Windows 7 Monitor Calibration
Lets get right down to it I own a PC. Why, because I love to overclock my i7 860 to 3.8 ghz and something about changing vcore (voltage to the core of the i7 860) really gets me excited. I think it rather parallels photography with the technical aspects but I digress, let me get to the topic of it all. Windows 7 is a huge step forward for us PC enthusiasts and it reduced the time of monitor calibration in half. How does it do this. I use the Xrite to profile my monitor. Firstly I am able to drag the gamma loader from the CD or download it from the website (it is now obsoleted software) to the startup folder under the start menu on the left side. After rebooting it automatically comes up and pulls the profile set in Windows color management in the control panel and uses that against whatever video card you may have. This was all done at the time of monitor calibration by the software. Now there are some loading issues with gamma software and Windows 7 however it is only a minor inconvenience. When Windows 7 loads the software if it is loaded before a certain time the gamma loader fails to pull the correct profile from the “C:windows/System32/spool/drivers/color” folder. To fix this you can load whatever gamma loading software the profiler may use or you can a startup delayer that can be found on the internet( please scan for viruses). I ended up going to start and then the startup tab and loading the gamma loader again and you then should notice the profile kick in. Make sure however to select the profile created in the color management section under control panel and then reboot to make sure the .icc profile was correctly implemented. Well I hope this somewhat helps and I am really tempted to create a vista set of instructions as it is somewhat more complicated and time-consuming but we shall only see.
