Windows 10: Adjust Screen Brightness in Windows 10

How to: Adjust Screen Brightness in Windows 10

How to Change Brightness of Built-in Display in Windows 10


If you have a laptop or tablet, you might need to occasionally change the screen brightness. For example, if you want to use your laptop outdoors on a sunny day, you might need a brighter screen to see the display clearly. Or, if you're in a dark room, you might want to make the screen less bright.

A brighter display uses more power, which reduces battery life.

If the Screen brightness option isn't available, your PC might not support brightness adjustment or you might need to update your display drivers.

Starting with Windows 10 build 17639, Microsoft removed the display brightness slider in Control Panel Power Options and the Display brightness section under Power Options Advanced Settings.

Starting with Windows 10 build 18282, Microsoft heard your feedback about a specific case where a display can become brighter when transitioning from a battery charger to battery power. Microsoft is modifying the display brightness behavior so that this can no longer happen. If a person adjusts their display brightness, that brightness will now be remembered as their preferred brightness whether they are on battery or connected to a charger. This new behavior results in a more consistent and battery friendly experience. This does not affect battery saver mode settings; if a person has opted into lowering the screen brightness in battery saver mode, their display will still dim when the battery is below the threshold selected.

This tutorial will show you different ways to change the display screen brightness on your Windows 10 laptop or tablet.


CONTENTS:

• Option One: To Adjust Screen Brightness with Keyboard
• Option Two: To Adjust Screen Brightness from Power Icon on Notification Area
• Option Three: To Adjust Screen Brightness in Action Center
• Option Four: To Adjust Screen Brightness in Display Settings
• Option Five: To Adjust Screen Brightness in Power Options
• Option Six: To Adjust Plan Screen Brightness in Edit Plan Settings
• Option Seven: To Adjust Plan Screen Brightness in Advanced Power Settings
• Option Eight: To Adjust Screen Brightness in PowerShell
• Option Nine: To Adjust Screen Brightness in Ease of Access Settings
• Option Ten: To Adjust Screen Brightness in Windows Mobility Center
• Option Eleven: To Adjust Screen Brightness in Intel HD Graphics Control Panel

OPTION ONE [/i] To Adjust Screen Brightness with Keyboard
1. Some keyboards may have shortcut keys that you can use to adjust your display brightness with like the example below. Please refer to your keyboard's or PC's manual for what they are for it if available. (see screenshot below)









OPTION TWO [/i] To Adjust Screen Brightness from Power Icon on Notification Area
*note This option is no longer available starting with Windows 10 build 17655.

1. Click/tap on the Power icon on the taskbar notification area. (see screenshot below)

2. Click/tap on the brightness button to toggle between a 0%, 25%, 50%, 75%, or 100% brightness level.









OPTION THREE [/i] To Adjust Screen Brightness in Action Center
1. Open the action center.

2. Click/tap on the brightness quick action button to toggle between a 0%, 25%, 50%, 75%, or 100% brightness level. (see screenshot below)







Note Starting with Windows 10 build 18277, the brightness quick action button is now a slider instead.










OPTION FOUR [/i] To Adjust Screen Brightness in Display Settings
1. Open Settings, and click/tap on the System icon.

2. Click/tap on Display on the left side, and adjust the Change brightness slider left (lower) or right (higher) to the level you want. (see screenshot below)









OPTION FIVE [/i] To Adjust Screen Brightness in Power Options
*note This option is no longer available starting with Windows 10 build 17639.
1. Open Power Options.

2. Move the Screen brightness slider at the bottom left (lower) or right (higher) to the level you want. (see screenshot below)









OPTION SIX [/i] To Adjust Plan Screen Brightness in Edit Plan Settings
*note This option is no longer available starting with Windows 10 build 17639.
1. Open Power Options, and click/tap on the Change plan settings link for your current active power plan. (see screenshot below)



2. Move the Adjust plan brightness slider(s) left (lower) or right (higher) to the level you want, and click/tap on Save changes. (see screenshot below)








OPTION SEVEN [/i] To Adjust Plan Screen Brightness in Advanced Power Settings
*note This option is no longer available starting with Windows 10 build 17639.
1. Open Power Options, and click/tap on the Change plan settings link for your current power plan. (see screenshot below)



2. Click/tap on the Change advanced power settings link. (see screenshot below)



3. In your current active power plan's (ex: High Performance) advanced settings, expand open Display and Display brightness. (see screenshot below step 4)

4. Change the brightness percentage to the level you want, and click/tap on OK. (see screenshot below)








OPTION EIGHT [/i] To Adjust Screen Brightness in PowerShell
1. Open PowerShell.

