Why doesn't my laptop have a *@*$^# contrast wheel?

[Rabrrrrrr]

My other laptop did.

Dammit, it's annoying not having one.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

1. Splain. I think you might be able to make manual settings

with your mouse touch pad. What's the system you got?

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. It's a Toshiba Satellite 2805-S202

running, of all the *@&%(&#$% things, Windows ME.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

4. First get all your updates from Microsoft. I'll be back to you

soon.

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. So far as I know, I am fully updated

and thanks for checking this stuff out!

[Crazy Guggenheim]

8. I'll be back at you soon. First, take a look some where on the

isplay or the keyboard amd see if there's anything there. But I'll BE BACK!

[yvr girl]

3. the lanai lost the romance already?

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. Hard to read the *@()&(#&% thing out here

:-)

[Tripper11]

5. So much for your great day!?!?!?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x3297345 :rofl:

Just kidding...love days like that...toss any negative, however small aside Rabrrrr

[yvr girl]

9. Contrast for the screen?

I have a Toshiba Satellite. I adjust the contrast with FN btton and the up and down arrows.

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. No, doesn't work for me. Damn.

Double damn!! But thanks for the idea!

[Crazy Guggenheim]

12. Go into Start - Control Panel - Display.

See if you can adjust the properties from there.

[yvr girl]

13. Do you have any keys that look like they have suns on them?

Try those with the FN key

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. No, sadly, not a single sun icon on the keyboard

And I really looked it over, just to make sure.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

15. Try the Control Panel.

[Rabrrrrrr]

16. Nothing in there, either

I found the "advanced" tab on the properties window of the "display" icon in the control panel, and was able to adjust the RGB so the screen is a bit more readable, but couldn't find anything that involved physically adjusting the pixel display of my LCD monitor.

This really, really fucking sucks. My first laptop, a 386-based win3.1 100MB harddrive one, which I bought in '93, from Compaq, a company I hate, had a contrast wheel, which was (and still is) essential because one never knows what the ambient light is gonna be.

This supposedly more advanced, Pentium fucking whatever super monster doesn't have, so far as I can tell, any way to adjust the contrast on the screen. Toshiba, a company which I respect (or used to), apparently feels that their customers should just go fuck themselves if they can't read the screen very well. Because, you know, what are the chances that someone using a laptop might be in different lighting conditions from day to day?

Assholes.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

18. You could be on to something. Either in the Advanced tab or

Settings re-adjust the Colors and Screen Area and see what happens.

[Jackpine Radical]

20. My Satellite 1135 has the little suns on F6 & F7.

You hold down the Fn key & hit F6 to dim, F7 to brighten. Might be worth a try.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

21. IT's the F6 key! Then you can choose how you want it set up.

[Rabrrrrrr]

22. Crap, F6 and F7 do nothing

They have no icons on them. If I hit F6 it highlights the address bar in the browser. F7 does nothing. If I hit the keys using the FN key, they do nothing.

ARGH!!!!

Why can't Toshiba do it the same way on every computer!!

[Crazy Guggenheim]

10. RAabrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Look at the above post.

[leftofthedial]

17. why? is your *@*$^#

not contrasty enough?

[Crazy Guggenheim]

19. Bump.