Colors in Windows 7 too bright/faded after running Windows Update for the first time (everything was going well after initial installation). See the details.

I just installed Windows 7 Pro on a HP Pavilion with a HP w2007 20 ". I have had no problem of color first and everything worked fine. The first time I ran Windows Update, it included an optional update called "HP - display - HP w2007 LCD wide screen". That the update "has failed" to install and when I rebooted, my screen had a look very 'neon' - my desktop background, a picture of a tree with a bunch of Red leaves, was very washed out and now most of the leaves were bright red with no visible details. This is obvious everywhere, not only my desktop background (another example... small green circles next to the names of Gmail chat contacts are very bright green, more even than usual). Everything is too bright. I tried the following hotfixes:

-Manually reinstall the update of the HP screen (it worked this time) and restart - did not work.
-Reset my monitor to factory setting - has failed.
-Download and install the latest HP driver for this monitor - did not work.
-Through: "Control panel-> appearance and personalization-> display-> Calibrate color" and through an assistant color calibration (that's new for Windows 7?). Also, did not work.

I have the dual-boot of Ubuntu installed on this machine and I think the colors under Linux are always very well, so I think it's a problem with Windows and not the monitor. Because it was working fine before, I would rather try to get everything worked, rather than the update manually the brightness/contrast of my monitor. Any ideas?

A useful answer, I got on another forum (windows7forum.com). It worked:

I had this problem too!

In my case it is also explained by a driver from Windows Update called "nVidia display".

Fortunately, I figured out how to fix it:

  1. Open Computer Management (start > right click on "Computer" > Manage)
  2. Select "Device Manager".
  3. Select 'show cards '.
  4. Right click 'NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT' (or whatever your video card)
  5. Click 'properties '.
  6. Select the 'Drivers' tab
  7. Click on the button "return to the version.

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