Screen severe Green Cast

I am in need of some guidance again.

I have been messing about on the Medion creating Albums with Photo
Shop Ele 4 and JAlbum .

Some how I have installed a permanent green cast to the screen which
effects all programs. All images/photos are severe green. OOo opens

pmj...

Oh dear!
:-(

with a dark green screen, all text is green in win explorer, start
button green.

Have done a system restore which has uninstalled Phot Shop but prob is

pmj...

That's odd...
Cos if it was a Setting in the Registry or somewhere, you would
expect a System Restore to Correct it?

Did you try another System Restore to a (different) earlier point?

still there.

I think I have caused it with the album creation in one of these two
progs, but cannot find any way to correct it. I have looked in JAlbum
and can find no functions to alter backgroud colours, JAlbum is a
little quirky (is that the word) and I cannot uninstall it at moment.

Nothing in Display Properties has any effect.

Jeff Gaines...

On mine (Intel graphics) if I press 'Advanced' in the 'Settings' tab
under display properties there is a tab for the graphics card, in turn
that has a 'Colour' tab - you can make a right mess of the colours
there!

Otherwise is it the monitor itself? If you change settings on the
monitor, e.g. colour temperature, you can get odd effects.

Any Ideas?

Faolan...

Normally colour casts are caused by hardware rather than software
(unless you use colour calibration software...).

check your VDU cable, it may have come loose and 9 out 10 times this is
the reason your getting the cast.

The other option is to reseat your graphics card, and then re-install
the gfx drivers.

The final option would be rebuild your ICC profiles....

Barbara...

Fwiw while I certainly wouldn't dispute the neccessity of checking the
obvious cabling (including CAREFULLY flexing/altering the lcd panel if this
is a laptop?) but I would say that it's and odds-on favourite that Photoshop
Elements
has used Adobe Gamma correction to write another or modify an existing ICC
profile!

With the sparcity of PC system information given and my ailing powers of
telepathy I would hesitate to query the Display property values (which could
be decidely suspect) from the OP's second post.
Ascertaining what specific hardware (particularly) including graphics
adaptor,firmware are installed would assist in pointing the OP to the
relevant place to
check or eliminate a ICC profile as the cause, create a new one and/or at
worst case reset to defaults.
Whether buggy driver/firmware has (in the unlikely but not impossible event)
allowed any permanent damage is highly
speculative but should be relatively easy to test once the environment is
stated.

As an example ATI Radeon 9xxx may have access to various ICC profiles
located in the usual windows driver color folder accessed via the Color
Management Tab of Advanced Properties from display Properties (Desktop).

which resolves to (an inconveniently wrapped URL on your newsreader):
for a MS XP color management tool.

After surviving the challenging task of installing the aforesaid useless
utility and subsequently pressing a few buttons at random one should be
able to deduce whether one is using XP's default ICC of sRGB IEC61966-2.1
or perhaps initiated an interesting indoor firework display instead?

However even an IC1 male will eventually determine that installing yet
another piece of buggy old MS bloatware is unneccessary for this particular
purpose when his Color Management Tab on his Adapter Advanced settings
gives him a Default Monitor Profile of which he now (hopefully)
realises is equivalent to sRGB IEC6... blah blah above anyway.

Of course all of this is highly speculative until the IC1 male in question
actually breaks a habit of a lifetime and reveals what he's hiding about his
system to a mere female?
For all we(I?) know he could have just plugged in his IBM 3170 monochrome
VDU to the 30year old 3168 model 40 mainframe he picked up at the car boot
sale and is hysterically watching ECBDIC generated green text crawl across
his screen?

Which those more mature IBM sysops will nostalgically recall was only
passably more exciting than hitching up ones skirts, and donning one's
waders when the Frame 15 Cooling Distribution Unit sprung an inevitable
leak - and who said chilled water and 400Hz electricity don't mix?
Naturally at this juncture one has to offer the usual apologies if you found
my latter rambling digression a "shocking" waste of time.... ;-)

Good Luck with the color

pmj...

Is it the whole of the Screen (including the Desktop) that is Green?
or just the Background of the Application Windows?

Have a look in Display Properties again...
Switch to the "Desktop" Tab
Select
In the List of Backgrounds
Then Click the DropDown List & Set the Color to Stark White
(160, 0, 240) H S L - Hue, Saturation & Lightness which is the same
as 255, 255, 255 RGB - Red Green Blue

& Click [OK]

Does the Desktop now show in (Pure) White?

& then go back to the Display Properties & Switch to the "Appearance"
Tab...

Click [Advanced...]
Then Click in the bit which says "Window Text" (or Select "Window"
in the "Item: " DropDown List
Click on Color & see what Color that is Set to.

If it's not the sort of Color (best to have a pale, off-white Color),
try changing that.

& if it's Set to the Green Color that you have on the Screen,
then that's what (& where) the prob is!
:-)

OK back out of it all & now go back into the Display Properties (again)
& Switch to the "Settings" Tab...

Click [Advanced...]
Then Select the NVidia GEForce (or ATI Radeon) Tab
& have a look at all the *Hundreds* of Settings in there.

There are plenty of things to adjust the Color of the Graphics
Card Output

If none of than is much Help in tracking down the prob, then we'll
need a bit more Description of exactly *what* things are showing in
this Green Color.

& also, have a look at the actual *Monitor* Settings - usually
Accessible via Buttons or Wheels on the Monitor itself.

Is it an LCD one?
Or a CRT one?
If it's a CRT, try Degaussing it.

& on both LCD & CRT, you can adjust the "Color Temperature"