Another way to adjust the brightness is to type Brightness in the Taskbar’s Search Field which opens up the Display Window to Brightness and Color to adjust.
Go to your desktop, right click, (another way to right-click is to press ctrl f10), press display settings, and then it should show you some sort of brightness bar.
Using the Function key with Delete and Backspace is the easiest, it can be done without looking at the keyboard – unlike trying to find the brightness keys in the long row of function keys. Sadly this Function key method is not available on the Surface Pro X.
I have windows 10 with an exterior monitor. I could not find a brightness setting to change to save my life. So my retinas burned for 30 minutes while I tried all the suggested routes, none worked. I have the Intel HD graphics driver which is supposedly the most up to date one. If I go to control panel> Intel HD Graphics Control Panel > Color Settings (really?)> there is a brightness setting there which is maybe just the brightness of colors so it sort of helped? Also using night mode. It’s too stupid for words I don’t have a normal brightness adjust setting anywhere. Up to date my a–
17 Responses to “How to change brightness in Windows 10”
Fn+Del/Backspace was helpful
Very good tips, very informative, good job guys. thank you
for the awesome help!
WS Monitor Controls
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/ws-monitor-controls/9mzx4mf014qk?rtc=2&activetab=pivot:overviewtab
The monitor buttons on your Windows desktop. IF your monitor co-operates that is.
Sadly, the Powershell method does not work on Windows 10 OS build 19043.1237, v21H1.
I get the following error:
Get-WmiObject : Not supported
At line:1 char:2
+ (Get-WmiObject -Namespace root/WMI -Class WmiMonitorBrightnessMethods …
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (:) [Get-WmiObject], ManagementException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : GetWMIManagementException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetWmiObjectCommand
You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression.
At line:1 char:1
+ (Get-WmiObject -Namespace root/WMI -Class WmiMonitorBrightnessMethods …
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (:) [], RuntimeException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvokeMethodOnNull
This would be very useful for me if I can get it working.
Another way to adjust the brightness is to type Brightness in the Taskbar’s Search Field which opens up the Display Window to Brightness and Color to adjust.
Cannot follow any of your methods.
None of them, as they all work only on the main display. I tried all 7.
Go to your desktop, right click, (another way to right-click is to press ctrl f10), press display settings, and then it should show you some sort of brightness bar.
Is there any option where system should auto brightness option where we using in mobile phones.
You adjust the screen brightness via the monitor buttons on the physical monitor
I’m glad I found this link. Very helpful for my surface book.
Thank you
Using the Function key with Delete and Backspace is the easiest, it can be done without looking at the keyboard – unlike trying to find the brightness keys in the long row of function keys. Sadly this Function key method is not available on the Surface Pro X.
I have windows 10 with an exterior monitor. I could not find a brightness setting to change to save my life. So my retinas burned for 30 minutes while I tried all the suggested routes, none worked. I have the Intel HD graphics driver which is supposedly the most up to date one. If I go to control panel> Intel HD Graphics Control Panel > Color Settings (really?)> there is a brightness setting there which is maybe just the brightness of colors so it sort of helped? Also using night mode. It’s too stupid for words I don’t have a normal brightness adjust setting anywhere. Up to date my a–
If the brightness link is off so how can I reduce the brightness in window 10
I have a moniter that has a brightness changer button, but when I ever I try to lower it it says unavailable. Any suggestions?
Very helpful article.
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