I have an ASUS laptop running Windows 10.
I find it convenient to adjust the brightness control, depending whether I am word processing or playing games.
At present I go to the Start icon, find the Settings icon, choose System option and move the brightness slider.
So no problem - however it would be mildly more convenient to have a ‘brightness’ shortcut on my Taskbar.
Is that possible?
Thanks!
I don’t know about a taskbar shortcut, but you should have a keyboard shortcut. Hold down function key (Fn) and tap one of the F keys at the top. Possibly F5 and F6 after looking at some images of Asus keyboards.
The only thing that comes to mind to do it: go to Settings - System and right-click “Display”. Choose “Pin to Start”. A tile for “Display” is added to the “Start” menu and you can go on from there. Not much of an improvement, but a little quicker.
ETA: or even better, a keyboard shortcut like **Folly **said. I didn’t think of that.
The dedicated key mentioned above is probably the easiest way, but there is quick access to this and other settings in the action center side bar as well.
To open it, click the button on the far right of your task bar.
:smack: Sorry to have made such a convoluted suggestion, this is much quicker. The fact I didn’t think of that only shows how I still haven’t adapted yet completely to Win 10 after four years. I only think of that section as “where the mostly annoying notifications pop up”.
Well played!
On my particular laptop, there are two helpful choices:
P.S. Now I want to play with the other Fn options!
It’s useful to know that for other cases - thank you.
If you wanted to click on taskbar buttons to control the brightness instead of Fn keys, you could install nircmd and create a pair of taskbar shortcuts to invoke it with suitable options using its changebrightness option.
The small nircmd utility program can do lots of things like that. I used it to create a taskbar button that toggles muting with one click, and made a desktop icon that opens the CD drive door, for someone who couldn’t easily locate the drive’s ejection button. (Black buttons on a black case may be stylish, but aren’t great for folks with vision issues.)
I’ve used AutoHotKey for years. Free and open source.
It has easy key remapping / assigning of any Windows operations, for any key or combination of keys.
You can also substitute keystrokes e.g. I sometimes find myself typing ‘teh’ instead of ‘the’. An AutoHotKey monitoring function fixes that automatically and instantly. Or you can assign a key combination or key sequence to type any standard words or phrases in any application. e.g. assign WinKey+R to type ‘Best Regards,<cr><cr>’, or assign ‘sdmb’ to type ‘Straight Dope Message Board’.
It also supports complex scripts to do practically anything you can think of.
Also, if you push Windows+A, the Action Center pops up. The brightness slider is right at the bottom there.