Raw files look different after opening them in CC

HI,
I open them in ACR to edit the raw files for white balance and what not, once I get them perfect I click open image to send them to photo shop CC the image is drastically different.  Please help and I doing something wrong?  it worked great in CS5.
`Terry

You have a broken display profile. The conversion from source profile to display profile should end up with the same result in each, but since the source is different it can happen that one app chokes and the other not.
The choice of working space in Photoshop has no bearing on this, unless you've done something silly like setting Photoshop's color management to "off". Whatever profile comes out of ACR should be honored by Photoshop. They do not have to be the same.
Recalibrate, or if you don't have a calibrator set sRGB IEC61966-2.1 as default display profile in Windows color management. Relaunch Photoshop so that it can pick up the new profile at startup.

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