One of the most obvious things that can show the strain of being at your computer for a period of time is your eyes. It doesnât take a lot for a badly configured monitor or laptop screen to cause problems and put extra strain on them through having brightness or contrast settings set too high and almost burning a hole into your retina! Proper configuration and more relaxed settings can make viewing more comfortable, especially for using or working at your computer for prolonged periods of time.
Although most monitors should have some sort of buttons or touch controls to adjust these types of settings, it isnât always the case. A computer we have here, the Dell Studio One 1909 desktop, is one such system that doesnât have external controls for brightness and contrast. Laptops and netbooks also should have a dedicated Fn key combination or third party utility from the manufacturer, but if it doesnât appear to work, there is seemingly no other option to adjust the settings for your display. There is sometimes a simple option to alter the brightness via a slider in the Windows power plan, but there are other better ways to get around this problem.
Hereâs a selection of 10 different ways for you to adjust the brightness and contrast of your computer screen, as well as some other more advanced options such as the gamma and even the color temperature.
1. Desktop Lighter
Desktop Lighter lets you adjust the brightness of your screen easily and quickly. It can change the brightness level by means of clicking on the tray icon and adjusting the slider up and down, or by using keyboard hotkeys. The combination is Ctrl+< and Ctrl+> which is very similar to proprietary software and Fn key hotkeys found on many laptops. The other options available are starting with Windows, widening the slider and remembering brightness settings.
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2. iBrightness Tray
iBrightness Tray is a little bit of a swiss army knife display tool as adjusting the brightness of your screen is just one of three main functions it has. The other two are turning on your screensaver at the click of a button and also the ability to turn off the display completely. This is useful for laptop users when they want save power and switch off the screen for a period of time. Launch the portable executable and click the tray icon to popup the window where you can alter the brightness with the slider or activate the screensaver and screen off options. Right clicking the tray icon gives the extra options to start with Windows and change the default screensaver.
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3. RedShift GUI
While RedShift GUI does have a simple slider to adjust the brightness of your screen, itâs a very interesting utility because the main aim of the program is to dynamically adjust the color temperature of the display depending on the time of day. A âhotâ brighter display during the day and a more warm and slightly darker tint to the screen at night. This should make things far easier on the eyes. Simply enter the day and night temperatures in the Settings and then select your location either from your IP, town/city or type your own coordinates if you known them. Then as the sun comes up or goes down in your location, the display temperature will change to reflect it. Portable, setup installer and Linux versions are available.
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4. Gamma Panel
For users who want to change more than just the standard brightness of their display, Gamma Panel is a good tool to have a look at. In addition, it can also adjust the gamma and contrast with the added ability of allowing each of the Red, Green and Blue colors to be tweaked individually or together. Another valuable option is creating profiles which can be activated with a pre-defined hotkey, so you can setup a night profile for example, and activate it when you feel the need by pressing the key combination or from the right click tray menu. Although itâs from way back in 2002, Gamma Panel still works very nicely in Windows 7 and 8.
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5. ScreenBright
ScreenBright is a free and portable tool that can adjust the brightness, contrast, color luminance and color temperature of your display. There is a slight drawback of the program needing a DDC/CI or USB-control compatible display which not all monitors or laptop screens will have. Usage is self explanatory by adjusting the sliders and clicking Save when youâre happy with the result. ScreenBright also has support for command line arguments so you can use it in shortcuts and scripts or even setup a scheduled task to activate a setting at a certain time of day.
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You see that âUse NVidia settingsâ option?
For some weird reason (after a Windows/Driver update, I donât know for sure), after restarting my PC it reverts back to default âother apps controlâ¦â setting, is pretty annoying.
I downloaded the 4#Gamma Panel, and created a basic task on Task Scheduler that auto-run this program when Windows boot.
It works perfectly! Thanks!
(I would still like to know if anyone has ever had a similar problem, though).
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Igor7 months ago
Please try the program to change the brightness of the entire video-system âMyMonic v1.1â very comfortable
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Desktop Lighter worked for me also after the windows 10 update killed my brightness.control
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win10user1 year ago
Desktop Lighter works for me after the Windows 10 1803 update killed the brightness control. Reply
Battery endurance is still an issue, however I can at least work in the evening using the dimmer.
Youâre a genius. I have been trying to get my monitor to where I could see the text on the screen for days. Your information solved my problem.
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guest1 year ago
1. Desktop Lighter â adjusts GAMMA, not BRIGHTNESS. Has no effect on the display backlight. And the settings are not retained after waking from sleep mode. Reply
2. iBrightness Tray â download link has been broken for over 3 years. 3. Redshift â Adjusts COLOR TEMPERATURE; makes no claim to affect BRIGHTNESS. 4. Gamma panel â adjusts the amount of light which the liquid crystals in the display panel will transmit. Has no effect on display backlight. 5. Screenbright â Works, but download link has been broken for a number of years 6. f.lux â adjusts color temperature; makes no claim to affect brightness 7. Dimmer â adjusts liquid crystal OPACITY, not backlight BRIGHTNESS (version 2.0 has been âcoming soonâ for over 5 years) 8. Friendeye â adjust the COLOR, not BRIGHTNESS (has no effect on display backlight) 9. Monitor Bright â changes COLOR, not BRIGHTNESS (has no effect on display backlight) 10. Built in video driver â some have no effect on display backlight, use a watt meter to verify changes in energy usage ___________ Just to recap, the following apps DO control the backlight â ClickMonitorDDC (with hotkey support) â Screenbright
Amazing! Installed ClickMonitor after reading your post. Quite simple and straightforward.
