Illustrator and Windows 8.1

I use Adobe Illustrator CS4. I just updated to Windows 8.1 and the colours in Illustrator are now very pale and dull. If I move the design to another program, the colours are bright so the problem must be something with Illustrator...

I use pantone colour swatches.There is no difference in cmyk and rgb -modes. Before the update everything was working fine but after the Windows 8.1 -update the colours are all wrong... but I have no idea what I would need to do to correct things. Adobe couldn't help because I use an older Illustrator version (CS4), so there is no warranty anymore... :/

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