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I've tried everything posted in the accepted answer for this question and none of the proposed solutions work for me, the screen keeps going dark when I'm on a dark window which is very annoying because I use dark windows for most programs I work with.

Does anyone have any other working solutions for this problem?

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  • have you tried just changing your power settings? the options in the answer you linked are really only going to be applicable if your laptop uses the same power management software - but you should still be able to right-click the battery icon in your task bar, click "Power Options", "Change Plan Settings" for your selected plan, click "Change advanced power settings", and then go through your settings to see if there's anything dimming your display – mael' Jul 08 '19 at 12:32
  • @mael' My system is not in English so if any of the options names sound weird, that's why. If I follow your instructions, the only option under "Display" I see that could be dimming my screen is "Adaptive brightness function" which is turned off for both when the laptop is on power supply and on battery. – Don Andre Jul 08 '19 at 12:36
  • when you say "going dark", what do you mean exactly? are you sure your laptop is actually dimming, or is it just... not as bright as a light-colored screen would be.. – mael' Jul 08 '19 at 12:38
  • When I'm on a dark window, the brightness slowly starts going down this on itself is unnoticeable but when I go from a dark screen to a light screen (let's say a browser window) it is very noticeable that the screen is much darker than it should be. After I switch to the light window it slowly turns the brightness back up again. – Don Andre Jul 08 '19 at 12:40
  • there is a registry change outlined here you can try: https://superuser.com/questions/994443/brightness-changes-while-adaptive-brightness-is-disabled-in-windows-8-1-10-wit – mael' Jul 08 '19 at 12:47
  • This seems to have solved my issue, thank you for your help! – Don Andre Jul 08 '19 at 13:01
  • I'll put it in an answer format so we can mark it as solved – mael' Jul 08 '19 at 13:11

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There may be a registry solution for this if the power settings GUI didn't help:

  1. Press Win+r
  2. Type regedit and press Enter
  3. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Intel\Display\igfxcui\profiles\media\Brighten Movie and change ProcAmpBrightness to 0
  4. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Intel\Display\igfxcui\profiles\media\Darken Movie and change ProcAmpBrightness to 0

Reference: This solution on superuser

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