2. Enter the command below into PowerShell, and press Enter. (see screenshot below)

Code:

*note Substitute <Brightness Level> in the command above with 0 to 100 brightness level percentage you want.

For example with 75% brightness level:
Code:

3. You can now close Powershell if you like.









OPTION NINE [/i] To Adjust Screen Brightness in Ease of Access Settings
1. Open Settings, and click/tap on the Ease of Access icon.

2. Click/tap on Display on the left side, and turn on (default) or off Change the brightness of your built-in display for what you want under Make everything brighter on the right side. (see screenshot below)

3. When finished, you can close Settings if you like.









OPTION TEN [/i] To Adjust Screen Brightness in Windows Mobility Center
1. Open the Windows Mobility Center.

2. Adjust the Display brightness slider to the percentage level you want. (see screenshot below)

3. When finished, you can close Windows Mobility Center if you like.









OPTION ELEVEN [/i] To Adjust Screen Brightness in Intel HD Graphics Control Panel
*note This option is only available if your computer has Intel graphics.

1. Open Intel Graphics Control Panel from All Apps in the Start menu *Start

2. Click/tap on Color Settings in the left pane. (see screenshot below)

3. Adjust the Brightness slider to the level you want, and click/tap on Apply.

4. When finished, you can close the Intel HD Graphics Control Panel.





That's it,
Shawn


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Manually Adjust The Minimum Backlight Brightness on Windows 10 Desktop

We appreciate your response. There are 4 methods on how you can adjust the screen brightness in Windows 10. To address your issue, we suggest that you follow these methods below which you're not done yet:

Method 1: Adjust screen brightness using hotkeys:

• Press Fn + F5/F6 can be used to adjust the screen brightness.
• Look at your keyboard to see brightness symbol on Function keys.

Method 2: Use Action Center to display brightness in Windows 10

• Click on the Action Center icon in the taskbar to reveal the Action Center pane.
• Click on the brightness tile to increase/reduce the display brightness. If you can’t see the brightness tile, click
  Expand button.
• Clicking on the brightness tile once will take the brightness to the next level. For instance, if you click on the tile when the brightness is at 25%, the brightness will be increased to 50%. Once the brightness is reaches 100%, click on the tile again
  to start from 0%.

Method 3: Use settings to adjust screen brightness in Windows 10

• Open Settings by clicking on its icon in the left side of the Start menu.
• At the home page of Settings, click System.
• You should now see Adjust brightness level option with a slider to adjust the display brightness. If you can’t see the option, click on Display (Settings > System > Display).

Method 4: Use Control Panel to adjust brightness in Windows 10

• Right-click on the battery icon in system tray of taskbar and then click
  Adjust screen brightness option to open Power Options window.
• At the bottom of the screen, you should see Screen brightness option with a slider. Move the slider towards the left of the screen to reduce the screen brightness and towards to the right to increase the brightness.

Let us know if you need further assistance.

 

After switching to windows 19 my computer screen is too bright

After downloaded windows 10, my screen is too bright. How do I adjust the brightness.

 

1. Does nothing
2. No icon on notification area



3. No icon on notification area
4. No brightness slider



5. No options at all. When I click on "change display settings" it opens point 4 display settings



6. No slider under power settings
7. And option under advanced power settings



8. Not sure what it means, but brightness won't change anyway

 

Hello Ruu, *Smile

Is this a PC, laptop, or tablet?

If PC, then the screen brightness setting won't be available.

 

Yes, it is PC.
But why? My screen is too dark

 

It's a setting only available on tablets and notebooks.

You should still be able to manually adjust the brightness level with the monitor's on screen settings though. Check your monitor's manual for more on how to do so. It'll usually be a button at the bottom of the monitor to press.

 

I use this registry pathes

Code: ; ; power plan HIGH PERFORMANCE - set video dim to 65% for DC ; reg_keyname = "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\User\PowerSchemes\8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c\7516b95f-f776-4464-8c53-06167f40cc99\aded5e82-b909-4619-9949-f5d71dac0bcb" reg_valuename = "DCSettingIndex" reg_type = "REG_DWORD" reg_value = 65 ; ; power plan HIGH PERFORMANCE - set video dim to 100% for AC ; reg_keyname = "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\User\PowerSchemes\8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c\7516b95f-f776-4464-8c53-06167f40cc99\aded5e82-b909-4619-9949-f5d71dac0bcb" reg_valuename = "ACSettingIndex" reg_type = "REG_DWORD" reg_value = 100 ;[/quote]
for laptops.
The values are for High Performance plan only
Works in 10 , 8.x , 7

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