External display color negative

Recently I found that when I drag a window from the LCD display of my 2010 MacBook Pro 15" to a Lenovo external monitor, the dragged window will look like a film negative as shown in the pictures below. This not only applies to a browser window but virtually every one including that of Google Chrome, Safari, or even the Finder.
Any suggestion of remedy welcome. Thanks!

Press the Option, Command, Control, and 8 keys simultaneously, or turn off White on Black in the Seeing tab of the Universal Access pane of System Preferences.
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