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Alex1 year ago
Thank you!!
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Thank you sir.ClickMonitorDDC works !
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Sudipta Biswas12 months ago
Thank You very much, ClickMonitorDDC works amazing for me.
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THANKES ClickMonitorDDC works perfectly
Vetis Eren2 years ago
Thank you very much for the info and links. It saved my eyes from straining due to monitorâs brightness.
tHanks bro Desktop Lighter is superb
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Mike3 years ago
gamma panel works for me , thanks bro 10-/9/2016
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thanks mike you saved my time :)
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wheeler3 years ago
Does anyone know of a Windows program that can change the black level / brightness of a particular display in an extremely fine-grained way? For example, by inputting a decimal/floating point scaling factor? These slider bars do not give me the resolution I need for my particular application.
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You may try Free Monitor Manager. But youâll have to adjust the settings in its data files manually. Itâs easy, btw.
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David3 years ago
Gamma Panel âContrastâ adjustment did not do much for me, however lowering the Gamma setting worked great! Iâm using Win 10 on an Asus Laptop.
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One yet utility similar to ScreenBright: Free Monitor Manager. Reply
It supports multi-monitor configurations and allows to change monitor settings using global hotkeys. freemonitormanager.com
Keith G.4 years ago
I tried a bunch of these and found that only iBrightnessTray works on my Thinkpad W520. Itâs great to have that when the built-in hotkeys for screen brightness control stop working.
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How can you put f.lux in 6th position? It wipes its ass with all screen dimming softwares Iâve used. The Desktop lighter was pissing me off the most.
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HAL9000 Author4 years ago
This isnât a âtop 10â.
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I found a tool similiar to screenbright, but more easy to use: Reply
ClickMonitorDDC is a portable freeware tool to adjust brightness or contrast of a DDC compatible monitor by simply clicking a dynamic notification icon in the taskbar tray area, also supports shortcut icon command-line arguments clickmonitorddc.bplaced.net/
Mike5 years ago
Excellent topic. Iâve been searching for something like this for a while.
But no-one seems to have observed that there are two very different ways of achieving this. Most of the above work by lowering the image brightness. What is needed if you want to save power and maximise the life of your backlight is to lower the backlight power. So far, the only free one I have found that does this is iBrightness Tray. Working that way also gives a much better brightness range.
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Thanks Ray, GammaPanel works in my laptop. You are a star. May God Bless You
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Victor DiCarlo5 years ago
Gama panel does not work with windows 7. Once you reboot your pc, all settings an hotkeys are lost and it reverts to default â rather useless.
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Not sure what your problem is but Game Panel is working perfectly fine on Win 7 64-bit. Corel draw 2019 indir. Saves the profiles and hotkeys OK and they can be selected without issue on reboot. When itâs launched Game Panel reverts to the profile you used last time.
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jean6 years ago
excellent idea, thnak you very much
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the screen of my laptop is too bright inside, even with all the settings put to the minimum. Reply
I´m using F.lux on my desktop but it´s not possible to modify brightnes with it. For me RedShift seems to be the best because in one software I have F.lux functionality and brightness control.
Nikola6 years ago
For me FriendEye work best, not change the colors Reply
Thank you!
Thank you ray, I had to change brightness and contrast every day and night, by pressing these monitor buttons according to background light, These tools are very good and more than my expectationâ¦
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victorjc6 years ago
this is so awesome! my laptop wouldnât dim the brightness enough.and the lowest setting was always brighter than I always wanted it to be.Thanks very much Raymond! God bless! :-)
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Thanks posting Raymond
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ding-dong9 years ago
thanks for the great info ray :D
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Thanks Raymond for the very useful tool, on my BENQ it works perfect!!!
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roy raay9 years ago
thanks for the desktop lighter!
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Leave a ReplyHow To Make A Dell Computer Screen Brighter Way
Is there a way to make my computer screen brighter? It is a desktop, not a laptop, and it doesn't have the same power options a laptop has. If there is no way to do it, is there a program I can download that will give me the option to make the screen brighter?
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How To Make A Dell Computer Screen Brighter Acer2 Answers
The maximum brightness of a computer monitor is determined by the monitor itself. It's a physical property determined by the components (mostly backlight). Every monitor, regardless of technology, should have a brightness setting which you can manually adjust. Once that's set to 100%, you can't go brighter than that.
This means that no software will be able to help you there.
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It is related to your graphics card manufacturer, you can find the appropriate software coming with the device driver.In my case i am using an integrated Intel HD graphics card and this is a screen capture where you can adjust many options including Brightness.
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