I use to work late nights on my laptop and my kid won't allow me to leave the bedroom. The bright light would be a disturbance for my wife and kid. So, today I decided to resolve the screen brightness issue on my laptop at any cost.
The automatic brightness adjustment feature was working very good when I got my laptop serviced which includes reload of the Operating System. Recently I noticed that neither the auto brightness work nor I was able to adjust the screen brightness manually.
I discovered that the issue was on a Monitor Driver installed by TeamViewer GmbH. TeamViewer is a remote desktop control software which assumed to be one of the most popular in its category of software. I resolved the issue by rolling back the Monitor driver to default Generic PnP Monitor driver.
Following are the below steps to Roll back the monitor driver:
My OS: Windows 8.1 64bit (Should be the same procedure for other versions of Windows)
The screen may flicker for a few times. As soon as the driver is rolled back, the brightness control will be back! Hope night owls and their families will be happy again!
DISCLAIMER: The below procedures are based on my personal experience and comes without any guarantee. You may use it at your own risk.
The automatic brightness adjustment feature was working very good when I got my laptop serviced which includes reload of the Operating System. Recently I noticed that neither the auto brightness work nor I was able to adjust the screen brightness manually.
I discovered that the issue was on a Monitor Driver installed by TeamViewer GmbH. TeamViewer is a remote desktop control software which assumed to be one of the most popular in its category of software. I resolved the issue by rolling back the Monitor driver to default Generic PnP Monitor driver.
Following are the below steps to Roll back the monitor driver:
My OS: Windows 8.1 64bit (Should be the same procedure for other versions of Windows)
- Open Windows Device Manager (Open Windows Run Command (Windows Key + R); Type devmgmt.msc and hit ENTER)
- Find Monitors in the device list and expand if there are more than one Monitors listed
- Right-click on the Standard Monitor item and select Properties
- On the Properties panel, navigate to Driver tab and select Roll Back Driver (Alt + R)
- When prompted to confirm, hit Yes. That's it!
The screen may flicker for a few times. As soon as the driver is rolled back, the brightness control will be back! Hope night owls and their families will be happy again!
DISCLAIMER: The below procedures are based on my personal experience and comes without any guarantee. You may use it at your own risk.
