Dimming monitor
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Dimming monitor
By default on windows XP if you put your laptop on battery the monitor dims a little (to save energy I suppose). How do I stop this?
- feyd
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If in a control panel, it should be in your display adapter's controls. If it's not there, I can't recall of any easily accessible location to alter that setting. With my laptop it's in the hardware. However, I can adjust the brightness via keyboard controls. The settings are separately kept as far as I can tell on mine.


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I'm not on my laptop right now, so the path may be incorrent, but I know it is in Power Management. I know all too well, seeing as my latptop has yet to get the power settings right (dims when it is plugged in and brights when it is on battery). No matter how often I change the settings, they always get wonked and go back to backwards.
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Holy crap, I was way off.
The way you change this (if XP works right) is to manually adjust the brightness of the monitor when the plug is not attached. On my computer it's the [fn]+f8 key combination. I am not sure which it is on yours. The way XP is supposed to work is that when you adjust the settings XP remembers it until you change it again.
I am so sorry for the bad advice. I was thinking of something totally different. Thanks Feyd for setting me straight. Again, sorry about that.
The way you change this (if XP works right) is to manually adjust the brightness of the monitor when the plug is not attached. On my computer it's the [fn]+f8 key combination. I am not sure which it is on yours. The way XP is supposed to work is that when you adjust the settings XP remembers it until you change it again.
I am so sorry for the bad advice. I was thinking of something totally different. Thanks Feyd for setting me straight. Again, sorry about that.
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