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New W530, love it. But the screen colors appear brighter or a bit more extreme to me than my T61P, which to my eye looks normal. Can I, or should I, do something to 'fix' the W530 colors?

Not sure this is related, but I'm modifying a website, and I took an eyedropper color from the site and plugged it into Photoshop, and the color in the swatch seems paler than the original. Leaves me feeling like I don't know what color is what on this system. On my T61P, edits to colors on my website appeared to me to be the right colors when viewed on other monitors.

Then the color sensor - I cannot find what one does with it or why. Or whether it's related to the brighter colors of the screen (compared to the T61P).

Any direction to what I should do with any of these would be much appreciated. PS, you are talking to a completely non-techy, non-computery person.

The colors on the W530 are extremely accurate - once the screen is calibrated.

I had a W510 before, but without colorsensor. What i did was making this thread, and used the solution posted in it: http://www.thinkpads.com/forum/viewtopi ... 8&t=107029

Sorry for the delay, I needed a spot of time to settle and study the instructions.
Which - worked!
Except - for these last two paragraphs:

One last important bit of advice: one of the Intel processes that runs on the W520 will un-load the display calibrations whenever the screen darkens for a Windows UAC prompt, or after coming back from sleep. Instructions for fixing that are here: http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/W-Series-Th ... d-p/728457

EDIT: forgot to add, one last thing, this is very important: go to start, type in msconfig, click the "Startup" tab, and UN-CHECK "X-RITE Legacy Device," "CalibrationLoader5.0," AND "Color Calibrator Tray." Click apply, then ok. These are the processes associated with the built-in color sensor, if you have it, and they may interfere with Windows loading the profiles.

I checked whether i could complete the 2nd para. before the first. The way "EDIT" reads, it wasn't clear to me the order of these 2. In any case, the "X-RITE Legacy Device" was not in the list at all. So then I proceeded to go back and complete the 1st para, which worked fine and restarted the system. Then I tried to complete the 2nd para., and again the X-RITE Legacy Device was not in the list.

The new beautiful colors "stuck" on reboot.

I'm not sure if that missing file is a 520 file only, or if I should continue to do something else. Thanks.