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I am working with two Windows 7 desktop computers, both of which have a unique problem I have not seen before. (To reiterate, these are not laptop computers; they have no battery and hence no battery settings that can be set.) One of the computers has a brand new monitor, and the other has a monitor that I have no reason to believe is malfunctioning.

Please be advised that this dimming is coming while the keyboard and mouse are active. I do believe -- please correct if I'm wrong -- that active keyboard and mouse will bring a dimmed or display shutdown computer out of those states with an active keyboard and/or mouse.

I can be working right along using the keyboard and mouse. All of a sudden, the display dims for no apparent reason. The display will not brighten back up with vigorous mouse movement.

I have looked at articles like this, but I thought displays turned back on with keyboard/mouse activity, let alone never dim when there was mouse/keyboard activity already present.

My question is what setting or settings might be causing this? To the best of my knowledge no one has installed or set a screen saver that might be causing this.

octopusgrabbus
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This might solve your problems:

"Auto dim or also referred to as Smart Dimmer in Windows 7 is available in computer systems that have the hardware which supports this feature. Please see the troubleshooting steps below that would help resolve your issue.

  1. Open Power Options by clicking the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking System and Security, and then clicking Power Options.
  2. Under the current power plan, click Change plan settings.
  3. On the Change settings for the plan page, click on Change advanced power settings.
  4. In Advanced settings, scroll down the menu, click on Display and see if you find the dim feature listed here. You may change the settings for Auto dim if present under display, accordingly to as you want."

The text above is quoted from Microsoft Answers: Turning off Windows 7 auto-dimming on desktop

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