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Thank you so much for your helpful replies. Sorry I forgot to include my system details, so here goes. 

I run two seperate desktops, but each has dual monitors. Both run Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. The graphics card on my oldest system is an Nvidia 8800GT PCI Express and the processor is a Core 2 Duo E8500 running on a Gigabyte mobo. From C.D.'s reply it seems that this should support dual profiling. However my new system is still set up with the onboard graphics processor. It runs with an i7 CPU on a Gigabyte Z77-3DH mobo with 16Gb ram. From your comments, I doubt that this will support dual profiling so shall be looking for a fast Graphics card before too long.

I had been told that each monitor would need its own "color lookup table" and I have no idea what this means, so it confused me a bit, but your graphics card explanation helped.

Anyway, your info has really helped. So thank you all again.
Julia. 


 

--- In datacolor_group@yahoogroups.com, "Bob Geoghegan" <bob.geo@...> wrote:
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> Thanks C.D. and Laurie.  Somehow I knew it couldn't be that easy.
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> [mailto:datacolor_group@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of C D Tobie
> Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2013 9:09 PM
> To: datacolor_group@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [datacolor_group] Dual Monitors
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> On Feb 17, 2013, at 2:48 PM, Bob Geoghegan <bob.geo@...> wrote:
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> Looking at J.D's question I wonder if there's a pre-install indicator for
> likely success on Windows systems.
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> No. but that would be a great idea. 
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>   If you see different color profiles for each monitor under the control
> panel for display properties, Screen Resolution, Advanced Settings, Color
> Management (at least by Win7 64 bit navigation).  If the factory profiles
> are loaded and show as separate profiles for each monitor, would that be a
> sign of likely success for separate calibration?
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> No, that would indicate separate ICC profiles for each, but would not
> indicate separate calibration LUTs. To test that, you would change the
> profile for one screen to something different, that showed a flash from the
> LUTs loading. If the other display also flashes, then that would indicate a
> ''shared" calibration LUT. If not, that should indicate separate LUTs. We
> might have a Support FAQ on this, but the original poster had not yet
> contacted support...
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>  My limited sample of 2 successful machines followed this pattern.  The
> DataColor profiles moved into the config slots that held the factory ones.
> These were both Lenovo ThinkPad T series machines running Win7 64 bit.
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> Most systems work, these days. Its not a huge issue, but its only fair to
> warn people that there can be problems.
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> C. David Tobie
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