Windows 10: Brightness/Gamma/Contrast too high/too low

Greetings.A couple of months ago my monitor seemed too bright to my liking, and since the brightness slider on the monitor itself wasn't enough. After a little bit of searching I found out about the "calibrate display color" software on Windows. Ever since I have tampered with it, my screen is always been either too bright my eyes start to hurt, or too dark so that I can't properly see things when I'm watching/playing something. I would just like to know if these changes can somehow be reset. If anyone knows if it's possible, thank you in advance!

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High Contrast Themes Issue

Hi,

Follow the steps below and check if that helps.

Step 1: To Adjust Brightness

• Take your mouse pointer to the right flank of the taskbar and hit the Notification icon.

• 
  Press Expand if the lower part of the Action center is shrunken.
  

• The light icon under which percentage of the brightness at present is written avails you the platform from where you can control the brightness.
• Clicking the Brightness icon either increase or decrease the brilliance of your system screen by 25%. Hence, you are pretty efficient to adjust the brightness on Windows 10 machine from this location.

Step 2: To Adjust Brightness through Settings.

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  Take your mouse pointer to the
  Settings icon located at the lower part of the start menu.
  
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  Hit System.
  
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  Toggle the Brightness level slider to
  Adjust Brightness on Windows 10 Desktop.
  

2. To Adjust Brightness and Contrast both from the same Platform

1. Click Cortana search at the
taskbar using the mouse.

2. Write the text
Calibrate display color in the Cortana search box and click the same on the Start Menu.

3. On Display Color Calibration window, click
Next button at the bottom to proceed further.

4. A new window called
Set basic color settings appears on the screen. Again Click Next button.

5. Similarly, you get another windowHow to adjust gamma and click Next button to continue.

6. Adjust gamma window prompts. Set the gamma color settings by sliding up or down (as you prefer) the gamma sliders. When you drag the slider upward brightness of your
desktop enhances and when pull it downward brightness decreases. This is the center step to adjust brightness so perform carefully. Press
Next button.

7. Then you will see the Find the brightness and contrast controls for your display. Tap on
Skip brightness and contrast adjustment if you want to avoid the adjustment of brightness and contrast.

Otherwise, you only click Next button to open the window
How to adjust brightness.

8. In the How to adjust brightness window, you can see three examples of brightness pictures each labelled with
too dark, good brightness, and too bright. Click
Next button.

9. Use the controls of your display to increase or reduce the brightness until you clearly see the given picture. (There are many ways to set the brightness. You can do it with your
keyboard keys, from the action center or from the
Settings app also).

10. After adjusting the brightness, click
Next button.

11. Now, you will be explained
How to adjust the contrast. Here also you will be shown three instances of
Not enough contrast, good contrast and too much contrast. Click
Next.

12. The following screen will tell you to use the contrast controls of your display to adjust the contrast. Well, presently there are no toggles to adjust contrast and also most of the laptops do not provide
a key to adjust contrast. But if needed, you can set a high contrast theme. Read the below sub-points to set high contrast theme or go to point number 13.

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  With the
  Ease of Access under Control Panel, you can choose a high contrast theme.
  
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  So, when you are into the
  Ease of Access window, click Make the computer easier to see.
  
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  This takes you to another window where you can see
  High Contrast section. Now to set a high contrast theme, jointly pressleft Alt, left Shift and
  PrtSc keys.
  
• 
  A separate dialog box of
  High Contrast will emerge asking for your confirmation. Click
  Yes and you can see everything changed into high contrast.
  
• 
  A separate dialog box of
  High Contrast will emerge asking for your confirmation. Click
  Yes and you can see everything changed into high contrast.
  
• 
  To get back to the previous settings of contrast theme, again press
  left Alt, left Shift and PrtScn keys.
  

13. Click Next button until you get the window called How to adjust color balance.

14. In the window
How to adjust color balance, hit the Next button to go further window.

15. Here, you will notice another window
Adjust color balance. In this window, you have the option to adjust the primary colors like
red, blue and green by sliding these (right or left) with mouse according to your need. After you optimize the colors press the
Next button.

16. Finally, click Finish button to save the current color calibration settings on your Windows 10 desktop.

Do let us know if you still face issue with screen brightness. Thank you.

 

Adjusting Monitor Brightness and contrast

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community. We are sorry for the inconvenience caused.

I see that you want to adjust the monitor brightness and contrast

Please answer the below question to assist you better,

What is the make and model of the keyboard?

Please check the below steps and check if it helps,

• Type Calibrate display color in the Cortana search box, and click on same.
• Click Next on Display Color Calibration window.
• Click Next on Set basic color settings appears on the screen window.
• Similarly, you get another window How to adjust gamma and click Next button to continue.
• Adjust gamma window prompts.Set the gamma color settings by sliding up or down (as you prefer) the gamma sliders. When you drag the slider upward brightness of your desktop enhances and when pull it downward brightness
  decreases.This is the center step to adjust brightness so perform carefully. Press
  Next button.
• Then you will see the Find the brightness and contrast controls for your display. Tap on
  Skip brightness and contrast adjustment if you want to avoid the adjustment of brightness and contrast.
• Press on Next button until you get the window called How to adjust color balance.
• In the window “How to adjust color balance”, hit the Next button to go further window.
• Here, you will notice another window Adjust color balance. In this window, you have the option to adjust the primary colors like
  red, blue and green by sliding these (right or left) with mouse according to your need. After you optimize the colors press the
  Next button.
• Finally, click Finish button to save the current color calibration settings on your Windows 10 desktop.

You may also update the display driver and check if it helps:

How to: Install and Update drivers in Windows 10

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...ndows-10/a97bbbd1-9973-4d66-9a5b-291300006293

I would also suggest you install the latest keyboard drivers from the manufacturing website and check if it helps.

Hope this information is helpful. Please do let us know if you need further assistance, we’ll be glad to assist you.

 

Display Brightness too low even when set at 100%, after updating to Windows 10

Screen Brightness remains too low in spite of taking many steps

Dear Pavan,

Sorry for the belated response as I was in the meanwhile also trying some other solutions that came in connection with my not being able to delete any attachments to a mail in any mode. Here is an update:

I raised this issue for the first time on April 15, 2016. Several suggestions came in and I tried all of them but the problem remains unsolved.

The background: Recently I upgraded my 2 laptops (Acer 5750 & Sony Vaio 64-bit, i5) from the earlier Windows 7 to Windows 10. The Brightness of Display which was fully good earlier, became too low on Sony laptop
as if set to 15 or 20%, even when set to 100%. Being dim, it strains the eye. No such problem is there with Acer laptop.

Suggestions so far received which have been already implemented are:

• 
  Brightness & Contrast settings
  
• 
  Colour Contrast & Balance
  
• 
  High Contrast & Making the Computer easier to see
  
• 
  Gamma Adjustment
  
• 
  SFC scan now
  
• 
  Complete DIS Scan, including RestoreHealth
  
• 
  Troubleshooting
  
• 
  Clean Reboot
  

Unfortunately, the trouble remains. Can you or anyone else help?

Best wishes,

Kumar