Screen Captures & All Files at High Contrast in PP GUI

(Later Edit: As mentioned later in thread, this applies to all files opened in Photo Paint, not just screenshots as initially thought.)

This started only very recently and I did an installation repair, but that didn't fix this issue.

But first here are my Default color management settings:



I use Ctrl Shift N to do a New From Clipboard and while once saved as cpt or jpg it is seen in the right colors in Chrome, etc. anything dark gray turns to black.

And here again, when viewing the image directly above in PP...

This only seems to affect dark grays though I haven't tested it on other flat dark colors.  

Here is another example of this from a 2-screenshot image from my video editor:
What it should look like and does - once saved and viewed outside of PP:

What it looks like in PP:

Truth is that on this last examples the non-dark colors were pretty off while I was working on the file.  In this case I could ignore this, but in the future such color oddities are not an option.

Please advise.
Thank you.