Windows 7 keeps ignoring my colour profile

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I'm currently running W7 Premium 64 bit and using a GMB Eye-One to profile my Dell 2007WFP monitor.

Having finally managed to install the hardware, the monitor profiles fine and the Eye-One software puts the colour profile in the correct Windows directory.

Some days after this W7 starts ignoring the profile - it's still in the correct folder but the monitor appears as it would before adjustment. The only way I've been able to sort this is to reprofile the monitor - sod doing that several times a week :razz:

Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this problem?
 
Anyone? Google usually helps me sort problems like this but I'm having trouble pinning this one down.

It now appears that the profile is ignored as soon as the machine is restarted.. I've tried disabling my firewall incase that was preventing the colour profile loading, but that seems to have made no difference.

Really want to edit some photos but there's no way I'm reprofiling the monitor every time I restart the machine..
 
could try ringing microsoft, other than that off the top of my head run whatever software it is in compatibility mode?

and have you tried setting the profile in display manager's advanced bit rather than using eye one?
 
Thanks for the reply :)

Tbh I was getting that desparate I was considering contacting Microsoft, for the first time ever..

I don't think compatability mode would help much as once the profile's generated it resides within Windows, so there's nothing that needs to be made compatable.

I've checked the profile in the colour management bit of windows; everything is there as it should be (to my inexperienced eyes, anyway).

After a bit more google bashing I found reference to a similar problem with vista here. It's highly likely that sleep mode has killed my profile too.. I've downloaded the app that's linked to which seems like a decent workaround for the problem.

Will try forcing the problem by instigating sleep mode to see if that's really the cause, then take it from there.

Cheers ;)
 
BrownWarrior said:
did you discover anything?
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Unfortunately not really; tried rebooting with the firewall off and the problem persisted. Oddly, when I got home last night the PC recognised the colour profile after booting, yet today when I turned it on it looked distinctly un-profiled. I'm very confused.

The workaround that I linked to in my previous post worked perfectly, but something's not right somewhere.

I think this installation of W7 was tagged onto the back of the existing Vista installation (IIRC it was done from Windows rather than bootup, and some information was retained) so it might be worth doing a fresh install, although I don't relish the idea of setting it all up / installing everything again as it seems to get more difficult and convoluted with every new iteration of the operating system :thumbsdown:

Tbh if I could do it for nowt I'd consider going backwards to XP 64 - other than the small improvements in user interface and various gimmicks, I've benefitted little from W7 and I still bitterly resent some of the interfering, nannying controls and notifications that remain from Vista...

Are you having similar problems?
 
Cheers Chaz - as mentioned above I've got a similar program to yours that I downloaded from here, although it's not currently in my calibration tools folder.

I'm still trying to pin down exactly what's causing the OS to ignore the profile as it's slept recently as well as being restarted several times, and the profile is still in full effect. However, it did lose it again the other day and nothing has apparently changed.

The thought of a full, clean reinstall is looking more appealing at the moment, as I've got several other issues too..
 
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