How to Stop your Laptop Screen from Dimming

Brightness is a preception to measure the light from your laptop screen. Nowadays, many complaints are reported in the various community of different brands of laptops that their laptop screen is dimming automatically in their System. This can be due to many reasons but primarily being a faulty display driver on your system.

Laptop screen dimming is not a common issue, and very few users face a similar situation like this. Most commonly, it either occurs due to a bad display driver or bad configuration settings of customer screen filter programs. If you are facing a brightness issue on your laptop, then we have fixes to resolve it.

Many users reported that many times they use the keyboard or the System setting to control the brightness. But, all go in vain as it returns to the same dim light situation even after the change in settings. However, it may be some software or hardware glitches behind this error. So before going to the service centre to fix it, try the below troubleshooting steps to rectify this error.

How to Stop your Laptop Screen from Dimming

The problem occurs due to our laptops having a light sensor or automatically adjusting the screen brightness. Sometimes it detects and automatically sets the brightness to dim and bright. In some cases, the issue can arise due to a faulty display driver or a faulty screen filter program. So, to fix this annoying error, you can follow these potential fixes.

Fix 1: Disable Adaptive brightness feature

Adaptive brightness is a feature that controls the brightness according to the ambient light near you. It is a helpful feature most of the time, but sometimes it fails to judge the ambient light and set brightness to low even if you put it manually. So by disabling the adaptive brightness may resolve the dimming brightness issue. To disable the adaptive brightness, here are the steps.

1. Click on Start and navigate to the Control Panel on your laptop.
   
2. Then, Select the Hardware and Sound in the control panel.
   
3. Click on the Power Option and then click on Change Plan Settings next to the current Power Plan.
4. After that, click on Change advanced settings.
5. Navigate to expand Display, then go to expand Enable adaptive brightness under it.
   
6. Please turn it off for battery and plugged in states.
7. Click OK  and repeat for another available power plan you use.

Fix 2: Update display rivers

Outdated drivers are always creating bugs. In this scenario, the driver is also playing an important role. Not for the brightness issue; we have to constantly check and update our system driver to use the new features. Here are the steps to update the display driver.

1. Right-click on Start and select Device Manager.
   
   
2. Navigate to Display adapters and expand it.
3. Right-click the available graphics card and select Update driver from the given options.
   
   
4. Click on Search online for driver updates and install updates if available.
5. Restart the System to apply changes.

Fix 3: Power Troubleshooter

Windows 10 has an inbuilt troubleshooter for almost every system issue. It automatically finds out the problem and also provides the solution. To run the Display troubleshoot, follow the below steps.

1. Click on Start and navigate to the Control Panel on your laptop.
2. Type Troubleshoot setting on Control Panel search bar.
3. After that, navigate to the bottom and click on Additional troubleshooter.
4. Now, click on the Power option and then Run the troubleshooter.
   
5. Apply all the recommended fixes. Restart the System to apply changes.

Fix 4: Modify Screen Resolution

However, The screen resolution may be manually set by you that may not suit much software in your System. Therefore, change the resolution as per recommendation may fix your issue. To change the resolution, here are the steps.

1. Click on Start and navigate to the Control Panel on your laptop.
2. Then click on System and navigate to Display.
3. Under the Display, section click on the Display Resolution drop-down menu.
4. Click on the resolution that shows Recommended.
   
5. Restart the System to apply changes.

Fix 5: Uninstall Screen Filter apps

Many screen filter apps such as Flux or NightOwl helps users to dim their laptop screen for comfortable working at night. However, such software can run indefinitely and may be running in the background which will dim your laptop screen brightness.

You should crosscheck the settings of preferences for these programs and see if there is a setting to disable the feature. If now, uninstall the apps as it is the main cause of laptop screen dim brightness issue.

Fix 6: Check for Faulty Wire and Electric Sockets

It is one of the common problems that everyone goes through. A faulty socket or wire can make a severe hazard. Make sure the socket you are using has not been damaged and the regular flow of required voltage.

The power cable of the laptop is not any open wire. Sometimes the fluctuation in electricity may also make an impact on your electronic devices. Remove any power-hungry device connected to the same electric board. Also, if you are using an extension, make sure it does not have any physical dame on the board and wire both.

Fix 7: Hardware Issue

If the above fixes are not resolved, then there is a possibility of any hardware issue in your System’s Graphic card, Screen, or battery. We recommend you not try and open the laptop by yourself if you don’t know about this. Instead, go to the service centre for further assistance and check for the hardware issue. The cost may differ and according to your laptop’s brand.

Hardware issues may occur due to heavy use or high-end graphics game or Apps. As a result, the System gets heat up and may damage your laptop’s internal tiny component, so use it carefully for prevention.

Conclusion

We hope you will resolve the brightness issue from the above fixes. If you have any questions regarding any of the fixes, drop the question in the comment box. For more updates, keep exploring our website.