Windows 7 – Display Brightness Problem
I haven’t posted for a while as I was going to do a post detailing how I installed Mac OSX on my NC10 netbook, but I am going to re-install both Windows 7 and OSX in the near future, this time with the help of a new slimline external DVD-RW, so I will detail what I do this new time I re-install them. I was having a problem with controlling the display brightness in Windows 7, according to the document that can be downloaded from Microsoft at – there should be Brightness slider in both the Windows Mobility Center (Shortcut – Windows Key+X, or my right clicking the power icon in the system tray) and the Power Options (reached from either by the Controls panel – Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Power Options, or by right clicking on the power icon in the system tray). However it was not present on my system, in fact not of the controls were listed. I have the Vista version of Samsung’s ‘Easy Display Manager’ installed and this is supposed to enable keyboard hotkeys etc. Well thedisplay brightness keys were only working sporadically, and generally when plugged into the AC power supply. A quick search around the web revealed little but did see mentions of there possibly being controls in the BIOS to control brightness, So after rebooting my machine, I hit F2 to enter the BIOS and switched to the Boot options and saw the following:- So I toggled the Brightness Mode Control to User Control, by hitting F6 to give the following screen:- I saved the BIOS settings and booted back up to Windows 7, and the shortcut keys on my keyboard to control brightness worked like a dream, however I still could not find the controls in the Windows Mobility Center, or in the Power Options. I will continue to pursue this though and hopefully write a new post with the updates. Like this: Like Loading... ~ by Phil on March 20, 2009. Posted in , , , Tags: , , , , , ,
