Advice for Upgrading Windows Computer

[Mike Wickham]

>Also: Two screens are almost a necessity. They will soon enough save a
>lot of time. Especially when using Structured FM.

Two screens are great. I bought a dual-head Matrox card after many 
recommended that brand. One problem I ran into, though, is that Windows XP 
doesn't natively support assigning separate profiles to two monitors 
attached to the same graphics card. It assigns the default profile to both--  
not exactly good for a color management workflow.  Two separate cards might 
be a better choice.

However, Microsoft recently came out with the Microsoft Color Control Panel 
Applet for XP, available here: 
<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1e33dca0-7721-43ca-9174-7f8d429fbb9e&DisplayLang=en>. 
It lets you assign separate profiles and, if you put a link to the applet in 
your Startup folder, with the /L switch, it seems to load both profiles 
correctly. (Be sure to turn off Adobe Gamma or other programs that load 
profiles.)

Mike Wickham
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