I've only been running Vista (w/service pack 1) about a month now, and during that time my custom color profiles for my monitors have freaking disappeared three times. I mean they are gone, just like they have been deleted from the hard disk. After re-profiling my displays, the profiles would be there and all would be well. It's been about a week between each 'incident'.
Today, my printer profiles disappeared. That has never happened before. I need to make a few prints on my Epson SP7600, and the print profiles were no longer in the drop list in CS3. Well, I went to the \Windows\System32\Spool\drivers\color folder, and all the Adobe and microsoft installed profiles are there, but my Nikon profiles and Epson profiles are gone.
1) Has anybody else had this problem?
2) Can it be fixed?
Please don't tell me to switch to Mac or XP, there are compelling reasons that I have to stay with what I'm running. I just need to work around for fix this problem.
Have you tried backing up your profiles? I do that regularly even tho I never encounter such a problem in XP. Or could it be install issues from Vista or a recent install of updates? It's similar on XP after the SP3 updates ~ my firewire devices are not recognized anymore but on my other pc's without SP3, it's ok.
Jack,
I certainly have no idea if there is any relationship here, but after spending some beginning time in NX2 one of my 2 monitors has just "freaked out". By that I mean 2 identical viewsonic 2235 22" monitors, each at 1680 x 1050 pixels, one "decided" to become a 1680 x 2100 dimension, which flat out doesn't work, and all the normally available dimensions between that and 1024 x 768 are gone. I have spent hours in the registry (I'm a computer technician) and deleting and reloading all the nvidia, et al, crap...and this monitor refuses to rejoin the NX2 & Adobe world!
My situation is otherwise different: XP pro here and basically normal performance before now. And like you I'm not interested is "nice" suggestions to throw out what has been working for years...but right now I'm befuddled and looking at starting over.
ReyGay wrote:
Have you tried backing up your profiles? I do that regularly even tho I never encounter such a problem in XP. Or could it be install issues from Vista or a recent install of updates? It's similar on XP after the SP3 updates ~ my firewire devices are not recognized anymore but on my other pc's without SP3, it's ok.
My Vista came preinstalled so I don't what the install issues would be. What I find extremely odd is, the profile *files* are gone, they're just not there anymore. I can recreate them or reinstall them and everything will be ok for a while.
AJ Nadershahi wrote:
Maybe related to an overzealous virus scanner tagging the files as questionable.
And it would probably be a good idea to run a disk scan to make sure the hard drive is not contributing to this issue.
Thanks AJ..... I look at my virus scan logs for the past month, and I can't find anything referencing these color profiles. A drive scan doesn't reveal any problems either.
hikingman wrote:
Jack,
I certainly have no idea if there is any relationship here, but after spending some beginning time in NX2 one of my 2 monitors has just "freaked out". By that I mean 2 identical viewsonic 2235 22" monitors, each at 1680 x 1050 pixels, one "decided" to become a 1680 x 2100 dimension, which flat out doesn't work, and all the normally available dimensions between that and 1024 x 768 are gone. I have spent hours in the registry (I'm a computer technician) and deleting and reloading all the nvidia, et al, crap...and this monitor refuses to rejoin the NX2 & Adobe world!
My situation is otherwise different: XP pro here and basically normal performance before now. And like you I'm not interested is "nice" suggestions to throw out what has been working for years...but right now I'm befuddled and looking at starting over.
Hmm, that is odd. I had a similar thing happen to me, and near as I could tell, it was always screwed up after the monitors had to 'wake up' from being asleep. I turned off power management for the monitors and that problem went away.
