All my images look sepia toned when opened in photoshop

I have new laptop with Photoshop cs4. I have a Nvidia Geforce GTX 660M 2G hard drive in the lap top. The colors look great in everything but Photoshop. Everything in Photoshop has a yellowish almost sepia toned tint. I have been trying to figure out what is wrong for several day... (and several hours for several days). I understand that Photoshop color corrects, but if I have de-saturated an image why does it still look sepia in Photoshop and B&W everywhere else?

Your monitor profile is hosed. You need to calibrate your monitor, preferably with a hardware calibrator puck, and generate a fresh monitor profile.
While other applications are not color managed, Photoshop is color managed and uses your monitor profile to send the colors to your monitor through your monitor profile, which other applications ignore.
You can start learning about color management here:
http://www.gballard.net/psd/cmstheory.html

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