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Calibration and color profile

indigo

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I use the spyder II calibator. I am wondering if if after calibration I can simply somehow install the profile created by the calibrator and uninstall the calibration software until the next time I need to calibrate?
 

Take2

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Are you on Mac or Windows? I'm assuming you're using Datacolor's monitor calibration software? Why would you want to uninstall the software?
 
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indigo

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I am on Windows XP machine. I want to uninstall the software because I think it's just eating up the memory for nothing.
 

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the calibration software should just create the Windows profile that is used by XP. I don't think there is any reason to uninstall it. The Windows Task Manager should confirm this.
 

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Don't know about Datacolor, but i1Match has a little utility that runs at startup which enforces loading of the default profile (presumably the one you created), but nothing stays running / resident in RAM.

Now if you're concerned about disk space (and not RAM), I'd say, "Don't be", unless you're on the most spartan of SSD setups (like just a 32gb or 64gb.) The software can't possibly take up more than 100 Megs, and storage is cheap

--Greg
 

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The MacIntosh operating systems automatically perform the task of the utility referred to above. Windows XP does not. Hence the need to run this utility at startup.