Datacolor User to User Support Group.

Hi Guys,

I recently became so frustrated with trying to bring my Dell 1707FP monitors to a decent 
colour state, that I got myself Spyder2Express.

I have tried the above on my Macbook and Powerbook laptops and it works just fine - 
Selecting a different colour profile on the Macs applies the changes immediately (and you 
can see the difference in real time).

Having tried the same on my PC however (running Win XP SP2); The profile is created, I set 
it as default from within Display Properties, but when I hit apply nothing happens. The 
screen remains just as before it got calibrated. Activating the default Dell colour profile 
makes no change either -

The question therefore is; Is the colour profile not applied on all applications in Windows 
(i.e. Desktop / Outlook etc), but only in colour-profile-aware applications like Photoshop?

If this is the case, how can you adjust the screen for a 'proper' business work environment 
(Outlook / Excel, etc)?

The Nvidia drivers that come with my Quadro FX card allow you to calibrate the monitors 
on the fly, but I cannot bring them to a satisfactory setting by hand.

Any ideas?

Thanks