If you use your PC much, it’s worth taking a minute to set the brightness of the screen right. I’m guilty of not getting round to it – but the other day I was using a different laptop right next to my normal PC. I noticed just how uncomfortably bright my normal PC screen was.
A few button presses later and it was much more comfortable on my eyes – especially when I use it for a long time.
If you have a laptop, you usually have a button marked Fn, down on the bottom left, near the Ctrl and Alt keys. You’ll also have some keys with symbols like a sun with rays around it (often in a different colour from the normal keys). If you hold down the Fn key and tap the “suns rays” keys, that’ll adjust the brightness.
On a desktop PC, you use the buttons on the monitor. Usually you press a menu button, then use the + and – keys to choose brightness and adjust it – but, as you might guess, it varies a little depending on the make so you might need to experiment!
It’s worth checking, though – if the brightness is set wrong for you (or wrong for how well lit the room you use it in is) it can make it much less comfortable to use.
Tim
July 2, 2013 at 6:56 pm
Hi Tim, just read your article dated June 18 2012 on brightness. Very useful. Thankyou.