Hi just recently downloaded Widnows 7..
When I'm operating on battery it seems as if the battery is dying really, really quickly compared to when I had Vista.
I think one of the problems is that I can't seem to dim the brightness of the screen at all. Is there a way to do this beyond the "power saver" option?
Thanks
Hello Rail,
If your laptop doesn't have a key as Ken suggested, then adjusting this setting for your current Power Plan is about the only option.
Power Plan Settings - Change
rail
If you tell us what your compute is we can look up the key combo's
Ken
I have a Toshiba Satellite L500-00W.
My friend has the same computer and can adjust the brightness using Fn and F6 or F7 but it doesn't work for me anymore now that I have Windows 7.
Rail,
It sounds like the driver that supports that feature did not get installed. I'm not certain which one it would be though.
I almost feel like it would be easier to uninstall Windows 7 and then wait until it's actually released and get it then.. Because a lot of old features got erased and I wasn't expecting that to happen.
How would I go about that?
You might check with your friend to compare notes on what drivers you each installed to see which one you missed. It should just be a matter of installing it to regain the feature. I could not find them on Toshiba's website for this model number.
I'm just a bit technologically dim so I don't know what to do when you say check your drivers...
Sorry. Each device you have installed on your motherboard will usually require a driver (software) to be installed for the device to either work properly, or use all of its features like in your case. For example, you need to install the latest drivers for the graphics chip, sound chip, touchpad, webcam, etc.....
Since you friend has the same computer, I would recommend getting together with him or her to find out what drivers he had installed so you can as well. :)
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