Setting that makes the screen dim when it's not white

Yes. I tried restarting with the monitor plugged in and without the monitor plugged in. I check all the cables on the monitor and the laptop. This is, frankly, amazingly poor quality programming from our friends in Redmond and whatever city my graphics controller company is located in -- I mean, stunningly low quality (and it's taking a ton of my time, too).

This problem just appeared out of the blue, probably after a system update, and only gets worse when I roll back. I mean -- wow! What else is there to say (I'm just venting now).

Oh, and I too can't fit a monitor in my laptop bag (though I have a new bag coming in the mail soon -- we'll see). That's why I have an extra one everywhere I work (I would prefer to use a PC with a monitor and full-size keyboard, but that seems barely possible anymore).

I'm open to more suggestions -- anything, really, that will make this work. Pleeeease help me.

OK, I was going to upgrade the drivers per a previous post, but decided to first try a trick that used to work in the fine Windows Vista -- uninstalling the driver, then rebooting like five or six times. So, after wasting half my day on MS' fine OS and AMD Radeon's fine device drivers, I am back to being able to use two monitors and, I think the original problem has gone away, too. Sheesh!

UsernameIssues said:

You don't own a computer...
...it owns you

Sad... but true.

OK, did that. Now what do you guys see?

Then I guess it worked. So we've now solved 3 (more like 2.5) problems in this thread, eh?

What do I do if I have multiple systems?