brightness

The Venue 8 Pro's biggest problem is now solved While the Dell Venue 8 Pro is a wonderful Windows 8.1 mini-tablet, I noted in my review that the device ships with its display overly dimmed. This change artificially bumps up the device's battery life but makes it almost unusable. Turns out it...

On a brightness scale of 0-10, my Asus laptop is a .5 I can only see it with room lights off. A friend told me it might be the display inverter so I ordered one. However, it will take a month from Hong Kong. Does this sound like the right approach? Or is there something else that could cause this?

The display on my Fujitsu Lifebook A530 is so bright it's actually painful to watch. Especially at night. I have tried the F6-F9 keys (marked ▼ ▲ ▼ ▲) that I think are supposed to adjust brightness/contrast but no go. Any ideas as to what to do? Yeah, shades - but that somehow seems so low-tech.

Hi, I have an HP Pavilion dv6 laptop and I recently formatted and installed Windows 7 Ultimate. However I could not successfully install my graphics drivers. First, I installed the driver on HP's website.But now Intel Driver Update Utility says there is a newer version. When I download that...

As long as the power cable is plugged in in my notebook the brightness of my display is fine. But when I plug it out and use the battery the brightness becomes suddenly darker. Why? How can I prevent this switch-to-dark-screen? I found no corresponding option in the power plans Peter

I'm trying to find a new notebook for software development, wanting a touchscrren so I can test touch apps. I've been digging around but not found anything which meets all my requirements yet. These are the kind of specs I'm after: Windows 8 (Pro preferable, but can upgrade after) 64 bit...

Hello, My boyfriend has my old Medion Akoya MD97620 P6618 laptop. Its had a new battery bought and recently a new hard drive bought. We installed Windows 7 on it, which is obviously a clean install due to the hard drive being blank and new. We have just discovered that the FN + Brightness Up...

I have my power options set so when my laptop is plugged in my screen brightness is around 100%, and when unplugged it's around 30%. I've noticed on a number of occasions that if I turn the brightness up with my keyboard keys when it's unplugged Win 7 forgets what my screen brightness settings...

I use Pangobright because the brightness of my Toshiba laptop doesn't go as low as I want it to be, when I'm using the laptop in complete darkness. But Pangobright also doesn't seem to go as low as possible, and when I dim it too low, I can't see a part of the screen unless I'm looking down at...

Fixes an issue in which you cannot adjust the brightness for a laptop that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. This issue occurs after you resume the laptop from sleep mode. More...

My laptop wakes up for no reason after I put it to sleep. I unplugged my USB things and it still doesn't solve. When I do powercfg -lastwake it gives me this: Wake History [0] Wake Source Count - 1 Type: Fixed Feature Power Button Help! This does not have to do with an outdated driver(Most...

I am using a windows 7 Acer laptop, and the screen only brightens when I plug in the charger. Also, the battery gets used up too quickly, even though I have the computer on 'power saver.' Downloading Bios or a brightness control won't work. The lever goes up and down easily when I bring up the...

So I know a lot of computers and laptops don't have drivers out there for Windows 8 yet. But I was curious how your battery life is. I have a 13" MacBook pro and my bootcamp drivers seem to choose when they want to work so my screen brightness has been stuck around 100% and I've been getting...

I have scoured the internet over the past couple of days looking for information about how to get the webcam and card reader working in windows 7 64 on this laptop. I am a sys-admin by trade but this has me stumped, and I see other forums members might have more knowledge about this. I found...

Hi, I'm using a Fujitsu S6520 that I recently upgraded to Windows 7 Professional (32 bit). The fujitsu comes with 8 preset screen backlight levels that can be adjusted via the fn key on the keyboard. Prior to this, I was using Windows XP on the same computer, and I used to set the backlight at...

My 13 year old daughter Lucy has just dropped her Dell Inspiron 1545 from a height of 15 inches :( (she tells me) !!. When she turned the laptop back on the first thing she saw was the wording "Windows is loading files", she has never see this before. When she gets to her login screen all she...

hi guys, i'm having trouble adjusting my screen brightness on my TV when it's connected via a HDMI cable to my laptop. If i try to increase the brightness through my laptop (VAIO VGN-SR) it does so only on my laptop display, while my TV remains the same. Instead if i try to do the opposite...

Why is Windows 7 64 SP1 bit stuck on full brightness, FN+ keys don't work, I would like them to work. Asus N50VN. I did go to the drivers page and latest drivers did not work, I installed Nvidia from Windows Update still FN+ down keys don't work

I bought this Samsung Laptop a few weeks ago. Every time I put my laptop to sleep and then start it up again, my screen becomes VERY dark. I can barely see anything. I don't know if its my screen problem but is there any way to fix this? It's annoying...The only way to get it back to normal is...

i have a samsung NP-R540-JT02ES laptop the hardrive failed so i put a new one in and installed Windows 7 ultimate then let windows update everything etc plus i downloaded some drivers from samsung for my model, when i boot without the power cord connected the brightness is always half until i...