laptop brightness question

You might need to get a extra utility from the OEM in order to adjust the auto-dimming manually. This si the case with Toshiba, at least (had to do that anyway for mine since I put XP on it, and Toshiba only provides the brightness adjust hotkey support for Vista).

i have dell XPS m1530 laptop and when i unplug it is the same thing....Do you have an Fn Key that is next to the window's key? if so hold that down and press the arrow key upwards a few times and see if the brightness increases.  that is what is for me...hope it helps!!!  let me know if it does

If you don't have the key option (and you should as noted above), input Studio model at Dell site and search for "QuickSet"

Hi Solam.  I have a Dell laptop with Vista and this is how I would do it so it should work for you.

Right click your desktop and click Personalize (Was Display Properties in XP days).

Now select Screen Saver.

At the bottom of this new window should be a Power management section, select 'Change power settings..'.

Now you will have some power setting plans that come with your laptop.  You can go straight here from Power Options in control panel btw.  You can change your currently selected one or change to another plan and change that.  When you have selected your plan next click 'Change plan settings' for the relevant plan.

Under this new window you will have sleep and display turn off settings, what you are looking for is 'Change advanced power settings'.

Now you have a tree list view of settings, you are looking for 'LED Intensity' that is under 'Additional settings' on my plan.  Under 'LED Intensity' change the 'On battery' settings to 'Maximum'.

I hope you have similar settings and this helps you out.  Changing this will have 2 disadvantages, your battery life will decrease and secondly you wont know your laptop is accidently unplugged until it shuts down!

Solam,

Phalnax811 is correct.  Every dell notebook I've ever owned has had a FN (function key).....the FN on this key is usually BLUE/PURPLE and any "function" that you can toggle is also printed in the same colour on your keyboard.

As Phalnax has stated, there should be "brightness up/down" function keys somewhere on your keyboard (usually the arrow keys, or around that area).  So you'll need to hold down the FN key and then tap the brightness UP key untill it's all the way bright!

He must not check the forums too much...even though he posted it today haha

Thanks for all the answers guys.

It's true I was out all day today. My Eldest Daughter had a Handball tournament and I was out with her all day. She won by the way 4 wins 0 lost for the day. Way ST-Francois School !!!!

The Function key did it for me. It worked perfecly.Thanks a bunch!!!!

Your welcome.

Handball is fun!! i've only played it in gym but i scored soo much in it.  good times

My Step daughter fell in love with it. She is in fourth grade but she's about 1 foot taller than everybody else. She likes scoring LOL

haha, i bet she would be beastly in it if she is about a foot taller than everyone!! she play basketball? i'd get her started in that if i were you? haha, i love basketball:)

That's something I have to get her into.

My youngest though wants to play football. She too is very muscular at 6. And way to agressive. when she plays hockey outside the other kids ask me to keep her home because she hits them to much hehe

haha, you got some tough female kids...this is such an off topic discussion but at least the topic/question has been answered