Software to reduce brightness of laptop screen

[MrBrian]

The screen on my Windows 7 x64 laptop is too bright for my eyes at night, even at the lowest useful driver settings. I've tried different programs to reduce screen brightness. The only acceptable solution that I found is Dark Screen (hxxp://www.fxc.btinternet.co.uk/assistive.htm). A number of AVs at Jotti flag the Dark Screen installer as adware, but I believe that those are false positives. I've sent the installer to a few malware analysis sites; no suspicious behavior occurred. Nonetheless, to err on the side of caution, I ran the setup program in a virtual machine and used only the resulting portable executable, which is rated clean by all of the AVs at Jotti and did nothing suspicious at the malware analysis sites that I uploaded it to. If anybody wants, I can upload this portable executable to a file host.

Other software that I tried:
ssOverlay - similar to Dark Screen but doesn't darken all windows
DimScreen - similar to Dark Screen but doesn't darken all windows
Desktop Lighter - apparently adjusts gamma
Dimmer - got an error if I recall correctly
F.Lux - adjusts color temperature according to time of day

F.Lux can probably be used in conjunction with Dark Screen if desired.

[stapp]

MrBrian sorry if this is an obvious question, are you saying that your functionkey+brightness reducer key on your laptop doesn't reduce the brightness enough?

[wutsup]

do you have an ati graphics card or nvidia graphics card in your labtop?

in the control panel you should be able to lower the brightness throug there.

[aigle]

Originally Posted by stapp

MrBrian sorry if this is an obvious question, are you saying that your functionkey+brightness reducer key on your laptop doesn't reduce the brightness enough?

I was wondering just about this too.

[The Seeker]

I use f.lux.

[MrBrian]

Originally Posted by stapp

MrBrian sorry if this is an obvious question, are you saying that your functionkey+brightness reducer key on your laptop doesn't reduce the brightness enough?

Correct.

@wutsup
I've also used the brightness, contrast, and gamma settings in the Intel Graphics and Media control panel applet, but I couldn't get satisfactory results for night use.

[MrBrian]

I submitted the Dark Screen installer to Avira and got the result "Known clean."

[Peter 123]

I have the same problem as MrBrian but I did not even know that there is software which can reduce brightness. That are good news. Thank you for opening this thread, MrBrian.

Concerning "Dark Screen", I won't try it: At Virus Total 21 of 43 scanners regard it as dangerous. That's by far too heavy for me.

But just now I tried "f.lux" and it seems to be a nice program. (Thank you too, "The Seeker", for the information about it.)

[ronjor]

Let's go with this thread. >> http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=284964