I'm trying to calibrate my monitor and after doing so, any photos I open in photoshop have an extremely red cast. The are perfect opened elsewhere. I am trying to delete the adobe gamma loader but when I located it in the startup file and try to delete it, it says that it is only the shortcut I'm deleting. It says I should go to add/delete programs in the control panel. However, I cannot locate it in the control panel.Any suggestions?

That should be enough, this is the general method of preventing adobe gamma starting up. Anything placed in the startup menu will be launched automatically on startup, and hence anything removed will not launch anymore. You don't have to uninstall it.

Just to make sure it isn't starting up elsewhere, go to:

start>run

type msconfig

go to the startup tab

make sure there isn't anything in there that looks like "adobe gamma".

It shouldn't be there anyway, but......

It sounds as though there might be something wrong with your profile.

How long did you leave your monitor switched on before calibrating it?

Failing that there might be a problem with your calibration unit. I seem to remember there being some messages on the board about this a while back: people complaining of a red/ pink cast. Might be worth a search.

Andy

When you say "monitor" are you referring to a CRT or an LCD? You may already know this but Adobe Gamma is not designed for use with LCDs.

Adobe Gamma is a control panel applet.... you need to look for a file named "adobe gamma.cpl" in your Windows/System32 folder.

The monitor is an older NEC CRT. I haven't calibrated it in a long while as i rarely print at home anymore. The screen looked really washed out. After calibrating it with an older version eye one display with version 3.0, the colors became much more vivid. Images brought up in breezebrowser look fine. it is only in photoshop that they are very red.
I've still not been able to locate adobe gamma.cpl. I may have removed it years ago but just don't remember. i have ordered a new eye one display 2 and will see if that cures it. If not, it may be time to upgrade to PS cs4 which i understand doesn't open with adobe gamma. I'm still using CS.

Do what Andy said and uncheck the box next to Adobe gamma in the start-up folder. If that doesn't take care of it then do a search for *gamma* on your computer.
You can disable it, once found, by changing the file name, e.g. adding NOT to the file name. If you ever want it back, you can repair the file name.

Barry