UPDATE 9/13: Lenovo has now diagnosed that the cause of the problem is Eye Care mode in the Lenovo Vantage app. It's therefore easy to solve the Windows 10 orange-ness by disabling Eye Care mode and resetting the color temperature from within the app. Details of how to do that can be found in the Lenovo forum.
Original Story 9/9:
Even though Microsoft takes every effort to remove all the bugs before releasing a Windows 10 update, some do go undetected. The latest to slip through the net is quite a colorful one.
As MSPoweruser reports, the Windows 10 May 2019 Update (1903) Cumulative Update KB4512941 includes a number of major fixes, but it's also adding a tint of orange to everything displayed on screen.
Some users are complaining this happens when capturing a screenshot, whereas others state the discoloring gets progressively worse, turning from a light shade of orange and becoming more red as time goes by. The only element on screen that isn't affected is the mouse pointer.
According to Windows Latest, "the problem appears to be associated with the Lenovo Vantage app on PCs with any version of Windows 10 May 2019 Update installed, and not the particular KB4512941 patch." The blog points to Lenovo forum posts from May, which report similar orange-red displays.
Some are recommending an update to graphics card drivers; Lenovo forums posters recommend uninstalling the Lenovo Vantage app or fiddling with Eye Care Mode.
A Microsoft spokesperson said the company is "aware of the issue and is actively investigating." Lenovo did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The cumulative patch, meanwhile, does include some important fixes such as stopping unsupported apps appearing as a default for certain actions, fixing an issue preventing games using Spatial Audio, fixing a disappearing cursor issue when selecting a text input box using touch, fixing an issue when downloading copyright digital media using Microsoft Edge or IE, allowing more Win32 apps to work with Windows Mixed Reality, and fixing many more minor but important issues.
The orange tint bug may be bizarre and annoying, but it's preferable to the last Windows Update bug, which prompted a huge spike in CPU usage when Windows 10 started. Cortana was thought to be the culprit.
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