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Fix monitor calibration under Windows 10 Creators Update

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I use a calibrated monitor for editing photos, and recently I've had photos where the colours were clearly wrong and couldn't be fixed without complex adjustment layers. The problem was most evident in portraits.  For example, this image taken in sunlight: Original image captured in sunlight Instead looked like this, where her hair has turned an orange/magenta colour, and she also has what appears as a feint orange rash on her forehead.  Note this is a photograph of the monitor, and I've tried to adjust white balance, contrast and saturation to reflect accurately the colours I was seeing. Photograph of screen showing incorrect colours What had gone wrong? Image fault on my Dell U2311H monitor Sensor problem on my Canon 7D Mark II DSLR (9 year old) ColorMunki Photo spectrophotometer could have developed a fault Photographic software playing up.