brightness

Hi I have been looking for a Media player that will play my files and have tried many...perhaps that is the problem, because despite uninstalling all tried programs a videoplayer such as Gom (or any player) displays a very dark picture requiring me to set brightness to max.... I have had a...

I have a dell lap top that came with vista. If i was running on batteries the screen was dimmer to save power but I could go to control pannel and overide that setting to have a screen as bright as one using AC. I installed W7 last month and now find it impossible to get a "bright" screen with...

How do you change brightness on desktop screen?:eek:

The past couple of days, I've felt like my backlight on my display has been dim, and I know it's Win7 because I had Vista before & never had this issue. Anyway, I was randomly poking around and found the 'Calibrate Display Color' icon on the Control Panel. Once I tweaked that, it looks...

Hi, I have new Sony CW laptop running Windows 7 (64-bit) with an Nvidia GeForce GT 230m graphics card. The tiny problem I have is that I can't adjust the video settings (colour/contrast/brightness etc.) in Windows Media Player 12 as I am used to being able to do in previous versions. I use...

Hi, I have a toshiba satellite a350-13d laptop with windows 7 32 bit installed on it. All of a sudden, my brightness slider is gone, while it was there before when I clicked the battery in the bottom right corner and chose "change screen brightness" or something alike (I have the Dutch version...

I've searched several forums, but can't find an answer, so I'll ask here. I like the auto-dim feature in Windows 7 when the computer is idle, however I'd like it to dim more than it does. I can adjust the brightness while I'm using it, but I can't find a setting to allow me adjust the level...

:confused: Just bought a brand new Lenovo ThinkPad W500 with Windows 7 64 bit, found I couldn't adjust the screen brightness. When press the Fn key for adjustment, the sun logo for brightness will display on the screen, and the bars which show the brightness extent will increase or decrease...

I just installed Windows 7 Pro on an HP Pavillion with an HP w2007 20" monitor. I had no color issues initially and everything worked fine. The first time I ran Windows Update, it included an optional update called "HP- Display - HP w2007 Wide LCD Monitor". That update "failed" to install and...

After I upgraded to Windows 7, I now can't get the FN button working which caused the lost of many features such as reducing the brightness and increasing the sound volume. :confused::confused: Please give me specific links as to where to download these utilities, i've been circling around...

Hi, I did a clean install of Windows 7 64-Bit a few days ago and since then i have been having issues with the screen brightness. When i turn the laptop on the default screen brightness on the 'Balanced' option is about halfway up, however when i try and move this up on the screen...

Im sure this has been a common problem, however this is what i noticed: After I installed Windows 7 home premuim, I proceeded to reinstall a few of my apps (navyfield, ventrilo, teamspeak, and firefox). every thing worked fine except for one freeze :S I then got to dorm room and tried to...

Hi all my laptop is a Compaq Pressario V6700 Laptop with the Nvidia nForce 610M - 7150M (i think) now ive tried win7's factory drivers, HP's drivers (7.15.11.7713 and 7.15.11.7432 Versions) and tried Nvidia's drivers which couldn't install wats so ever... The Problem - after having installed...

functions as in the Fn key on my laptop to adjust screen brightness/volume/other things. I just installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit on my Sony Vaio VGN CS-290. I originally was running Vista Home Premium 64bit without issues. I did a quick forum search but didn't find anything on it, so I...

ok so ever since i installed windows 7 ive had a few problems most of them ive worked out i did a clean install of windows 7 professional from vista home premium as most of you know i wasnt able to just upgrade but i notice that my battery life is terrible...worse than when i had vista after...

I just did a clean install of W7 Ultimate Signature Edition 64. Dell Insipron E1505 T7200 2GB with ATI X1300. The display setting (brightness) is working in reverse. When I plug in the power cord it goes dim, unplug and it goes bright. ALL settings I have changed to run 100% brighness no...

Alright, its an ancient laptop, but with a bit of luck (and pleasantly to my surprise), Vista actually installed on it. However, after getting around the initial celebration, I noticed that there were a couple of MASSIVE problems :'( 1. For some reason, I can't increase or decrease the screen...

Hi everybody ! First, sorry for my english but i come from belgium :) I have a W7 Pro & a HP 6730s. My W7 works fine but there's just one annoying problem, when i'm trying to adjust display brightness, (with FN + F7 ; FN + F8) nothing happens. I installed the last driver (Intel graphics media...

Brightness/gamma and PB problem. It works under windows 7 by Numbers 1-5 is the fix for PB kick. Number 6 is the fix for brightness/Gamma problem. 1. Have PB updated. 2. Have pnk's .exe under C:\Windows to run as Administrator. 3. Have pnk's .exe under C:\Windows set to vista compatibility 4...

So I just installed Windows 7 and I'm having some trouble with my screen brightness. I installed the OS with the screen brightness turned all the way down when plugged in. Now this is the maximum screen brightness the screen with go to with the machine plugged in. When I unplug however the...