Loading Preset Colour Profile

I have some preset colour profiles a friend sent and cant fnd the correct place in the Prog dir to place them.
I'm using this on a PC not Mac running on XP
I tried putting it in the Sys 32/drivers/colour folder but it doesnt run from there
Probably something very basic i've missed
Help would be greatly appreciated

Quickest way is go to an existing Develop Preset - right-click - you do have right-clicking on PCs don't you :)) - and select Show in Explorer. This will open up in the correct directory.
Richard Earney
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