Adjusting laptop screen brightness in Windows vista

[Phil Hopkins]

Hello folks,

Ever since upgrading to Vista on my Acer Aspire thingymajig, the backlight on the screen has been incredibly dark, to the point where it's actually quite difficult to read in anything other than a dark room.

I'm pretty sure there must be a software control within vista that allows you to adjust the backlight & brightness settings but I can't find the damn thing.

Can anyone point out the error of my ways? (barring the obvious "delete vista and re-install XP" answer).

[tycho]

Don't know about that model of laptop but all the others I have used have function keys that control the brightness in hardware.

[Phil Hopkins]

I'm being stupid.

You're right, i've just found the appropriate function key!

Thanks matey.