Windows 10: I can't Turn on the Adaptive Brightness

Before the update, every time I'd plug in my computer (or unplug) the screens brightness would adjust just a little bit. so when it was plugged in, the brightness would get just a little more vivid. Now it just stays at the brightness that it usually switches to when it's not plugged in. It's not specifically the brightness thought, because my brightness is all the way up. it's like the vividness of all the colors would change. please help me turn this back on. I looked it up but everything that it's telling me to do isn't like an option that comes up for me.

:)

 

How to turn off adaptive brightness?

Hi, I have a Windows 10 laptop Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-8130U CPU @ 2.20Ghz that I just got a week ago.

The brightness keeps dimming with darker images being displayed and brightening with lighter images. I've googled solutions to this problem and none of them have worked.

• I've updated the graphics driver
• rolled back said driver
• tried looking in the BIOS (which there are no brightness settings anyway)
• restarted the laptop
• shut down and turned on the laptop
• gone into power settings and turned off adaptive brightness On Battery and Plugged In
• tried downloading a new graphics driver
• looked into windows settings with no checkmark to disable adaptive brightness
• turned on high video performance
• tried to find Adaptive Brightness in services and disable it (it didn't seem to exist)

almost everything I've seen but none have helped. the laptop is for work and entertainment and I'd like to use it at full brightness most of the time, please help.

Thank you in advance.

 

1908 - Cannot turn off adaptive brightness

Hi!

My name is German, and I am here to help you.

The problem you've experienced with the brightness settings could be caused by an outdated driver for your Display adapter or possible that the brightness settings on your computer may not be properly set.

Please proceed with updating the driver for the Display adapter. Follow these steps:

Right click the Windows key

and click Device Manager.

Expand Display adapters.

Right-click on the Display adapter listed and click Properties.

Navigate to the Driver tab and click Update Driver Software.

Select the option to automatically search for the updated driver software.

Restart the computer after it's updated and verify.

Any other questions I am at your disposal.

Have a great day!

 

No options to turn OFF adaptive brightness / no power slider


Hello everyone!

I'm stuck with a very weird problem I can't solve. I'm not a full-on reading binary style tech person but I'm using computers (and fix their problems) since forever and never ran against a wall like this:

My Dell M3800 laptop turned on the adaptive brightness feature again that I disabled almost three years ago. Now it's pretty much useless in dim environments because the screen gets so dark. Also every option windows normally has to switch it off is gone. Not greyed out, it's just not there (Both in the legacy power options and in te new UI).

Around the same time it happend that windows decided to get rid of the old power profiles and instead only show the "balanced" one that comes with the power options slider when you click on the battery icon in the tray. I had that briefly and then the slider disappeard along with the option of turning adaptive brightness OFF.

This makes me MAD.

• I deleted and restored the default power plans in several ways
• I changed all (all I found, though) corresponding registry entries to disable adaptive brightness
• I checked the registry for the the option to show the switching-option being ENABLED
• I even stopped the windows service for the ambient light sensor

No change. Any Wizards around? *Shock

Daniel