Adobe and Windows color mismatch

Question

I went to the house of a pro photographer friend to help him set up and learn Lightroom.
All went well until the export stage. We exported a RAW file as a jpeg to the desktop. I made sure the setting for the image was
b sRGB.
After saving, we looked at the image in ACDSee and also dragged to Internet Explorer. In those applications, the images looked brighter and over saturated. By the way, the same problem was noted when images were exported from PhotoShop. So this is not exclusively a Lightroom problem. It seems that PhotoShop and Lightroom save these images in such a way that they do not render accurately on standard viewing applications. When re-importede back into either Lightroom or PS they look fine.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v18/wixmith/Technical/Diffferent_rendering.jpg
Again, export was carefully done to sRGB color space. Ironically, when exported as jpegs converted using Adobe RGB, the images looked correct in IE and ACDSee. I do not have this problem on my own system. Exported images look fine.
Any ideas?

Answer 1

>The point of mapping the color space to sRGB is to insure that the image as viewed in IE is as close possible to what you see in Lightroom.
That only works on a sRGB monitor. On another monitor, like your expensive LaCie, the absence of color management will display the image as if it is in the monitor profile. This means that everything will become more saturated. This is an unavoidable consequence of not color managing. ONLY in color managed apps will you see the right color. This is true for every monitor even more consumer oriented ones. Internet explorer will never ever show you the correct color.
>A wider gamut monitor should affect the image in Lightroom and in IE the same if Lightroom is doing its job correctly.
Absolutely not. That is not how color management works. Only managed apps will display the real color. Lightroom is managed. Managed apps correct the color that is displayed by correcting for the actual gamut of your display.
See for more explanation: http://regex.info/blog/photo-tech/color-spaces-page1