Fix Windows Photo Viewer Display Problem: Tinted Yellow-to-Pink Colour Glitch

The yellow tinted background glitch happened in Windows Photo Gallery and Adobe Photoshop while I was using Windows Vista, and there is no luck for Windows 7 Ultimate installation as well :-(

As you can see in this animation, Windows Photo Viewer shows different colour at before and after applying the fix:

I haven’t installed Adobe Photoshop CS3 as well as Windows Photo Gallery, but guess I will see the same weird colour problem in these two graphic applications.

Windows Photo Gallery is not in my Windows 7 Ultimate, only the Photo Viewer program. Anyway, it can be downloaded from Windows Live.

How to fix the tinted yellow-to-pink color problem in Windows 7 graphic applications?

The good old trick applied and it works well in Windows 7 to fix display color glitch as seen in Windows Photo Viewer. It should be applicable to Adobe Photoshop, Windows Photo Gallery, etc (since the Color Management is a system setting, not limited to individual or selected applications).

1) Click Windows Start button, type colorcpl.exe in the Search programs and files text-box, and click the program shortcut appears atop to open Windows Color Management dialog box:

Using Windows Color Management to remove ICC profile that causes weird display color in Windows Photo Viewer.

2) Select the display device (your monitor), tick “use my settings for this device” check-box, highlight the ICC profile and click Remove button.

Once that is done, the Windows Photo Viewer is showing right colour as I wish :-)