Color Control Panel Applet for WinXP

[MattC]

I stumbled across this page:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/usin ... ntrol.mspx

Apologies if previously posted.

Edit: Another useful link with a full description:

http://www.earthboundlight.com/phototip ... panel.html
The whole site, particularly the phototips archives is worth a browse.

Cheers

[Greg B]

Thanks Matt! Great links.

[stubbsy]

Thanks Matt. Wonder if this will allow two profiles to be active at once so I can use my calibrated LCD profile on my LCD at the same time as my calibrated CRT profile for my CRT in my dual monitor system

Earthbound light - been there many times. A great site.

[MattC]

I dont think that it will Peter. AFAIK, the only way to do what you are wanting is dual graphics cards, unless using a card that is able to take two sets of calibration data (LUT). Does such a beast exist?

My impressions of the Colour Settings Applet is that it really only provides functions that should have been in the colour management tab of display properties to start with. It's a pity that MS has seen fit to cludge it up with the .NET Framework.
Being able to visually compare profiles is nice though, even if that feature is fairly useless.

Cheers

[stubbsy]

Thanks Matt. I feared so.

Are you saying the .NET framework is required (ie this is a .NET app?). Not an issue for me (I develop apps in .NET for my day job si it's also at home), but that's a damn big download to get a tiny control panel applet. Might be the MS way of getting .NET on every machine

[MattC]

Yeh Peter, .NET framework is required, but fear not, you don't need to download that as well. The installer will only want to download it if .NET is not present. The download is a total of 1.5MB.

Cheers

[MattC]

 BTW, v2 of the .NET Frame work is out. Redist. version available here for those with more than one computer to update. 22.4MB


This update is not required for the Control Panel Applet. That will run quite happily on v1.1