How To Adjust Screen Brightness In Windows 10

How To Adjust Screen Brightness In Windows 10

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You probably need to change your screen brightness regularly. When it’s bright outside, you want to turn it up so you can see. When you’re in a dark room, you’ll want it dim so it doesn’t hurt your eyes. Decreasing your screen brightness will also help save you power and increase your laptop’s battery life.

Aside from manually changing the screen brightness, you can have Windows change it automatically in a variety of ways. Windows can change it based on whether you’re plugged in, based on how much battery power you have left, or using an ambient light sensor built into many modern devices.

How to Adjust Brightness Manually on a Laptop or Tablet
On most laptop keyboards, you’ll find shortcut keys that allow you to quickly increase and decrease your brightness. Often, these keys are part of the row of F-keys–that’s F1 through F12–that appear above the number row on your keyboard. To adjust the screen brightness, look for an icon that corresponds to brightness–often a sun logo or something similar–and press the keys.

These are often function keys, which means you may have to press and hold the Fn key on your keyboard, often located near the bottom-left corner of your keyboard, while you press them.

You can also adjust the display brightness from within Windows as well. This is especially helpful if your keyboard doesn’t have these keys, or if you’re using a tablet and you have to do it within software.

On Windows 10, you can click the battery icon in the notification area and click the brightness tile that appears. This adjusts the brightness in increments of 25% each time you tap it. You can also swipe in from the right or open the Action Center from your system tray and use the quick settings tile there.

You’ll find this option in the Settings app on Windows 10, too. Open the Settings app from your Start menu or Start screen, select “System,” and select “Display.” Click or tap and drag the “Adjust brightness level” slider to change the brightness level.

If you’re using Windows 7 or 8, and don’t have a Settings app, this option available in the Control Panel. Open the Control Panel, select “Hardware and Sound,” and select “Power Options.” You’ll see a “Screen brightness” slider at the bottom of the Power Plans window.

You’ll also see this option in the Windows Mobility Center. Launch it by right-clicking the Start button on Windows 10 and 8.1 and selecting “Mobility Center,” or pressing the Windows key + X on Windows 7. Change the “Display brightness” slider in the window that appears.

How to Adjust Brightness Manually on an External Display

Most of the methods in this tutorial are designed for laptops, tablets, and all-in-one PCs. However, if you’re using a desktop PC with an external display–or even connecting an external display to a laptop or tablet–you’ll need to adjust his setting on the external display itself, and you usually won’t be able to do it automatically.

Look for “brightness” buttons on the display and use them to adjust the display brightness. You may instead need to press some sort of “Menu” or “Options” button before you can access an on-screen display that will allow you to increase or decrease the brightness. You’ll often find these buttons near the power button on a computer monitor. With some monitors, you may also be able to adjust your screen’s brightness with an app like ScreenBright or Display Tuner, though they won’t work with all monitors.

How to Automatically Adjust Brightness When You’re Plugged In

You can set different display brightness levels on your laptop or tablet based on whether or not you’re plugged into an outlet or not. For example, you could have it set to a high brightness level when you’re plugged in, and a lower one when you’re on battery power. Windows would then automatically adjust your brightness.

To adjust this, open the Control Panel. Select “Hardware and Sound,” select “Power Options,” and click the “Change plan settings” link next to the power plan you’re using. You’re probably using the Balanced power plan.

Configure different screen brightness levels for “On battery” and “Plugged in” under “Adjust plan brightness.” This setting is tied to your power plan. You can configure different screen brightness levels for different power plans and switch between them if you choose.

This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops,and tablets running the Windows 10 operating system (Home, Professional, Enterprise, Education) from all supported hardware manufactures, like Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba,Lenovo, and Samsung).

[jonathanpak]

why do they always have to keep making different ways to do something so simple.. windows 10 is so frustrating for no reason

[samo]

Where in this video do you actually demonstrate changing the brightness? None of the options discussed in appear or apply to me. I can't believe I'm watching videos to learn how to adjust my brightness and I still can't do it. The brightness is all the way up right now and is killing my eyes right now. I can't stop it! I need sunglasses! MY EYES ARE BURNING! HELP!

[nekotabbie]

There isn't an option for this on Windows 10 PCs, only laptops >:(

[fovos]

whats so hard on adding a brightness adjustment on pc's?

[notimeforyou]

This should be so easy yet im one minute into the video and still havent learned anything

[darthrevin]

There's no brightness option in the advanced display settings.

[susanaflint]

Thank you! As a 63 year old not tech savy grandmother I need all the help I can get and I need it to be simple and to the point. Thank you so much.

[scqidjq]

thanks so much bro, I was tryna play on my pc without having to charge it to make the brightness go up, again thanks bro

[edutuoy]

just by the sound of your voice tells me you wear glasses

[cutiepie]

Do you know how i can adjust the brightness through the brightness button on my laptop? Is not working. Is there a setting that needs to be changed?

[rlcsvk]

i found that i does have an "Electric bulb +" and "Electric bulb -" icons under Page Up and Page Down keys respectivally on my keyboard

[nathanle]

Windows 10 has to have one of the worse platforms they make everything so difficult

[bbqchickenlife]

Halfway through your video. thank you for finally showing us!!!!

[marissatucker]

Thank you so much, every time I want to do something on my computer I have to squint my eyes because it’s so bright and I just got the computer in my room so I don’t know much about it.

[Nerox]

i need help my brightness no matter i do its not change its always dark please help i cant see anything

[khooldeud]

for the people using a pc and cant change their brightness, check the buttons under your monitor. There is most likely a button that says MENU and maybe u can change ur brightness from there. It worked for me :D

[clockspeed]

This is why I play horror games on pc one, they are way more good two, they are usually dark

[joshkanyinda]

Hello, I have a quick accident. I accidentally set my computer brightness to 0 and I could find the brightness on my keyboard so I reset the computer. I later notice even the login screen was effected. Is there a way to fix this?

[faster]

got new monitors that used hdr was trying to figure this out for hours. turns out i needed to turn off hdr and use the buttons on the monitor to manually adjust the brightness. hope this helps someone

[beatfreak]

My eyes hurt much less now, thank you a lot for this tutorial