Windows 10: Screen calibration resetting after Creators Update

I feel your pain. I hope Creators Fall Update to be better. IMHO Anniversary Update was better than current CU.

 

CU has a known issue where it keeps forgetting your colour profiles. I've been using Color Sustainer to force it to apply profiles on logon - And it also has a "keep active" feature where it'll poll the OS every so often and make sure it's still using it. Might help you keep the profile once games boot up.

 

I accidentally found a very simple solution: just go to COLOR MANAGEMENT. Just unclick the hook at USE MY SETTINGS FOR THIS DEVICE, then click it again. For me, this automatically added the "sRGB display profile with display hardware configuration data derived from calibration" to the list of ICC Profiles.

Then set your preferred ICC Profile as the Default Profile. And when you restart the computer, it will remain the default.

It worked for me. Hope it works for you, too.

 

Doesn't work here. Windows still loads default profile on reboot.

 

I had the same symptoms as described here and have solved it.

The basic cause is that the upgrade process loses the previous display colour profile setting and the “Display” settings screen can't put it back. The color profile file is on the disk but it can't be put to work. I needed to use a different screen in control panel.

The way I fixed it was using Control Panel > Display > Display Adapter properties
Then the Color Management tab for my ATI Radeon graphics card (might be different for other cards). Then the Color Management..... button
The screen comes up with a list of “Profiles associated with this device”. In my case the device is Display 1 as I have two monitors. I used the Add.. button to add the color profile for the device, then removed the one that Microsoft had added and made my profile the Default Profile for the device. It has survived in use after reboots.

 

In my case that does not work! See my post above. Same issue except now I've tried an AMD card. While color management shows the correct profiles loaded they are not displaying correctly.

Like I said resetting monitors to default doesn't even work correctly. Using a monitor calibration tool doesn't even work correctly!

So again in my case color management shows the correct profiles loaded but the display is not reflecting that. Before with my calibration tool I could easily match both my monitors. Now I can't even get one to calibrate correctly. And again even resetting to defaults isn't working as it should.

 

I've got exact same issue as gordonlw! Color profile always resets to default on reset/start up and then won't even change when I select ANY profile I've added.

The only way to load the profile I created is to open my calibration software (Lacie Blue Eye Pro -proof edition) and as soon as it's up icc profile kicks in, don't need to run new calibration or test or anything.

Initially I though it was that softwares issue since they haven't updated the drivers since 2009!! BUT then to test I just added some of the standard icc profiles you get with Windows (in Color Management - Devices) and those didn't work or adjust monitor either.

It's 100% a Windows issue. I even tested HDMI and DVI cables knowing that was useless lol

 

Results may vary but it seems to have fixed itself somehow after I exchanged my RX480 for a 1080 and reinstalled Windows. I am now able to do colour calibration with my Spyder elite and have them stick around after reboots. I am... perplexed but happy.

 

I have this exact issue as well after upgrading to creators update... please help my monitors a mess

 

I had the same problem using an AMD video card. Used the fix from Nvidia here, problem is now resolved.

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4452/~/icc-profiles-%2F-nvidia-custom-color-profiles-lost-after-entering-a-game-in

 

Tried that as well, didn't fix the problem.

 

Just wanted to add that this is still happening with the fall creators update that's going through the insider program right now. Every time there is a new build my nvidia control panel settings get reset to defaults. It dose keep the same driver version thankfully because I always keep my GPU driver up to date.

Thankfully I don't change much in the NV control panel but its become a habit first thing after updating to a new build to open NV control panel and switch back to RGB full from RGB limited (weird that's the default since PC monitors are RGB full).

 

I fixed it by going to the Task Scheduler (search Task Scheduler in Start Menu) and going to \Microsoft\Windows\WindowsColorSystem

You should see a task called Calibration Loader.

Right-click it and select Properties.

Go to the Triggers tab in this new window.You should see two triggers here, "At Log on" and "On connection to user session"

Disable them both by clicking on them and unchecking the "Enabled" box at the bottom of the window.

You will still have to fix your color settings back to how you want them, but this should keep Windows from resetting it again.

 

genius

 

I know this is a bit necro on my part, but having just found this, and having it have fixed this BS I have been dealing with for way longer than I should have been. I just had to say, thank you. I would have never thought to nix the task, and believe me, I have tried a ton of "fixes". My hat is off to you, sir.