MS Windows Me and 98: C:\Windows\System\Color
MS Windows NT: C:\Winnt\system32\spool\drivers\color
MS Window 2000, XP, Vista and 7: C:\Windows\system32\spool\drivers\color
An alternative to using dispwin
-I
to install your display profiles,
is to use the Display
Property dialog, advanced settings, Color management tab, and
locate
the profile and install it there. This in
itself does not cause the profile to be made use of anywhere in
your
system.
If you are using Adobe Photoshop on your system, then you can
tell
it to use your monitor profile by editing the appropriate registry
key,
typically "My
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Color\Monitor\Monitor0",
to
contain the name of the display profile, and then restart
Photoshop
This is the simplest way of ensuring that the Adobe calibration
loader
tool Adobe Gamma loads the video hardware lookup tables from the
vcgt tag, and
uses the profile as its display profile.
The adobe gamma tool can be told to use your profile, but the
procedure is slightly tricky: Open adobe gamma from photoshop (in
the
Help->Color Management... menu item), select "Open Adobe
Gamma", and
select the "Load.." button. Select your profile and "Open". Select
"OK"
in the Adobe Gamma, it will then ask you to save it's modified
version
of your profile under a different name. Chose a name for the
modified
profile, and save it. Exit from Photoshop. Copy the profile you
want to
use, over the modified profile that you saved in Adobe Gamma. (If
you
don't do the last step, the profile Photoshop will be using will
have
been modified in strange ways from what you intended.)
Installing a profile on Microsoft Windows generally doesn't mean
that the profiles calibration will be automatically loaded into a
display on startup. A separated tool is usually needed to achiev
this.
Some Microsoft Windows applications may come with
"Gamma/VCGT/RAMDAC/Video LUT"
loader tools, consult their documentation and check your Start
Menu
Startup folders. If you don't want to use any of these 3rd party
tools, you can also use the dispwin
tool to do this for you, as it takes either a .cal or ICC
file
as an argument. The xcalib
tool could also be used.
To add a startup item that will load a profiles calibration into
the
display using dispwin,
use the
following
instructions:
On the task bar, right click and
select
"Properties", then select the "Advanced" tab, then click "Add..".
then
browse till you locate dispwin.exe. In the box containing the path
to
dispwin.exe, add a space
then
the option -L, eg:
c:\bin\argyll\dispwin -L
If you don't want to use the default installed profile, you could explicitly set the calibration file to use as an argument:
c:\bin\argyll\dispwin
c:\myprofiles\mydisplay.icm
Click "Next >", select the
"Startup"
folder, then name the item (ie.
"Argyll Calibration Loader"), then press "Finish".
You can test it out by simply navigating the "Start" menu to the
"Startup" folder and selecting the item you've just created. If
you
want to alter any of the details, navigate to the item again and
right
click it, and select "Properties". More than one startup item can
be
created to set the calibration for more than one display. You may
want
to cut and paste the "Target" line to a normal Command Prompt
shell to
check that it works as expected, as it is impossible to catch
error
messages in the startup.