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In this WindowsForum thread, the original poster experienced the absence of the "dim the display" option after installing Windows 7 on a Lenovo G530, despite attempting driver and BIOS updates. A suggested workaround—using sleep mode—was confirmed to work, but later comments clarified that the missing feature is intentional behavior in Windows 7, aimed at making the system resemble mobile devices. Overall, the discussion concludes that the lack of display dimming options is by design rather than a fault, and a user shared a solution for those seeking similar functionality.

cramis1

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Hi, I just installed windows 7 on my laptop and the power options page doesn't display a "dim the display" option, nor do the keyboard commands to dim the display do anything. Is there a way to fix this?

I am running a Lenovo G530 machine and there does not seem to be driver support for windows 7 on their support page. However I downloaded the mobile Intel 45 chipset graphics driver for windows 7 and I downloaded the newest bios update; nether seemed to solve the problem.

Thanks,
Marc
 

Solution
Some folks in Neowin pointed out that this is intended behavior. Their article is here, and they reference this page of release notes. It appears this is to make Windows more like mobile devices.

CmdrKeene

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Some folks in Neowin pointed out that this is intended behavior. Their article is here, and they reference this page of release notes. It appears this is to make Windows more like mobile devices.
 

Solution

davidhk129

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In case you are not aware of........
That question was posted on 2009.
The date is shown at the end of each post.
 

CmdrKeene

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yup I saw. But I registered a new account any way so I could reply with a solution in case someone else finds this via google like me.