Bright screen

[scotty365]

How do you fellas deal with bright laptop screens when trying to keep night adapted vision. Can I turn the screen luminosity down or just have to deal with it the best I can.

Scotty

[FLO]

Check that your software doesn't have a night-vision (red) mode. If not, I think Windows has?

[geppetto]

My laptop has a brightness up/down using a combination of

two buttons on the keyboard.

Other than that there is a bit of software which alters the desktop

to dark friendly colours.

Also, you could get some red cellophane sheet and tape it over the screen...

[SteelRat]

Heh, was just goin on about red film for my phone in the watches post. Phones don't have the red screen/night feature - yet - gonna nock up a screen cover this week.

[scotty365]

My laptop has a brightness up/down using a combination of

two buttons on the keyboard.

Which 2 are they?

Scotty

[blinky]

This should do the trick.

http://www.adpartnership.net/DarkAdapted/index.html

Dark Adjusted Windows

[Andrew*]

it should. OR, see how dim you can get it with the brightness controls. Either have a good search of the buttons on your keyboard. On my Tosh, it's Fn+F6 or F7 for up and down respectively.

Otherwise, go into Control panel and find the controls specific to your make of laptop (there shoudl be a number of icons in CP to control particular aspects of the laptop's hardware (brightness e.g))

hope that helps

Andrew

[scotty365]

This should do the trick.

http://www.adpartnership.net/DarkAdapted/index.html

Dark Adjusted Windows

Thanks for the link - my screen seems to compensate by increasing white parts of the display, however, by diddling a bit iv managed to get a workable screen.

Thanks everbody ((thanks doctor nick) sorry I couldn't resist that :D)

Scotty

[Grant]

Not sure if this would help but try changing the windows theme:

Right click on a blank area of your desktop and click 'Properties'.

A screen will open called 'Display Properties'

Click on the 'Appearance' tab

In the 'Windows and buttons' drop down choose 'Windows Classic Style'

In the 'Colour Scheme' drop down, choose one of the darker colour schemes, I've not tried it but 'Plum (high colour)' looks quite good, espcially if you darkened your screen slightly.

You can change it back to your normal windows theme just as easily...

Hope that helps,

Grant

[Ant]

If you have starry night 4 or 5, there is a button on tool ba for night vision - turns windows quite dark and red.

Might help

Ant

[daz]

In the Links section (buttons at the top of the screen), look under Misc Software. Dark Adapted Windows.

[magician]

I use a piece of transparent, NOT translucent red plastic cut from an A4 document folder,(W H Smiths) stuck to the corners of laptop lid with small bits of Velcro ,these were punched out of the self-adhesive velcro tape using a hole punch ,four plain on the lid, four"hooks" on the plastic.