Windows Vista Photo Gallery Yellow Tint Background Problem
Windows Photo Gallery is a photo management, image tagging and editing tool that comes free with Windows Vista. Windows Photo Gallery is the default association program in Vista that is configured to handle and associated with a few picture file formats and extensions, such as .bmp Bitmap Image, ico Icon, .jfif, .jpe, .jpeg, .jpg, JPEG Image, .PNG PNG Image, .tif, .tiff TIFF Image, and .wdp Windows Media Photo, and you can set the program as the default program for more image file types.
When displaying and viewing photos in Windows Photo Gallery of Vista, some monitors or LCD flat panel displays may have a strange problem in which the images will be shown with a orange or yellowish tinge in photos’ background, affecting the display natural color of pictures to become something like Sepia effect. The entire window on WPG appears to be colored in slightly yellowish tint, and is therefore appear darker, including the panels on either side of the photo display which which appear yellow on the desktop but are white in actual.The yellow tinted photos may also affect other default image viewer in Windows Vista. In some case, the yellow tinge problem goes away when the photos are viewed in slideshow mode, or in some other image manipulation tool such as Adobe Photoshop, Paint or Paint.NET or photo management utility such as Google Picasa.
The symptom is likely to occur after update of incompatible monitor driver, especially on Samsung LCD flat panel monitor driver update via Windows Update. The cause for the error is the usage of incorrect color profile for the monitor in Color Management setting.
To solve the problem and restore normal colors in Windows Photo Gallery, you can try one of the resolutions below. All actions will be done at Color Management tab, which is accessible by right click on Desktop, and select Personalize on the contextual menu. Click on Display Settings link in the Personalization menu. In the Display Settings window, click on Advanced Settings… button. Then click on Color Management tab, and finally click on Color Management… button. You will need to select (tick) Use my settings for this device to be able to remove, change or set new color profiles.
The first workaround is by removing any existing ICC or WCS color profiles that are been associated with all display devices or monitors. Else, you can also try to change the default color profile for your system’s monitor to sRGB IEC61966-2.1, simply by clicking on Add, and then select sRGB IEC61966-2.1 from the list of profiles installed on system. After adding, click Set as Default Profile button. Exit from all dialogs and reboot your computer, and the color problem on Windows Photo Gallery is fixed.
If your system doesn’t have sRGB IEC61966-2.1 profile under the ICC Profiles, you can download the color profile from Adobe. Unpack the zip file, the right click on each of the .icc files in the RGB Profiles and CMYK Profiles folders (or simply just the one you need to use) and click “Install Profile” on context menu to install the color profile to system.
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The easiest solution is to change your monitor driver back to the generic PnP monitor.
I tried another solution (win7/32x)
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindows Photo ViewerViewer]
“MainWndPos”=hex:04,01,00,00,58,00,00,00,64,07,00,00,32,04,00,00,00,00,00,00
“Backgroundcolor”=dword:ff000000
“Textcolor”=dword:ffffffff
Awesome. Thanks for this article. It finally fixed that yellow tint problem I’ve been plagued with for months. Alas, I use Windows 7 but the directions still remain the same.
It really helped with a few issues I had to deal with after installing a new acer monitor. Thanks.
Excellent! helped with my second Samsung monitor. Yellow color / tint with Windows Photo Viewer.
Perfect! Worked like a breeze
I had a lot of problems with Windows Vista. So, I shift back into to XP. But, now we have Windows 8 coming out so I am looking forward to it. What are your opinions about Windows 8?
YAY! Thanks for this tip. This has been driving me crazy for ages.
Why is Samsung after Years still distributing this wrong colour profile?
Even photoshop says, that it’s wrong.
The bad support also says to delete it.
So why do they make this error by intention?
Too stupid to fix it?
thanks, the problem started after installing VLC
it had nothing to lcd monitor only in picture view not all windows
Amazing tip! I knew my new LED screen couldn't be broken.
