The Microsoft Color Control Panel Applet adds a new 'Color' item to the Windows control panel, providing a single place to view and edit color management settings in Windows XP. Using it, you can install and uninstall color profiles, change color profile associations for displays, printers and scanners, view detailed properties for color profiles (including a 3D rendering of the color space gamut), and rename color profiles, keeping the filenames and "internal" names consistent.

This tool also enables Windows to automatically adjust the gamut curve of the display when a color profile containing gamut table information is set as the default profile for the display. Typically, such profiles are created by custom monitor calibration tools, such as those available from ColorVision, GretagMacbeth, and X-Rite. If a color profile has this information, it is shown with an asterisk (*) in the user interface.

Using the Microsoft Color Control Panel Applet, you can:
  • Install and uninstall ICC color profiles
  • Inspect, rename, and compare two different color profiles
  • View a 3D graphics plot of color profile color gamuts
  • Associate color profiles with devices such as printers, monitors, and scanners
  • Apply custom color gamut adjustments to one or more displays “on the fly”
  • Set up display calibration reminders at intervals you specify

    Download: Microsoft Color Control Panel Applet for Windows XP
    News source: Microsoft

    What's new:

      General
    • new: Remove old BIOS information compatibility option
    • new: Keyboard layout and Language group unattended options
    • update: .NET Framework 2.0 compatibility
    • update: Redesigned few pages, more readable
    • update: Smaller final size by compressing more files
    • update: KB891957-x64, KB906569, KB899589-v2, KB900725 integration
    • update: RVM Pack 2.0+ support
    • fix: Missing DATA folder error message
    • fix: Driver integration from read-only media


      Components
    • new: Keyboard layouts
    • new: Acm Core Codecs
    • new: Network Location Awareness (NLA)
    • update: NetDDE (back)
    • update: Printer Support (removes spooler service)
    • update: BlueTooth not dependable on Modem Support
    • update: WMP connectivity not dependant on ICW
    • fix: SCSI drivers component detection


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    (9 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by Quick Reply on 01 Nov 2005 - 14:48
    This WGA is really annoying me, I dont want to activate because I always format in less than a week anyway (as part of my work). Way to help users that legitimately use their software, when people that used cracks and pirated Windows would of already used a crack for this.
    Quote this comment #1.1 Posted by madmatt on 01 Nov 2005 - 15:11
    WGA has nothing to do with activating Windows. It is an ActiveX control that verifies your copy of Windows before allowing you to download some thing.

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/898588
    Quote this comment #1.2 Posted by threedaysdwn on 01 Nov 2005 - 15:20
    Why not activate just because you're going to be reinstalling? I don't get it.
    Quote this comment #1.3 Posted by TheReasonIFailed on 01 Nov 2005 - 15:21
    Well if your hardware doesn't change then all you need to do is copy two files from %windir%system32 after you've activated Windows.

    Those files are:

    wpa.dbl
    wpa.bak (this file may not be there)

    That way you won't have to re-activate when ever you reinstall Windows. Only thing though, you'll have to be in safe mode for you to be able to restore those files.

    And if you're doing that much reformatting why not just use ghost?
    Quote this comment #1.4 Posted by threedaysdwn on 01 Nov 2005 - 15:22
    Yeah but if you aren't changing most of your hardware, you can activate as many times as you want.

    It takes like 15 seconds.

    Lame excuse, I think.
    Quote this comment #1.5 Posted by vettimdorr on 01 Nov 2005 - 16:50
    "Why the hell do you format each week?" is the question you should be asking. I keep my system clean and *never* need to format it. If you keep reformatting that often, you're getting a placebo effect and are just wasting time.
    Quote this comment #1.6 Posted by Jerry J. on 01 Nov 2005 - 20:33
    To the dude about wpa.dbl, wpa.bak... Does this work for MSDN keys? It always fails for me...
    Quote this comment #1.7 Posted by Quick Reply on 01 Nov 2005 - 22:36
    1) Windows needs to be activated to pass WGA. I can't test this new tool.

