Colors washed out after Windows 10 Creators Update.

Hi,

It seems that you've done a lot of troubleshooting step to resolve the issue. If you're still having trouble with the brightness level of your device, try booting your PC in safe mode and see if the same thing will happen to further isolate the cause of the issue.

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I am having similar issues ..
My colors look washed out and flat,gaming visually looks flat and lack of contrast.

I've reinstalled drivers,windows 10(media creation tool).

I've also tried other monitors swapping between my windows 10 and windows 7 pc monitors,cards etc. Everything works fine on win 7 pc .Images,screenshots that look bad on creators build look fine on win 7 machine.

I'm narrowing down to possibly ICC profile issue with windows 10 creators build?I have noticed numerous postings about it on various forums and reddit but unfortunately not seeing much on windows sight or any clear solution. help or pointing me in the right direction would be much appreciated thank you.

I finally was able to fix this problem by removing the color profile that apparently was assigned to my display.

Go to Display adapter properties -> Color Management -> Color Management...

Make sure the appropriate (problematic) monitor is selected if you have more than one and click the profile below ICC profiles.

Finally hit Remove, Close, OK and reboot.

Thanks for the response.

I've tried selecting "use my settings for this device"
and using icc profile for the monitor and also picked a modified profile from TFT Central.
helped making it look better but not to the same quality it was once at.
Also Generic PnP Monitor for device drives me crazy.Not sure why I can't get it to display my monitor like it used to.

Yes, several horrible display issues following creators fall update. Most noticeably my colors were incorrect - a huge deal for me with a photography hobby.

I run an nvidia graphics card and using the nvidia control panel under Adjust Desktop Color Settings I set "Choose how color is set" to "Use Nvidia Settings" (away from "Other applications control color settings".

That fixed things for me but really MS - messing with my color profiles like this is a huge mistake.

I couldn't find the Display Adapter -> Color Management options described above, even after looking for 10 minutes or so before I came across the nvidia control panel solution.

Another issue I notice is some icons in Universal Apps are no longer smoothed/anti-aliased correctly (Skype for example).

I'm a professional photographer and this is absolutely disastrous for me.

I have a very high spec PC and my two Dell monitors (each is a different model) are calibrated using an X-Rite ColorMunki calibration device.

Where the two monitors used to match almost exactly, and I could depend on my prints looking pretty much as per the screen, they now look completely and utterly different.  I've tried calibrating 3 times but with no good results.

In Windows 10, please go to "Color & high contrast" in Settings. Turn off "Apply color filter" option. This helpmed me solving this issue.

Mani

Did you read all my post?

I have a very high spec PC and my two Dell monitors (each is a different model) are calibrated using a professional  X-Rite ColorMunki calibration device. I have a very high spec PC and my two Dell monitors (each is a different model) are calibrated using an X-Rite ColorMunki calibration device.

All I want is for the PC to retain the calibrated settings made by the X-Rite ColorMunki calibration device just like it used to before the update.
The only solution I have found is to roll back the update and permanently hide it using a tool provided by Microsoft

I have tried everything mentioned on this page. I've had two remote sessions with Geek Squad, and had a Geek Squad guy out to my house TWICE. Nobody knows how to fix this. It happened in the last update  (1703 I think it was). It's a nasty little piece of code that makes black text look gray and all the fonts look broken and thin. It's driving me crazy.