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...
battery life
control panel
dell laptop
display settings
high performance
power management
screen brightness
troubleshooting
vistacomplications
windows 7
