brightness

Hi, I was wondering if someone could help me with a display problem (or at least tell me what might be going on). I just bought a Acer S231HL LCD monitor for my desktop (Gateway SX2850-01). When attached with the VGA cable, the colors look fine. The blacks are deep and the colors bright...

Hello guys,I'm having some trouble with my sony vaio and I was wondering if you could help me My "Fn" keys do not work properly.When I use them to change the sound of my laptop there is no problem(Except for not showing the sound bar,it just lowers the sound.),but when I try changing the...

Hi there, I have changed all the settings under display to ensure that when my laptop is unplugged, the brightness is always on full, I can visibly see this in the settings. I have had this set-up on previous installations of Windows 7, but this time when I installed, it seems to ignore my...

Hola Win7 world! For some reason, I have a problem with my computer's display brightness. Sometimes whenever I start up the computer, or change to another's profile (either the admin who is me or the other two normal users I have), the brightness goes a little dimmer. All three of us are used...

I dimmed my screen as much as possible. however, its still too bright for me. is there a way/program to dim it even more? help would be appreciated!

Can anyone give me any idea on what may be causing my monitor brightness to visibly drop just after logging into windows. This does not happen every time and when it does, rebooting often 'fixes' it. I have checked all the monitor connections at both ends.

Aaaargh. Is there any way to change these keys so that I can use them for their intended purpose when I am working in programs like Excel? I don't even appear to be using the right term as my Win Explorer comes up blank . . . is there a fix that doesn't take a geek to understand? Cuz I'm not...

Hi Occasionally when I boot up my PC (Windows 7 Pro SP1), the screen is dulled but the mouse pointer (arrow) is very bright. When it's like this, if I open an application the text and the caret pointer are very dull and difficult to read. The situation doesn't change if I try a different...

I can no longer enable my alps pointing device (touch pad) on my Satellite laptop. The Fn butting does not adjust my screen brightness, or reactivate my mousepad. it does however work for the calc etc. Any suggestions? thanks ahead of time, Dani

Hi everyone! I am new in this forum, but looks like here have really interesting information about Windows 7. So I really like windows 7, I will stay and this forum. And thanks all for great work. So about the problem: I have Dell Latitude XT and Windows 7 installed on it. When PC is a/c...

I have a samsung N150 plus windows 7 laptop... been over 3 months since i got this new one! and i haven't been able to reduce the brightness of the screen a BIT!! at all..! which inturn is eating up my battery! :mad: this started happening couple of weeks back.. i tried everything like...

Hi, I recently purchased my HP Pavillion dv5 laptop, and it has windows 7. I have another Windows 7 laptop as well. However on this laptop, whenever I press the f1 button, the help menu appears. The f2, screen dims, f3 screen brightens, so on and so forth. This woulden't be much of a problem...

Hi all, I am experiencing a very strange problem and I have no idea how to fix it. After my laptop has been on for about an hour or so (the amount of time varies), everything stops working, in the sense that I lose my wireless internet connection, I cant do anything with the task manager, I...

Hi, I was wondering if there was any way I could change the PgUp/PgDn buttons on the side of my laptop into VolumeUp/VolumeDown buttons since I never use them. I really don't like having to press the Fn+F11/F12 to change the volume since it is a combination and the two buttons are really far...

Hi All, I have a problem with my On Screen Display in that, i.e.when i tap the wireless card button on /off or press 2nd function key and F8 to mute/unmute, i no longer get the small OSD that shows quickly over the top of whatever is open to notify you of your hardware/applications controls...

I use Windows 7 Home Premium, 32-bit OS on a Lenovo G530 (so I'm having enough issues with my screen brightness, too). About a week ago my computer's anti-virus security program, Avast, started detecting possible infections but when I went to take care of them, the program wouldn't do...

Hello everyone, Recently my mom gave me a laptop which is an Acer Aspire 5570z and it came with Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit. its an older computer but she didn't want it! and well... I did. I noticed the screen brightness flickers a lot and its annoying and also inter fears with my...

Hi I have a problem with display brightness on my laptop. First I would like to say that I'm not a newbie, I've tried pretty much everything to solve this problem and I ran out of ideas.. So, the problem is that when using my laptop (no matter what power plan is active), my display goes dim...

hi all, ok, im using an EMACHINES E525, & im dual-booting with Win7 & ubuntu-linux, & my question is this: my laptop has a blue 'fn' key which can be used with another key to brighten/dim the display, however, i cannot get it to work, ive looked all over the net & i just cant seem to find...

I have two Machines (laptops) Both running Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit First Machine, One I can go to Control Panel > Display > Adjust Brightness First machine, has been running Windows 7 for few months. Second Machine, If I do the same steps, I can not find Adjust Brightness...