Delete Calibrated Display Profile to Increase Speed of Windows 7 Photo Viewer
Windows 7 allows user calibrates the display through “Display color Calibration” in order to adjust that colors shown on screen so that the colors are represented accurately on the monitor, be it a LCD, OLED or CRT. For example, to fix Windows 7 Photo Gallery yellow tinted display issue. After calibrating the display, Windows 7 will generate an ICC file, named CalibratedDisplayProfile-0.icc.
The ICC profile is a set of data that characterizes a color input or output device, or a color space, according to standards promulgated by the International Color Consortium (ICC). After the CalibratedDisplayProfile-x.icc profile is created, it will be used as the default display colors on Windows 7.
However, some users reported a bug that the Calibrated Display Profile ICC will cause computer processing speed to slow to a crawl when opening and viewing photos, pictures, or images with Windows Photo Viewer.
Thus, in order to fix slow Windows Photo Viewer when browsing photos or pictures problem, just delete the Windows-created Calibrated Display ICC Profile at the following location, and the opening and viewing of photos in the Windows 7 Photo Viewer will become normal again.
%WinDir%\System32\spool\drivers\color\CalibratedDisplayProfile-0.icc
As a workaround to ensure a correct colors display, use the ICC profile which is supplied by graphics card’s or display adapter’s manufacturers instead.
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April 25th, 2010 08:13
Thank you! Worked for me beautifully!
April 20th, 2010 22:59
Amazing thank you!! Noticed this problem last night, and I was thinking, “XP was faster at opening files than this!!”
Super easy fix, just paste “%WinDir%\System32\spool\drivers\color\CalibratedDisplayProfile-0.icc” into your Start Search bar, then right click the file “CalibratedDisplayProfile-0.icc” that comes up (should be the only result), select “Delete”, and instantly, your photos will open much faster!
March 15th, 2010 00:59
It really works!
thanks..
January 24th, 2010 20:56
thank you. i was going crazy about that. i thought i have to reinstall my windows to get off that annoying thing.