HP 23xi IPS monitor calibration help

Hi All,
So I have a HP 23xi 23" monitor i've been using for less than a year. Suddenly today my hyperlinks became very hard to discern from dark blue and seems almost black as if it's just regular text.  I have not had this problem until today when I was reading a Wiki page and some of the links seemed to turn black. They are hyperlink and are the links that I have already clicked on so it should turn from light blue to the dark blue but it now seems as if it's closer to black. How do I change this back to normal again and what the heck caused this? 
I connected my computer to my old monitor and on that the colors seem fine as I can discern the blue, dark blue and black fonts but back on the HP the dark blue is like a black.  I also installed the calibration tool from the CD but I can't find anything on there to help adjust it so that the dark blue is different from the black. 
This monitor was working fine until today. Nothing new done to the computer today except 1 windows definition update. Could that have caused this problem?  I have updated the driver for the monitor as well to the latest 2013 Jan version. 
HP 23xi with my comp running windows 7 64bit. 
Thanks in advance.

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