I have given
up searching for the answer how to fix my display on my Samsung
SyncMaster 931BW and had to take matters into my own hands.
Nothing seemed to work. After loggin off or puting computer
to sleep my display would get out of whack and gamma would
not load. Screen would be way to bright and colors would be
off as well. Sometimes my adobe gamma profile would load and
sometimes it would not. Removing User Access Control (UAC)
did not solve the problem either, third party software (Spyder2,
EZcolor, and there are others) worked, but I refuse to load
yet another piece of software on my computer.
So, after having gamma set up
in my control panel and my profile saved it should load everytime
my computer starts, right ? wrong. This is not the case in
Vista. To get around this I force the gamma load everytime
my computer starts. I create my own batch file and put it
in startup folder. This is the same folder where gamma loader
sits too.
So, to do this you need to open
your notepad (or any other text editor you use) and put the
following text in it (between ************ only):
***********************
choice /T 2 /C ync /D
y
C:\"Program Files"\"Common Files"\Adobe\Calibration\"Adobe
Gamma Loader.exe"
***********************
Now save the text file as screen.bat on
your desktop. Next copy the screen.bat and paste it in C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start
Menu\Programs\Startup directory. This can also be accessed
by going to start, all programs, right click on startup and
explore all users. Little thing I learned is that you can
not modify files in this directory, you can modify your files
on your desktop for example and copy them into that folder.
What does this batch file do? Choice will make it pause and
wait for your input, don't press anything, simply wait (2
seconds) and it will continue. The reason why I gave it 2
seconds is in to allow vista to do it's own thing and execute
my stuff after. You can try and lower the number to 1 if you
wish. You can also place a shortcut on your desktop to the
batch file and manually execute it (that's double click) in
case something does not work.
Good luck.
This article applies to following files:
Adobe Gamma.cpl, Adobe Gamma
Loader.exe
C:\Windows\System32\spool\drivers\color
AdobeRGB1998.icc
AppleRGB.icc
CIERGB.icc
CoatedFOGRA27.icc
ColorMatchRGB.icc
D50.camp
D65.camp
EuroscaleCoated.icc
EuroscaleUncoated.icc
Graphics.gmmp
JapanColor2001Coated.icc
JapanColor2001Uncoated.icc
JapanColor2002Newspaper.icc
JapanStandard.icc
JapanWebCoated.icc
MainMonitor.icm
MediaSim.gmmp
NTSC1953.icc
PAL_SECAM.icc
pcd4050e.icm
pcd4050k.icm
pcdcnycc.icm
pcdekycc.icm
pcdkoycc.icm
Photo.gmmp
Photoshop4DefaultCMYK.icc
Photoshop5DefaultCMYK.icc
Proofing.gmmp
ProPhoto.icm
SMPTE-C.icc
sRGB Color Space Profile.icm
stdpyccl.icm
UncoatedFOGRA29.icc
USSheetfedCoated.icc
USSheetfedUncoated.icc
USWebCoatedSWOP.icc
USWebUncoated.icc
WebCoatedFOGRA28.icc
WideGamutRGB.icc
wscRGB.cdmp
wsRGB.cdmp
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