    2) I have already had to activate 10 times in the last 6 months, the last 4 times I tried to activate, I got the third degree (explain the whole story of why I'm activating) after I had to call up the "Toll Free" number that really isn't toll free, punch in my activation numbers, wait to be connected to an operator, wait on hold (two of the times). One of those times, the operator wouldn't activate me (I think I had been transferred to the UK Activation Center that time)

    3) The reason why I format often, is because as part of my MSCE/College Course, I am always making new unattended CDs, and changing files in Windows that just arn't supposed to be changed, and ever time I Start a new Lab Activity, I have to use a clean environment. All this by coping with the hardware I got, Virtual PC or VMWare doesn't run very pretty on my machine.

    4) I can't Image because it has to be a clean environment of a fresh Windows XP instllation

    5) I can't use the wpa backups because my hardware changes in someway at least every couple of months just because I like to change things around.

    If your system is "Clean" and never need to "format it", hey good for you, not everyone's situation is the same.
    Quote this comment #1.8 Posted by dilema on 02 Nov 2005 - 01:02
    WGA check is for girls.

    direct download Here
    get it while the getting is good. They may remove it.
    Quote this comment #1.9 Posted by alerosenfeld on 03 Nov 2005 - 02:52
    Yeah, those pussies. To do it like a man you have to do it the hard way.

    Hehe, thanks...

    By the way, activation is annoying no matter what situation. Sure I would have no problem doing it once a few years, but in situations like this the system becomes really bad, and they cant make something good only to a few people.
    And I think a snapshot would do for you, even if you need a clean install every time, do a snapshot right after you install Windows.
    (4 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by Computer Guru on 01 Nov 2005 - 15:29
    Guys, this was posted a week ago on neowin
    Quote this comment #2.1 Posted by shanepitman on 01 Nov 2005 - 15:38
    I see it, it was posted on the 29th. I'm guessing this must be an update since it says Date Published: 10/31/2005 on the download link.
    Quote this comment #2.2 Posted by insanekiwi on 01 Nov 2005 - 15:44
    oh gibberish, quit yer offtopic whing
    re-read community rule #7

    thanks for the update.
    Quote this comment #2.3 Posted by Computer Guru on 01 Nov 2005 - 15:49
    did not know this was a different version. most whiners complain that the news is old.l i was wondering why neowin posted it twice.

    DLing right now
    Quote this comment #2.4 Posted by Adequate on 01 Nov 2005 - 21:27
    To 1.3: You know... there's that nifty ninja technique called "Reading" that could have revealed this piece of top secret info...
    Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by icaras on 01 Nov 2005 - 18:20
    it is an update.. as in, this one works for me and the old one didn't
    Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by Sarc on 01 Nov 2005 - 20:22
    Too bad...

    It doesn't work on X64 Edition.

    I wonder if anyone has any screenshots up?
    Quote this comment Reply to this comment #5 Posted by Sarc on 01 Nov 2005 - 20:26
    Yup...

    http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/d...lorcontrol.mspx
    Quote this comment Reply to this comment #6 Posted by Jerry J. on 01 Nov 2005 - 20:33
    Awww, I have .net framework 2.0 installed, but not 1.1... I need to install 1.1 just for this .
    (1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #7 Posted by eilegz on 02 Nov 2005 - 00:12
    this really shows how useless its m$ .net framework the newwer version its not compatible with the old ones

    anyways i only install .net framework when i need to install nlite...

    Anyways java rulz lol
    Quote this comment #7.1 Posted by mr_demilord on 02 Nov 2005 - 11:10
    exactly
    Quote this comment Reply to this comment #8 Posted by Innuendo on 02 Nov 2005 - 02:11
    This is definitely an update. This version is 1,056,400 bytes. The older version was 1,056,356 bytes.

    Probably fixed the bug where the older one wouldn't install on some computers.
    Quote this comment Reply to this comment #9 Posted by Co_Co on 02 Nov 2005 - 02:54
    with monitor colour profiles how does it compare to adobe gamma
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