the ""use my settings for this device" default setting, but it still resets after a reboot/sleep. Has anyone found a solution to this problem?

Lenovo T400

I am relieved to say I have just found the answer to this....

start > run > msconfig > startup > uncheck igfxpers.exe

I had exactly the same problem. In my case problem was caused by "NVIDIA Display Driver Service", I just unchecked it using "msconfig" and problem solved. This service actually has nothing to do with video card primary functions, just some maintenance junk.

Hardware vs software

Seems like on my HP d7 the hardware color tuner always ultimately overrides any settings on windows. I spent hours trying to get the windows settings to stick until I finally realized windows was powerless to stop HP from overriding with its own settings every time the computer when to sleep or was restarted.

Here's what I did as a fix for my HP, I'm sure most computers have something similar:

Hey everyone, this was beyond frustrating to me. I'm a photographer and I couldn't edit my photos properly for a long time.

Here's the fix I found:

- Don't use the Windows Calibration. I think HP is just ocnstantly overriding it on the hardwar ke end.
- Go to your desktop, right click, select "Graphics Properties" and go to Color Enhancement. Spend some time tweaking. It's not easy to use. Pull up lots of familiar images to test different settings on. You can use the gray bars in the windows color tuner for reference.

When teh computer sleeps or restarts or whatever, the HP color profile will always be used as the default.

Couldn't find a way to make windwos the default.

Not sure how helpful this is if you use a professional color tuner...

Hope this helps.

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