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When I used Windows, every time I updated my video driver, Windows Photo Viewer returned to the days of old-fashioned, sepia-toned photos. I'll show you how to fix this problem. Note: This post is from , but people have reported that this works for Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8. Note: OptimWise does not provide IT support. This post is for information only. If you need help beyond this post, please contact your IT service provider, or ask us for an introduction to an IT service provider.
If these steps don't work for you, here are a few additional steps to try, based on comments from others who have read this post. Instead of deleting your monitor's profile, you can make the new profile your default. On a two-monitor setup you'll need to do the same for both monitors. If you have 2 monitors you have to do this process for both monitors.
Actually, you may just have to do the dominant or main monitor. You can also try to save new profile after changes mentioned in this article. Close the Color Management dialog box and then restart the computer to apply the setting.
Source: mydigitallife. I found the yellow tint problem after updating the driver for my graphics card, and couldn't work out why it had happened. This worked first time. Cheers mate! This worked, however I am wondering what the impact is of deleting the profile I previously had or rather, that my new monitors software set up for me and choosing this version in it's stead.
Will it have any impact besides just the preview option? Will it affect my games? My graphic design work? My video editing? Since the profiles control how colors are displayed, yes, a different color profile could affect how your games and other programs appear on your computer. If you have color profiles that you need for specific programs, you'd want to be careful about removing or deleting them.
I wish I could give more details, but this is as much as I know about color profiles in Windows. I had this problem, found a solution online, and posted it to help others. Have you tried this fix. Does it work? I just spent 2 hours with Dell on the phone and they couldn't fix it.
When they adjusted the profile don't think they used the same ICC profile that's here it messed up how I viewed My Documents and my emails it made the lettering splotchy - like if I typed a word the letters in the word were unevenly colored - parts of them seemed to be faded. I'm assuming if I don't delete my monitors profile I can easily go back? Pam, several people have tried this fix since I posted it in see the comments. If Dell couldn't help, I suggest contacting an IT professional. Hi Francisco, you probably figured it out by now but for anyone that comes across this more recently, this didn't work for me initially either.
Actually, you may just have to do the dominant or main monitor and my 2 monitor is on my left. Once I did the same process to the other monitor, it worked! It worked. I had AOC monitor color profiles added with its drivers.
Reverted back to sRGB profile as you said. Feared I had somehow taken precious Yellowstone pictures in sepia tone, did a search and found this - Thanks! And when I updated Windows 8 to Windows 8. I'm glad to hear this post was useful more than once. It'll be here if you need it in the future. Great help, yellow tint was a pain as I had to open all images in Paint. This helps a lot, thanks. Thank you - you showed me how to get rid of the colour cast in Windows photo viewer. Very easy to follow.
Works perfectly!!! Thanks a lot. The way you described didn't exactly work out for me, however entering Advanced - Change system Defaults, and deleting the profile from 'All Profiles' worked, deleting the monitor profile should force SRGB for all users on the machine.
I have been searching and searching for a solution online for this issue and finally it was resolved with your help , thank you very much. Thanks so much - I work with images for my job every day and this was a big complaint for me on a brand new computer Wish I know why it was like that, but oh well, it's fixed! Thank you so much for posting this. I hated that yellow tint. Yours was the first site I looked at to solve this problem and I am pleased I got results in one stop.
You're welcome, Damien. I'm glad you found this post right away and didn't need to spend time searching. Hi all, if someone facing that this didn't work Samsung , try click on profiles button and set combine my profile with default setting.
I'm not using second panel and running on Win 8. I have a Dell computer. Thank you so much! This one thing fixed both! I just upgraded my PC to Windows 7 and this was happening.
Thanks for the fix!! Note: If you have dual monitors, you have to set the profile for both! Many, Many thanks!! Why I did not search for this cure before? I do a lot of screen saves and view in the viewer and it displays the ugly tan color. No more!!! Thank you so much for your help!! Hi, I have a Dell U monitor with a strong yellow tint and I am trying to figure out whether I can solve the problem without replacing it.
I don't understand whether the problem you describe only affects a specific software Windows Photo Viewer or everything. In my case, everything is yellowish, especially light-blue areas like the default background of tabs in Chrome. Would this fix solve it? I would just try it, but unfortunately I can't do it so easily as I haven't got yet all the parts of the computer that I will use the monitor with, I made a test with a laptop that a friend brought but now he's gone Fabio, this fix should affect more than just Windows Photo Viewer, since the profiles control how colors are displayed in Windows.
If you look through the comments on this post, you'll see that others have reported this fixing other programs too. Hi Chad, thanks for your answer. You are right, but what got me confused is that another user said that without your fix he had to open pictures in Paint. I wonder how that could be a solution if the problem is related to Windows and not just to the Photo Viewer.
Also, your example pictures show the problem very clearly in the wallpaper, but it's hard to tell whether the interface is also affected. I just bought 2 new, 20 inch, AOC dual monitor setup for my Windows 10 desktop and the yellow tint on Windows Photo Viewer was driving me nuts!
It was only on Photo Viewer, which made absolutely no sense to me, so you can add Windows 10 to the list of OS that this trick works for! You're welcome, Noah. I updated the post to say that it works for Windows Thanks for reporting that. Weird it never happened in my Dell monitor though.
The tricks shown in the above article works. Works like a charm even on Windows Never seen this problem before, and was very pleased when I found this fix. Thanks for the tip. Andre, others have reported that it worked for them on Win 7. If you haven't already, read through the comments to see if there's another step you can try. A few others have needed to take an additional step, then it worked.
This is the working method for this machine! I have Windows 10 rig. You have solved it! Thank you, bro.
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