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**John**

BillW50 wrote:
On 5/29/2010 6:09 AM, Han wrote:
Hi guys,

I'm tagging this reply on to Bill's because his is the last in the
thread at the moment. First of all, let me say AARRGGHH!!! -
because Ben was right! It was just a matter of altering the
brightness by the key combination of Fn and right arrow key to
increase it (left arrow to decrease). All that time, money and
effort spent and I needn't have done any of it.

Ah well, such is life. I've learned a good lesson today )

Now, to try and justify my position and recover a bit of
self-esteem, I can say in my defence, your honour, that (a) I had
no idea about that key combination (b) there's an Intel graphics
utility installed and within that there are sliders for
brightness, contrast, colour and gamma - but altering the
brightness slider there does _not_ have the same effect at all as
the key combination, which is why I continued thinking something
was faulty and (c) I've never knowingly altered the brightness at
all anyway. It's always been perfect at the default setting and
I've had it about 3 years. It's a complete mystery as to how the
brightness was turned down in
the first place and, like I said, I didn't know about the key
combinations, but it's all sorted now so a big 'thank you' to all
you guys, especially Ben.

Cheers
John

Thanks for the thread, John, Ben& Bill. My Aspire 3680 uses the
control right/left arrow combo too. So much easier than going
through theexpl utility.

I meant the FUNCTION right/left arrow combo.

Well the bright side is you have spare parts now. I personally love
having spare parts myself. ;-)

Love it Bill

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