Mike Chaney has figured it out for us.
Below find his explicit instructions.
Followed precisely, not skipping any step should get the monitor profile that you made to work in W7.

I'm slowly discovering all the dances you have to do in order to get Windows 7 to work properly.  Sometimes it's a matter of making just the right face while praying.  My latest discovery was how (finally) to get the ColorVision Spyder to work with Windows 7 so you get a working monitor calibration and profile:

(1) Right click on the desktop and select "Personalize".
(2) Click "Display".
(3) Click "Change Display Settings".
(4) Click the tiny "Advanced Settings": link in blue.
(5) Click the "Color Management" tab.
(6) Click the "Color Management" button: only button on this tab.
(7) Click the "Advanced Tab".
[8] Click "Change System Defaults".
(9) Click the "Advanced Tab".
(10) Uncheck "Use Windows Display Calibration".
(11) Close out all open dialogs.
(12) Right click on your "Spyder2Express" icon on the desktop.
(13) Select "Run As Administrator": just opening it WILL NOT WORK.
(14) Go through the process of profiling your monitor.
(15) Repeat steps (1) through (9) above, then
(16) CHECK "Use Windows Display Calibration".
(17) Click "Start", "All Programs", and open "Startup".
(18) Right click on the Colorvision Startup and delete it.

When you're done, if you want to verify things, use Explorer and
open c:\windows\system32\spool\drivers\color.  Make sure there is
a Spyder2Express.icm with today's date/time from your above
calibration.  If so, you know the Spyder2Express software stored
the .icm profile in the right place.  If you don't run the
Spyder2Express as administrator, the profile will not go to the
proper directory.  You may also want to go through steps (1)
through (6) above to verify that the default profile is
Spyder2Express.icm.

Yep... seems pretty straighforward, eh?   Huh

Mike

Fred,
I followed the instructions ,and did another calibration.
Here are my results:
Brightness=100%
Contrast=50%
Sharpness=16.6%

The brightness seems a little high,so I ran another calibration
Same results.
I double checked to see if the newer calibration was listed and it is.
Also,I ran a test print,and the results are all the same as before,,prints were a little dark.

Do you think that I would be better off ,getting a better calibrating device???
The spyder2 express,is almost 2 years old???
I made sure the driver was updated to the 64bit version.
The original brightness level was 30.6%,which looked a lot better than 100%

Any Ideas??

Thanks
Mike

I too run a Spyder Express, and frankly, I am not thrilled with it on LCDs. It was great on my CRT monitors, but the LCDs...
Here's what I did to achieve a great monitor profile.
I made a test print. It doesn't have to be a special test image, just something that has plenty of shadow detail and highlught detail too.
Not worried about color at this point as the Spyder does work well for that.
I let the print dry, and using a good light, try to make my monitor Brightness and Contrast match the print.
I take my time. I adjust one against the other until I have matched my print.
** Since the print was made using an Epson profile for the matching Epson paper, I assume my print to be reasonably correct WRT contrast and brightness.**

Now that the brightness and contrast have been reset, I must redo the profile using the spyder.
Then I get a good profile.
All the LCD monitors I have ever seen, out of the box, are far too bright.

Of course the better way would be a Color Munki type spectro, but that costs more than a decent monitor, and since LCDs are pretty stable, it wouldn't get the use to justify the cost for me.

Just a comment....  Most everyone knows this, but.... the monitor profile has no effect on the print.
All that might happen is that seeing the too bright image on screen, the user might darken it to look good, and THEN, you will have affected the print.

Hope some of this helps a little.
I see Terry has replied.  He has the best grasp on the monitor matching the print issue.  Thank you Terry
Fred

No, Spyder does not really tell you where you are with Brightness or contrast, and that's the reason I used the method as outlined in my reply to do it eye ball style.
Remember, it is important that you do the profiling after you have selected the brightness and contrast level that is a close match to the prints.
Fred

Here is where I think you do it, I have an NVidea card 8400GS but on XP.
This may still help with W7 or not .....
See attachments below of screen snaps.
If you do not have an nVidea icon in your system tray, right click the screen and select nVidea Control panel. Go to the view menu and check Show Notification Tray Icon.
Right click the tray icon and select nView Desktop Manager & nView Properties.
On the Desktop management tab, make sure the features are not enabled - the button will say "Enable".
As far as I can see, the program nView is installed with the driver and it looks like the feature above is off by default. I've never had problems with XP but W7 is probably completely different. 

A late thought:-
I've just checked in Control Panel, Add/Remove programs; nView Desktop Manager is listed separately so it could be removed from there. If that causes problems, just re-install the nVidea driver.
Terry.

Ray,
Thanks for your reply and I ddi not find the nView file.

I should have checked before i posted this earlier

Thanks for the link.

Mike

Hi MikeS
Interesting report back, thanks.
Have you tried the refine process with ColorMunki on the print profile where you read from a sample print, the areas where improvement is required, and the CM software makes a new target to scan, which then refines the existing profile?
Terry