I just spent nearly $1000 on a new Dell Studio One 1909 desktop computer to work on the X-Ray project. The reason I chose this computer is because the monitor is the computer itself and it takes up very little space. Other than that, only 1 cable is required that is the power cord. The mouse and keyboard are wireless and it also comes with a wi-fi adapter. Everything was so great about this all-in-one desktop but after using a while I noticed that it is lacking of control buttons to adjust the monitor’s brightness and contrast. I searched on the Internet and many people too confirmed that it doesn’t have a monitor brightness control on the monitor.
I always adjust the monitor’s brightness to a very low level so that I don’t strain my eyes. I believe that is the reason why until today my eyesight is still perfect even though I spent at least 8 hours a day on computer 7 days a week. I read the whole manual book, searched on the Internet but I couldn’t find a way to adjust the brightness of the monitor. I found a tool developed by Dell called OSD (On Screen Display) installed in Program Files folder and I thought it could somehow used to adjust the brightness but the program did nothing. After messing around for a little while, I found 2 ways to adjust the Dell Studio One 1909 screen brightness.
The first method only works if you have a Nvidia graphics card.
1. Right click on desktop and select NVIDIA Control Panel
2. Click on “Adjust desktop color settings” at the left hand side navigation bar.
3. Select NVIDIA settings and you can now move the slider for Brightness and Contrast.
If your computer doesn’t come with a NVIDIA graphics card or if the brightness control button is not working, you can use a simple software such as Desktop Lighter to do it. Desktop Lighter lets you adjust the brightness of your screen easily and quickly, anytime you want to. It can change the brightness level by a trackbar slider or by keyboard command hotkeys. To set the brightness you can use both the Desktop Lighter trackbar and keyboard hotkeys (Ctrl+<) & (Ctrl+>) when the program sits in system tray.
This program is FREE and use up less than 2MB memory. What I really like about this tool is the command hotkey to adjust the level of brightness is very similar to laptops. Laptop uses the Fn key combined with another key but Desktop Lighter uses CTRL + < or >. You can even set it to launch with Windows so you don’t need to do anything in future and this tool auto decrease or increase the brightness based on your last settings. Even after setting the lowest for brightness and contrast in NVIDIA Control Panel, the screen is still very bright. Fortunately I can use Desktop Lighter to bring down the brightness even more.
[ Download Desktop Lighter ]
ljudi meni treba da pjacam svijetlost na obicnom monitoru :D
Unfortunately I couldn’t get used to F.lux and its colour changing. I normally change just the brightness from day to night, manually, and the pink of the changed temperature was too distracting.
This DL program is fully manual. Flux alters the temperature automatically according to the time of day, where you are, sinusoidally. Nice idea, but unusable. :(
great information , am using the adobe gamma and set it to the cool sunlight settings and it is working well but the downside is have to install adobe photoshop in order to conitiue using it, after reading this great artcle definitely , will be tyrying both the software programmes oneafter the other to condition my desktop, regards.
Oh F.lux is great I’ve been using it for a while now…before I could bare to read anything on the screen but now its so much easier! At first it seems to make the screen pink but you’ll get used to it after sometime and its well worth it! My settings are 4500K at night to 5100k in the morning…I recommend keeping it below 5000K at night.
different between these two software f.lux & Desktop Lighter?
Thanks Steve.
Thks posting raymond
Your welcome dd, and norman :)
I’ve also having problems dealing with adjustment of display of my laptop and since there are software options that might be useful to my computer, I’ll choose the best one. I have already downloaded both desktop lighter and f.lux. thank you very much for sharing.
thanks for the great info ray :D
and thank you steve for the f.lux :D
We have been using F.lux for over a year now, and me, and the DW like it.
Supports, XP, Vista, 7, Mac OSX, Linux
1.56MB Download
You can enter your Latitude – Longitude co-ordinates or use a f.lux lnk to google maps to enter your position.
Is adjustable for Halogen, Fluorescent, or Daylight, and can be disabled for color sensitive work.
Memory usage is 4.7k on our system.
XP PRO Sp3 2GB Ram
It can be found at:
stereopsis.com/flux/
I am always amazed at the difference when I shut it down to install programs
Steve
Should’ve just gone with an iMac :)
Use f.lux software which save your eyes from your monitor screen resolutions
Thanks Raymond for the very useful tool, on my BENQ it works perfect!!!
thanks for the desktop lighter!
So when is X-Ray going to be done? We’re all anxiously waiting :D