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- <div align="center"> <h1>Main Screen Help</h1>
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- <font size="-1">( This is the main screen for Monitor Calibration Wizard.)</font></div>
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- <h3>What you can do on this screen:</h3>
- <li><a href="#new">Create a new profile</a></li>
- <li><a href="#save">Save the currently loaded profile</a></li>
- <li><a href="#load">Test and load a saved profile</a></li>
- <li><a href="#checkboxes">Toggle settings on how to apply the current profile</a></li>
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- <h3><a name="new"></a>Creating a new profile:</h3>
- To create a new profile run the wizard. To run the wizard, simply click on the
- "Run Wizard" button. The wizard will take you through the steps required
- to calibrate your monitor.<br>
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- <h3><a name="save"></a>Saving the current profile:</h3>
- If you are happy with the current color prifile, you can save it so it can be
- loaded later. In the outlined box labelled "Save Profile" type in a
- short name for your profile in the text field named "Profile name".
- Once you are done click the "Save" button. A note about names, files
- are named the same as the name you type in so you are limited to valid names of
- files. This means you should only use letters, numbers, and spaces.<br>
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- <h3><a name="load"></a>Loading a profile:</h3>
- To load a previously saved profile, in the outline box labelled "Load Profile"
- click on the dropdown box. Your saved profiles will be listed. If there are a
- lot of saved profiles there will be a scrollbar on the right side of the dropdown
- that you can scroll to view all your profiles. Select one of the listed profiles.<br>
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- Once you have selected the desired profile, you can click on the "Test"
- button to run a 15 second test of the profile to see if you like it. If you are
- happy with the profile, you can load it by clicking the "Load" button.<br>
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- <h3><a name="checkboxes"></a>Toggling settings on how to load the current profile:</h3>
- Below the load profile dropdown box there are 3 checkboxes. These checkboxes define
- how and when the current profile will be applied. A more detialed description:<br>
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- <b>Load at Windows startup</b> - If this checkbox is selected, the current profile
- loaded in Monitor Calibration Wizard will be automatically loaded when Windows
- starts. Monitor Calibration Wizard will start, load the profile, then close. If
- another program changes Windows color profile after this, Monitor Calibration
- Wizard will have no control over it. Refer to the persistent profile checkbox
- on how to enforce this profile while Windows is running.<br>
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- <b>Persistent profile</b> - Monitor Calibration Wizard will run in the Windows
- system tray the entire time while Windows is running. If another program changes
- the color profile used by Windows, Monitor Calibration Wizard will reset the profile
- to your loaded profile, overriding the other programs change. This is very useful
- for gamers because almsot every game will try to reset the color profile Windows
- uses. This allows your profile to be used while running most games and will prevent
- you from having to reapply your profile after running a program that changes Windows
- color profile.<br>
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- When running in persistent mode, the program's icon will appear in Windows system
- tray located at the lower right of your screen. You can restore Monitor Calibration
- Wizard by double-clicking on it or right-clicking on it and choosing "Open".
- The only way to close Monitor Calibration Wizard when running in persistent mode
- it through the system tray icon. Right-click on the icon and choose "Exit".<br>
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- <div align="center"><img src="non_persistent.gif" width="120" height="50"><br>
- <font size="-1">(Non-persistent)</font></div>
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- <div align="center"><img src="persistent.gif" width="120" height="50"><br>
- <font size="-1">(Persistent)</font></div>
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- <b>Apply fix to override driver level color correction</b> - Some programs, mainly
- utilities provided by your video card may change the colors Windows displays on
- a "driver level" rather than changing the color profile provided by
- Windows. In this case, if a driver level color profile was set, Monitor Calibration
- Wizard will not be able to detect the change and under certain circumstances,
- not be able to change the profile. If you check this box, Monitor Calibration
- Wizard will apply a workaround for this, but at the cost of more CPU usage that
- could affect performance. Only check this box if necessary. <br>
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