How to increase the brightness on your laptop yourself

Few of the owners of laptops take full advantage of the capabilities of the device, incorporated into it by the developer. And this applies not only to newcomers who have just bought their first portable computer, but also users with experience. Quite often, both those and others just do not know how to increase the brightness on the laptop. Therefore, the entire period of operation of the device operates in the "default" mode, sometimes not too optimal. In fact, there is a solution, so setting up a laptop monitor does not cause any difficulties.

Magic Button

Surprisingly, many laptop owners do not even suspect why additional keyboard buttons and "extra" characters are needed on some keys. As a result, there are quite amusing situations. For example, one day a laptop owner asked the service center to repair the touchpad (an alternative to a mouse in portable models). For more than a year there was no need for this small panel, since the classic mouse was used. When it became necessary to work with the touchpad, it turned out that he did not react in any way. Man not only installed drivers, but also installed new operating systems. All to no avail. Of course, he also did not know, and how to increase the brightness on the laptop. I managed to restore my work in a few seconds. To do this, they just needed those buttons, the purpose of which was unknown to the user.

How to increase the brightness on a laptop

There are several ways to solve this problem. But you can not adjust the brightness of the monitor in the same way as in a personal computer, because there are no separate buttons for correction.

So, the very first method is purely "laptop". If you look closely at the keyboard of the device, then to the left in the bottom corner you can see the button with the designation Fn. Usually, the color of the letters is distinguished from the rest of the notation (for example, blue). The same color indicates some characters on other buttons, including system buttons. Further everything is simple: to make the screen brighter or darker, you should press Fn and, holding it, the key with the designation of the sun. Light - to increase, painted - to lower.

The changes made work in all modes, including the BIOS window. This method of adjustment does not require any drivers.

Sometimes users are asked how to increase the brightness on the laptop in another way? One of the easiest is to use a special program for managing energy saving modes. It comes on a disk with many laptop models. After installation it is necessary to open the menu of its settings (right-click - PCM - by the corresponding icon located next to the system clock) and adjust the brightness.

It is also possible to control the intensity of the glow by means of a video card driver. It is necessary to proceed to the settings (PCM on an empty part of the desktop), then "Graphic characteristics" (for Intel cards), Catalyst Control Center (for AMD) or "Control Panel" (for Nvidia). In the window that appears, select the desired item.

The third method involves the use of third-party programs. For example, Power Strip.