Trying to help a friend fix his laptop display. He has a toughbook, but the brightness is pretty dark and he is having trouble reading it. Typically you can just hit the FN button and adjust the brightness with one of the F keys, however it is not working on his. I cant raise it or lower it with the FN+F2/F3 key. Is there a way I can increase display brightness on a laptop in windows?

 

I'd check the power management settings first.

 

Try loading the BIOS. There may be brightness settings in there. I don't think there is any Windows=controled way of raising or lowering the screen brightness (unless the laptop comes with some software to do this.

 

look in control panel >>> display and see if he has vid card software that manages things like this. i have this on my dell

bob

 

Where are you looking, Bob? i've got a Dell Latitude D800 (Inspiron 800m) with the crappy Dell drivers, and I've got nothing like that.

 

oh, i just noticed he said "laptop". i have this management software on my dell desktop my dell laptop does not have this

bob