Harry asks:
I’m looking for an app or software that lets me override the brightness level on my laptop. I want it to be LOWER than the default setting.
7 Answers -
Jack Cola
July 7, 2010Hi Harry,
There should be a keyboard shortcut on your laptop that does this for you.
You should see that some keys have other images or symbols on it that are blue. Some of these keys include turning brightness and volume up and down, hibernate, turn the wireless on and off, lock the mousepad, switch to an external display.
On your laptop, find a key (usually one of the F keys or possible the arrow keys) and also find the FN key which is usually bottom left near shift, control and alt.
What you have to do is press these keys together, or old the FN key and repeatedly press the other key. If you press the right key, you should be able to see the brightness go down. If you press the wrong key and you don’t know what happened, press it again as chances are you will turn it back off (or on if it was off)
Let me know if you have done it
Hi Jack,
Thanks for the reply. I’m well aware of changing the brightness by using the keyboard. Maybe i didnt explain it clear enough. What i was tryin to ask was if there are any programs/tweaks that can LOWER the brightness of my laptop when the brightness is already at its lowest. I find it still too bright.
Thanks
July 7, 2010Sorry, I am not sure of any. I would suggest telling us what video/graphics card you have so others might help you out and do a Google search on that and ‘laptop brightness’.
I am sure there is something out there, but I haven’t used needed to use any.
Also, try adjusting your power properties in control panel. That may work.
July 8, 2010Saikat Basu
July 8, 2010Some graphics cards like NVdia come with their own tool panel. Does your card have one? Some freewares exist, but I am not sure if they go below the default levels as set by the graphics card. You can try them out – Desktop Lighter is one.Also you can give F.lux a try.
Hari623
July 8, 2010thanks for the comment guys. but i still cant find a solution to the problem.
my vid card is NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M.
Anonymous
July 14, 2010Most laptops come with their own shortcut keys for modifying the screen brightness. On most Dell Laptops, this is the “Fn” key + Up/Down arrows to change the brightness. Use similar combinations to see if that works. In case it doesn’t, and if you are running Windows Vista/7, you could go to power options and tweak the brightness settings to your desire. Click on Start > Run and type powercfg.cpl You will find screeen brightness at the bottom of the screen.
Another solution that worked for me (although I think this was just a one-off thing), would be to boot into a linux distro like Ubuntu, and setting the brightness to its lowest. Then reboot into Windows and the low brightness should stay. Again, there’s no guarantee this might work. It did for me, and might just be a bug in Ubuntu or something.
Jetmar689
September 7, 2010thank you abhigyan,you teach me how to change brightness of screen with window 7
Me
October 21, 2011Any idea how to change the brightness if the keyboard doesn’t work???
Go into Control Panel –> Power Options and in there, there should be an option to adjust brightness – i think it would be in your power saving mode.
October 22, 2011Syuraih Abdullah
April 3, 2012hey harry , I’ve just solved the problem of mine by adjusting it through primary graphic card which is intel hd graphic(i use Nvidia for gaming(ASUS) ) .. should work on u also..