Monitor dimming in Windows Vista?

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Monitor dimming in Windows Vista? by kryp2nyt on 07-07-2007 at 09:27 AM

Hi all

Is there a way to force the monitor in Windows Vista to dim just like the iMacs?

RE: Monitor dimming in Windows Vista? by Phillip on 07-07-2007 at 01:32 PM

Google Search

First Link

RE: Monitor dimming in Windows Vista? by Oxy on 07-07-2007 at 01:42 PM

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Originally posted by Phillip
Google Search

First Link

She asked for it to work in Windows Vista..

quote:
Originally posted by Website
The Power Dimmer is a free download for Windows (XP and 2000) only.

So, it might not even run properly on vista.

RE: RE: Monitor dimming in Windows Vista? by Verte on 07-07-2007 at 02:40 PM

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Originally posted by Lukas

quote:
Originally posted by Website
The Power Dimmer is a free download for Windows (XP and 2000) only.

So, it might not even run properly on vista.

People in the comments section are using it on Vista.

I'm surprised there isn't an energy saver feature to send relative lamp power data to a monitor. For example, in laptops there is usually a set of hardware registers for this, but setting up a desktop to work the same would be a pain.

RE: Monitor dimming in Windows Vista? by kryp2nyt on 07-07-2007 at 02:56 PM

Thanks all !

I don't mean a screen saver, I mean a system configuration just like laptops !

RE: Monitor dimming in Windows Vista? by Voldemort on 07-07-2007 at 03:01 PM

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Originally posted by kryp2nyt

Thanks all !

I don't mean a screen saver, I mean a system configuration just like laptops !

I don't think there is one that could work as laptops use hardware to do that... your monitor should have that option

RE: Monitor dimming in Windows Vista? by John Anderton on 07-07-2007 at 03:18 PM

dimming monitors as in decreasing their brightness? Can't you do that manually? :-/

RE: RE: Monitor dimming in Windows Vista? by Phillip on 07-07-2007 at 04:04 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Lukas

quote:
Originally posted by Phillip
Google Search

First Link

She asked for it to work in Windows Vista..

quote:
Originally posted by Website
The Power Dimmer is a free download for Windows (XP and 2000) only.

So, it might not even run properly on vista.

I did try it myself on Vista.

quote:
Originally posted by John Anderton
dimming monitors as in decreasing their brightness? Can't you do that manually?

Yes you can. Thats why I assumed she meant something else..

RE: Monitor dimming in Windows Vista? by aNILEator on 07-07-2007 at 07:50 PM

I thought she was talking about STOPPING it dimming (when I boot vista the colours look great and bright, then it dims )

RE: RE: RE: Monitor dimming in Windows Vista? by Verte on 07-08-2007 at 06:56 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Phillip

quote:
Originally posted by John Anderton
dimming monitors as in decreasing their brightness? Can't you do that manually?

Yes you can. Thats why I assumed she meant something else..

I think she wants it to happen automatically, to sort of half a half-off screen instead of a regular screen saver. I know you can do this on most laptops [it's absolutely trivial to do so on most laptops under Linux], bur for desktop LCDs you're out of luck.

RE: Monitor dimming in Windows Vista? by CookieRevised on 07-15-2007 at 02:39 PM

http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Skrommel/index.html#DimScreen

But as Voldemort said, to do it properly you better use the build-in feature of your laptop for this, and/or do it manually on your monitor. A s those will be true dimming, the software solutions like the program above are just 'simulations'.

related: see the MSDN library for WM_SYSCOMMAND with SC_MONITORPOWER.

RE: Monitor dimming in Windows Vista? by Jesus on 07-15-2007 at 06:01 PM

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Skrommel/index.html#DimScreen

it doesn't dim its own menu and the mouse pointer

RE: Monitor dimming in Windows Vista? by Nathan on 07-15-2007 at 06:05 PM

It just overlays everything with black with a slight bit of transparency

RE: Monitor dimming in Windows Vista? by CookieRevised on 07-16-2007 at 02:41 AM

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Originally posted by Napbree
It just overlays everything with black with a slight bit of transparency

Of course, as that is the only way to do it using simple software. Its the best you can get using a normal program...

quote:
Originally posted by CookieRevised

But as Voldemort said, to do it properly you better use the build-in feature of your laptop for this, and/or do it manually on your monitor. As those will be true dimming, the software solutions like the program above are just 'simulations'.