Thanks
thanxx…a lot…helped me to fix d sepia(yellow) tint prob of win photo viewer on my win 7 OS !!….although u wont find advanced settings in personalisation>display…..in win 7 u have t type 'color' in search option n u'll get a list of of some prog's in that u may select 'color managment' n u shud delete all the profiles associated wid ur LCD device….n u will b done wid ya prob …..
Damn microsoft. Delete monitor profile to solve problem with windows viewer is only solution?…. Thats could be useful, but some stupid. My profile for HP LP2475w was built with ProfileMaker and EyeOne and its completely correct. But windows viewer works incorrect. As for me, using of alt. viewer like XnView is better solution.
Thank You. This fixed my problem.
Tanks, very usefull info, my problem is fixed.
Thank you! Fixed a problem that was bothering me for awhile now.
Thnx so much! It fixed my win 7 yellow color issue!
Thanks again!
Thank you.
Thanks so much man your where a huge help i have a syncemaster 20" and it was making yellow tint with my nvidia card. not its all fixed.
Thanks so much! You were a big help! I was wondering what the heck was wrong when I installed Windows 7 on two of my computers. The one has an LG Monitor but the other doesn't. I had no clue that had anything to do with why the one with an LG Monitor was yellow-tinted when I viewed pictures. Thanks a million. Oh and I didn't have to reboot my computer and it started working
fucking shit. Stupid amerikosy 7 WINDOWS
PRICK your mouth TSEREZ pussy and elbow
nothing to swear, just updated the monitor driver. Let windsurfing find it in the internet
You are AWESOME!! Worked great. Thanks!!
Thanks so much for this, it has solved a rather annoying problem!
Awesome! That worked like a charm!
thanks a lot, this problem has been bugging me (and my photos) for quite some time! =)
The download no longer works! Please reupload or send the file to my email..
Thanks a bunch! Worked for me 2. Samsung 2343 LCD
Thank You . It worked on my windows Seven AOC Monitor.
Thanks man, worked a charm! Windows 7 Samsung LCD
Thanks! It works. Finally. (Vista Professional, Samsung monitor)
Thanks mate!! this has been driving me bonkers for weeks.. it works. I have a Samung LCD. and found you on the first search screen in google for "screen is pink windows 7" lol.
Just wanted to also say thanks. This has been driving me nuts for weeks.
thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!, that worked for me , now i can see the real color of my pics.
I'd just like to add my thanks to the chorus.
THANKS!!!
Perfect! This site is stellar. All solutions are practical and don't feel like hacks, just simple, legal solutions. Almost every obscure problem I've had has led me back to this site. Keep it up!
Thanks a million! One Google search plus your excellent advice made this work on Win7!!!
Changing to sRGB IEC61966 Worked a charm in W7. Thanks!
I fixed it by clicking on the 'Caliberate color' link from the display applet.
Thanks alot!
Fantastic!
Thanks a lot. I had the yellow only in the Win 7 default browser, and this tip works like a charm. I remember having downloaded an update of the driver for my LG monitor, but I wouldn't have imagined that it was the driver's fault.
Thank you very much! Just fixed my Win7 64x Samsung monitor issue. Interestingly enough, I have 2 different Samsung monitors hooked and only 1 exhibited that problem. I'm a happy camper now. Thanks again.
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THANK YOUUU! Been looking for a solution for a LONG time!
thanks. your blog has been very useful.
A big thanks from me too!
In Windows 7 the options to add or remove are grayed out, due to the security thing whereby even the admin cannot make direct changes.
To get around this you need to adjust the settings for you, the user, ie YOUR profile as well as the computer's. If I could remember how I did it I'd explain but I've forgotten!
I should add the yellowing was after downloading the latest monitor driver from Samsung, not Microsoft. The Microsoft one was fine. I only downloaded after mistakenly thinking a game was at its highest resolution and the monitor kept going blank – the list was actually upside down and I was running the game at its lowest resolution (and for that you can blame MS, as it was Flight Simulator X – why put the highest resolution at the bottom and lowest at the top? Crazy people!)
Thanks again!
Your blog is vastly more helpful than Samsung's "support"