How do I turn down my monitor’s brightness?
QSince a Windows 10 update my monitor is eye-hurtingly bright. I’ve tried all sorts of online suggestions to reduce it but with no success. I don’t know whether I was able to adjust the brightness before because it’s always been fine, so I had no reason to try. I’ve tried the Function (Fn) key with the F5 and F6 keys, and looked for a slider in Action Centre – which doesn’t seem to exist. I’ve updated various drivers, including the video driver. However, as it was OK before I don’t think drivers are the problem. The computer is a Sony VGCLV1S running 32bit Windows 10.
AJust because a driver worked before a Windows 10 update doesn’t mean that update hasn’t broken something. Your PC dates back to 2008, so the chance of updated drivers from Sony is nil.
Regardless, there might be other solutions. Yours is an early all-in-one PC, with some physical hardware controls. Have you tried these? The manual, which we found at www. snipca.com/37142, tells us that they’re hidden on the right side of the display – so you might not have been aware of them. Press the Menu button and then use the Up, Down and OK buttons to navigate through the on-screen menu to find and then adjust the Brightness and Contrast options (see screenshot 1 ).
We think that might be the simple fix for your problem. But, if not, all hope is not lost. We’d suggest installing the f.lux app, a free download from www.justgetflux.com.
It won’t adjust the physical brightness but it is able to manage your monitor’s colour ‘temperature’: dragging the f.lux slider to create ‘warmer’ shades 2 can have the effect of making a screen appear less bright.