Solved Color profiles calibration?

[badspell68]

I'm setting up a new install of Win 7 Professional, the screen was a little pink, so I color calibrated. But when I re-boot it jumps back to the pink profile just after re-booting. How do I save the calibration after adjusting and how do I get it to stick? I've never used color calibration before and can't really make any sense of it...

 

[Brink]

Hello Badspell,

You might give the method used in the tutorial below to see if it may work for you as well. There also similar issues of this within the thread that may help as well.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/5823-display-color-calibration.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[badspell68]

WOW...I'm going a bit NUTS! It will calibrate, but whenever I log out or restart it re-sets to the pink looking calibration?

 

[Brink]

Be sure to read through the posts in that thread for similar issues on this to see if they may be able to help as well. Here's one example that may hopefully do so.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/5823-display-color-calibration-post1263347.html

 

[juanantoniod]

For what it is worth, you cannot accurrately color calibrate a color display without the use of an external device which measures the LAB values emitting from the display and calibrates them with a known value. These include devices such as the Color Munki. As well, in order to properly see color, you must not have interference from other color temperatures, such as the lighting or color of paint on the walls around you. A solution to this is to paint your work area with spectrically neutral grey paint, and/or using the appropriate color temperature of lighting.

 

[badspell68]

It seems to be a bug on "SOME" Win 7 machines...here is the info, but it does not seem to fix the problem on my Vaio. Anyone have input?

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Steve Glossop , Oct 02, 2010; 04:12 a.m. I had exactly the same problem with my Win 7 64 bit system - There's actually two places that you need to set the default icc profile - if you don't set it as system default as well it keeps losing your profile setting - I eventually found this on the web that fixed it for me:
1. ASSOCIATE YOUR PROFILES WITH A DISPLAY AND SET AS DEFAULT
To apply an existing ICC profile (an ICM file created by some calibration process), do the following -

Control Panel / Display / Change Display Settings / Advanced Settings / Color Management / Color Management (again!) / Devices / select one of your displays*1 / click "use my settings for this device"*2/ if necessary add the applicable profile to the "Profiles associated with this device" box using the "Add" button (if your profile is not already listed but is available somewhere on the network or computer) / click on the correct profile in that box and click "Set as Default Profile".

*1 the CM dialog boxes don't label your displays the same way as other dialog boxes, they seem to lose the manufacturer and model number info that is available elsewhere, so your ABC model nn display comes up as Display: 1. Generic PnP monitor . Also note that at least on my system, display '1' was in fact display '2' in other display settings dialog boxes, and vice versa.

*2 You would think that selecting "Use my settings for this device" would mean the Windows would use your settings for that device (display), but apparently it doesn't. It means ... well, I don't know what it means. Perhaps it means if you don't select it, even the next step (below) won't help you.

Good work so far - tortuous and unnecessarily complex - but has a certain logic. Unfortunately it doesn't achieve anything at all, until you work out the secret key. Although it seems the above should do what you want, you have to do something which is entirely unobvious, and not mentioned at all in any of the help general discussion, and apparently not known by any of the 67 people who read my question. It is actually listed in the MS help section... at the very bottom of "Understanding color management settings" and after a mass of largely incomprehensible stuff which doesn't appear to be relevant, there is a link which is not listed in the contents at the top and almost impossible to notice... To enable or disable calibration loading by Windows

2. ENABLE CALIBRATION LOADING BY WINDOWS

Here's the hidden bit of help file...
To enable or disable calibration loading by Windows , you must be logged on with a user account that has administrative privileges.

1. Click to open Color Management.
2. Click the Advanced tab, and click Change system defaults .
3. Click the Advanced tab in the Color Management - System Defaults dialog box, and do one of the following:
   • To enable Windows to load display calibrations, select the Use Windows display calibration check box.
   • To prevent Windows from loading display calibrations, clear the Use Windows display calibration check box.
4. Click Close in the Color Management - System Defaults dialog box.
5. Click Close in the Color Management dialog box.

Hope this helps.

 

[Brink]

Badspell,

Did you ever get your administrator rights issue in your thread below sorted? It may be related. From my experience with this color management issue resetting, you have to set them while elevated for them to stick. Are you getting a UAC prompt while doing the calibration?

http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/162446-admin-rights.html

 

[badspell68]

NO UAC prompt and my user rights are administrator. I had a brief issue when installing VLC, it was asking for an actual user named Administrator and the associated password.

Still can't seem to work through the color problem...Ugh!

 

[sygnus21]

- Are you using some type of color calibrating program?
- Which one?
- Have you created a color profile?

 

[badspell68]

I suspect this is the problem: Whenever I un-check "Enable Application settings Overide" it re-check itself after a re-boot or log-off???

 

[badspell68]

No calibration software other then the Win 7 one and I think I am saving the profile, but have to admit that I am not at all familiar with the color calibration included in Win 7.

 

[Brink]

Badspell,

If this is with a desktop monitor, you might see if you may be able to adjust the monitor's color settings directly on the monitor itself instead.

 

[sygnus21]

I suspect this is the problem: Whenever I un-check "Enable Application settings Overide" it re-check itself after a re-boot or log-off???

Yeah it seems it is overriding Windows.

No calibration software other then the Win 7 one and I think I am saving the profile, but have to admit that I am not at all familiar with the color calibration included in Win 7.

Yeah it is a bit wonky but you need to either choose or create a profile if you want Windows to use it. The tutorial Brink listed should work - provided you can get Intel to stop overriding the system. Have you checked the help files associated with the program?

 

[badspell68]

FYI
Found the solution to the problem...for anyone struggling with the same problem on a Sony Vaio.
My Vaio"VGN-NW240F" Has a proprietary Sony service that conflicts with the display driver and does not allow the display driver to save settings permanently...they will reset on log-off or re-boot producing a very pink looking hue. Disable "Vaio Event Service" and then the problem will be resolved. The side affect is you loose function keys that dim and brighten the display, but a simple desktop gadget can then be used to replace the keys.

The service is = "Vaio Event Service"

 

[Brink]

Thank you Badspell for posting back with your results and solution. I have added this as a note in the tutorial so that it may help others with the same issue.

 

[sygnus21]

Yeah thanks for the update.

Happy to hear you got it sorted.

Peace

 

[pgpuro]

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