Screen Grab Colours are dull and don't match original.

I'm running photoshop CS5 on Windows 7 64 bit.
A quick technique I use is to do screen grabs of what I'm working on rather than saving and opening a jpeg.
I do this with alt+print screen. It's worked fine until a few days ago I noticed that the colours were really dull
and didn't match what I had in the original PSD.
When this happens I don't leave Photoshop or the screen I'm working on. I'm doing a screen grab of the
design I'm working on already in Photoshop.
I would expect this if I was grabbing from a different screen or app that perhaps used a different colour
profile but I can't figure out why this is happenign natively within only Photoshop.
I guess something must have changed in some obscure colour management document that is stashed
away in a corner of my hard drive that I have no chance of finding.
Does anybody know why this is happening and what I need to do to fix it? I've been using this technique
for years and it's only now that I discover this problem.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

What kind of monitor do you have?
Is it specifically capable of showing its display with the sRGB gamut (you'll likely have to look in the technical specs for that)?
It is possible to set up a system where the monitor color profile is sRGB (basically, the Windows default), and at that point the colors from non-color-managed applications and those from color-managed applications showing sRGB images will match exactly.
The trick is getting the monitor to show a very good semblance of the sRGB color space, so what you're seeing is proper color. But it's doable.
I assume you're calibrating/profiling your monitor with some device now. What device?
-Noel

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