I've got an old NEC LCD3090QXi, and have been profiling it with SpectraView II (currently v1.1.36) on a Windows 10 64 bit PC using the ColorMonkey for years now. Somewhere along the way MS changed what happens when I go to Settings>Color Management. On the Devices tab I removed all of the accumulated ICC profiles and clicked Add Profile. After finding my latest profile again, I clicked to add it to the Color Management window. I never in the past noticed a checkbox "Add As Advanced Profile," so I checked that. I clicked to set that profile as Default.
On the Advanced tab, choices came up that I had not seen before. Here are what I chose, but I don't have the slightest idea if I made the right choices, because I no longer understand what these settings now do in Windows:
1: Device Profile. I set it to the same, latest profile that I made.
2: Viewing Conditions Profile: I set it to WCS Profile For ICC Viewing conditions.
3: Since most of the time I find the Relative Colorimetric rendering intent more useful, I set it as the Default Rendering Intent.
4:for Perceptual (PhotoImages) I set System Default (Photography).
5:for Relative Colorimetric (line art) I set Photography.
6:for Absolute Colorimetric I set System Default (Proofing - simulate paper color).
7:for Business Graphics I set System Default (Charts & Graphs).
I know what the various rendering intents are used for, and I am used to doing soft-proofing in PS and LightRoom, but don't have the slightest idea of how Windows uses these choice, nor what I should have selected.
Also, on boot-up I used to see the Spectraview app come up and load the profile into the monitor, with the progress bar displaying after the Spectraview window closed. This does not happen anymore, and my boot process seems to have changed with some gray screens that come up before my desktop is visible; I don't know whether the gray screen is simply hiding the Spectraview routine, or if it is simply not running.
Am I using the right procedure to utilize my profiles? And what on earth are they trying to doing at MS? Or is it me?