LR 4.3 / Secondary display problems

I switched from LR2 to LR4.3 and I am facing lot of problems with secondary display use :
   * The secondary display LR4 looks like to use wrong ICC profile. When I put the secondary window in the middle between primary and secondary display it seems to be ok (homogenous colors on the two part of the window betwwen both sreens) then when I move it more on the secondary screen, it becomes ugly. I guess it is a problem of color profile. What is very strange is that with LR 2 it is still working perfectly (so I am sure it is not a problem of hardware, nor WIN 7 issue) but a problem with LR 4.
    * I was using "Display" mode on the secondary display to put stars on the pictures (sorting them). With new version (LR4) I can't anymore acess in modification to the number of stars in display mode. Is there a way to modify that (setting ?).
Thank you.

Failure to load the correct monitor profile for the secondary monitor has been an occasional OS bug on both platforms.
I have a wonderful (and free) little utility called Display Profile.exe, originally made by X-Rite, to confirm profile per display. But it seems they stopped offering it, can't find it on their site...

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