How do I lower the brightness of my Sony Vaio laptop screen?
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Hold down your Fn key. Now click on F5. Use your arrow keys to adjust. Go quickly,  as they do not provide much time to make your changes.
159603
Try holding "FN" and keys from F6 to F8 - It will lighten or darken the screen, keys may be different pending on the notebook.
1004569
If you have access to Windows Media Player 9.0 (for Windows 98 SE, Windows Millennium Edition, and Windows 2000), you can lighten an AVI video that is too dark by doing the following:\n\n1. Open the video in Windows Media Player.\n\n2. While the video is playing go to the top of Windows Media Player and choose "View".\n\n3. Then choose "Enhancements".\n\n4. Then choose "Video Settings", which allows you to adjust the brightness and other video settings like contrast.\n\n* Note this may also work in later versions of Windows Media Player like 10 and 11 Beta as well.\n\nAnd as of 6-29-2006, here are some helpful links:\n\nWindows Media Player 9.0 Weblink:\nhttp://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/9series/default.aspx\n\nWindows Media Player General Weblink:\nhttp://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/default.mspx\n\nWindows Media Player 10 and Windows Media Player 11 Beta Weblink:\nhttp://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/11/default.aspx\n\nGood Luck!
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You should already use the whole screen.Try using F11.\n\nEDIT: Increase the resolution or if it appears black on each side mess with the settings like where the power button is. The setting would have something to do the the Horizontal Position.
528594
The monitor light is going to fail soon. You have to replace it. It costs like $800 to replace it.\n\nThere is a tiny little button that the monitor presses to turn the monitor light off when its in standby or when you close the laptop cover. That might be busted. If it is, that will be a cheap fix.\n\nOtherwise, the monitor light is going bad and thats pretty steep.
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disconect the monitor cable from the video card and look at the pins....make sure one didn't get bent. it's way easy to bend one and it will usually throw off the color or brighrness. if thats ok, try adjusting the brightness and contrast on the monitor.
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I would try to hook it up to an external monitor and see if it works normally. If it does, I'd guess the backlight is out, which is located at the bottom of the LCD panel. Not many repair shops know how to repair such a thing. Usually when the inverter goes out, you can still see a dim image.\n\nhttp://www.screentekinc.com sales laptop screens and has removal instructions on their site as well. The manufacturer will over charge you for the screem, if you do need one and you're no longer under warranty.\n\nGood luck.
426144
try adjusting the contrast to the maximum value, then adjusting the brightness. then adjusting the gamma to get the best picture
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If you have it set to the highest level of brightness on the monitor and it still isn't bright enough you likely have a failing monitor. I have had the same problem before but there wasn't anything I could do. You can also see if there is a reset option but I don't think it will help.
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Double click the My Computer icon on your desktop and select Control Panel. Then select Appearance and Themes. This should open a small window with tabs across the top. Select Display and in the Colour box, choose the highest setting from the dropdown. That should do it unless you have a really old machine or monitor or an ancient version of Windows. If you're really stuck, press F1 button on keyboard for the Help menu.
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Dim the screen. That's probably the biggest power  user.
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highlighting and lowlighting
406149
Update your graphic card software, there should be a screen rotation option you can turn the display up side down.
943831
There could be some adjustment in your graphics card that could attribute to this.  I know a lot of modern laptops have brightness adjustments.  The other thing it could be which makes more sense is the backlight in your LCD has gone bad.  If that is the case you would still see stuff but it would be really dim.  It happens and if it's under warrenty try to get it replaced.  Sometimes though some companies don't have backlight warrenties but LCD warrenty.....
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If you look at your monitor (assuming here that it is a desktop), there should be an area on the bottom that brings up settings for it.  Not just the brightness tab, but look under the contrast as well.  Oh and don't forget to look at the user settings as sometimes those have an effect as well.
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Have you tried adjusting the brightness? There are buttons on your monitor. There should be one for exit, one for selection and two for scrolling. click the selection button, then use the scroll buttons to reach the thing that looks like a sun.. click the selection button again and then click the scroll button to move it brighter. then click the exit button. you may also have a dying monitor. is it a crt (fat bulky one) or an lcd (flat panel) one
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Your monitor probably has buttons on the front of it for controling the brightness and contrast, and it sounds like those buttons are starting to wear out and "push" themselves. You could take it to a computer shop and get it fixed (they can replace the buttons), but if it's an old monitor, you're probably better off getting a new one.