brightness

Installed Windows 7 last week and realized that unless the laptop is plugged in, I cannot read the display. It looks almost like it's brightness/contrast gets put on the highest level and I cannot make anything out. Sometimes it will fade back to correct if I don't have any programs running...

Hey all I'm having a majorly annoying problem Every day or two, Windows 7 is REVERSE dimming on me and I can only fix it with a reboot. What I mean is, suddenly when the AC Adapter is PLUGGED IN, the screen will be DIM (Even though control panel shows it as max brightness on the slider). But...

when ever my laptop comes unpluged the screen goes so bright it whites every thing out cant see any thing well can use high contrast but thats bull its fine pluged in . has any one else had the same proublem?

Hello everyone! Let me first say before I explain the problem that I have installed the latest drivers, reinstalled the program, and all that jazz and the problem still persists. Pretty much when I minimize or exit from a game I play called EVE Online, my LCD remains really dark. Kind of as if...

I have an issue with Windows 7 changing the color/contrast/brightness of images set as a background. These images have the correct color/brightness when viewed by any other means (Windows Image Viewer, GIMP, FF, IE8), however, when they are set as a background it appears the brightness of the...

For some reason all my gamma/brightness/contrast settings never apply to games, only the desktop, everytime i start a game the settings revert back to default making all my games way too bright. Ive tried changing the gamma in the calibration menu and the nvidia control panel to no avail. anyone...

I have a Toshiba Satellite L305-S5908 laptop with a Mobile Intel(R) 45 Express Chipset Family (Microsoft Corporation - Prerelease WDDM 1.1) graphics card. When trying to adjust display brightness, nothing happens. Anyone else experiencing the same problem?

I have it set to dim the screen after 3 min and turn off the screen after 5 min. Once the 5 min mark has passed the screen shuts off (properly) but when it turns back on the screen is still dim. THEN when I go to manually turn it up, using the "Adjust screen Brightness" option on the toolbar it...

Just installed RC 7100. I know its early days but i was wondering if anyone had ideas about the following. The processor is running at full speed all the time when plugged in, the speedstep is not working. The Screen is at full brightness all the time, the function keys or the slider in...

I have a Sony Vaio VGN-AW190 that originally came with Vista Home 64bit. I installed Windows 7 (clean install) 64bit. The problem is the special buttons are not working at all (eject, S1, S2, multimedia, AV Mode, onscreen display such as when you adjust volume or brightness), etc. I did install...

How to change color, contrast, brightness and other setting in Windows 7? In Windows XP it quite easy to change these settings. The control panel has left me befuddled. Please help.

I am running windows7 in dell vostro 1400 portable machine, everything is ok except for brightness under battery use. the screen is very dark and all configurations under battery usage are made to brightness full. By now is not possible to use windows 7 under battery option in portable