Message 1 of 24 Can't adjust screen brightness. Message 2 of 24 What is the model # of computer? Refer the following link to locate the model #: Have you made any changes to shipped operating system? Try the steps listed on the following link to adjust the screen brightness: Message 3 of 24} I have been having the same exact issue regarding the screen adjustment. It started about the time I got one of the Windows or Sony up dates. I also cannot update my software through the Vaio Care system. I have gone through all of the available function on the computer system and with the keyboard functions with no response. I have the latest windows 8 update. If I reset my computer then the keyboard function will start working again, however, once I close my laptop to put it in sleep mode and then come back later, when I open it automatically stops responding to screen brightness adjustment commands. My modle number is: SVT15115CXS Message 4 of 28! What version of windows are you usi

ng? Have you tried manually downloading and installing the Sony Vaio Notebook Control and Utilities and Sony Shared Library? You may get them heim Message 5 of 2 PM I am using Windows 8.1 everything is up to date at this point. The screen brightness is still unresponsive unless I reset the computer. But again once I wake it up from sleep mode it become unresponsive again. Message 6 od {1} Hello dale0008! Can you try these steps? 1.Launch Task Mac.exe 3.Delete “sony_acpi_battery_input.dll” Under “C:\Program Files\Sony\VAIO Care\ESRV\sony_acpi_battery_inputrt PC Hope this ~Tim If my post answers your question, please mark it as "Accept as Solued {1} THANK YOU SO MUCH! You are afectly! Best laptop I have ever bought by ale0008 Glad to have9 of 24 ‎12ited {1} Hey,I'm having the same troubles of dale but i cant find the dll file or the tasks that you m10 of 24 ‎1 07:02 AM Why don't you just disable "Adaptiv

e" screen?  That's what's causing this and was designSony VAIO laptops—mostly powered by Phoenix BIOS—suffer from a design flaw: Display panel brightness, monitor switching, audio volume controls, and muting do not work in the event of a specific Sony software misconfiguration. Once Windows 7 is installed, volume controls and muting function keys will start to function, because Sony designers have used “PS/2 Scan Codes for Enhanced Keyboard Features” and Windows multimedia interface recognizes the following multimedia keyboard (hexadecimal) scan codes: It’s reported by Sony VAIO users suffering from the function keys problem that you can benefit from Windows 7’s own Win+P keyboard strokes combination to toggle your screen output between Computer Only, Duplicate, Extend, or Projector Only modes—P is short for projector. Getting rid of them, brightness still remains uncontrollable, unless the graphics accelerator driver software (e.g., Nvidia Control Panel) can handle such feature.

Electronically speaking, volume, brightness, and projector-switching controls should interact with the built-in internal amp, the LCD’s LED-backlight/fluorescent tube, and the GPU respectively, but they don’t; they’re just a bunch of crude keys… Dell laughs at the Japanese because such vital functions should be implemented at the BIOS-level, and with the elimination of high-level software dependency, the LCD screen brightness of a Dell laptop (e.g., my Dell XPS M1330) can be changed using Fn+Up/Fn+Down arrow keys in its BIOS, during POST, while starting Windows, once Windows has completed its cumbersome startupBlue Pitbulls Puppies For Sale In Michigan, or in whatever OS you’re operating, regardless of driver-dependency. Running Shoes Carson City NvNot acting as a driver and not necessitated to install, Dell QuickSet software only enables users to see an OSD of what they’re changing. Chocolate Lab Puppies For Sale In Stockton Ca

“It’s a Sony” though, so what should a typical VAIO owner do if they’ve upgraded to Windows 7? You need to download the following drivers and utilities for your VAIO’s specific model from Sony VAIO Support website, and using run as administrator install them exactly in the order specified: Once every package’s installation is finished, there’s a chance for the Program Compatibility Assistant to pop up indicating the following message: Carefully select This program installed correctly. VAIO gurus suggest a restart once each one of the drivers and utilities finished installing, just to keep the VAIO software team happy. Please note the four-tier installation order is crucial, and refusal to adhere to the installation order results in partial response of your Fn combinative keys: Also please note if all or some portion of these 4 packages have previously existed on your current Windows 7 installation, or even you’re suspicious about it, take no chances, and directly jump to the removal procedure described below.

You need to remove any instances of the aforementioned software installed previously, before methodically installing them fresh: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Sony Shared\Version.txt C:\Program Files\Common Files\Sony Shared\Sony Utilities\Data.prof C:\Program Files\Common Files\Sony Shared\Sony Utilities\Match.prof C:\Program Files\Common Files\Sony Shared\Sony Utilities\SnyUtils.dll C:\Program Files\Sony\Setting Utility Series\AppMonitorSetting.dll C:\Program Files\Sony\Setting Utility Series\AutoDimmerSetting.dll C:\Program Files\Sony\Setting Utility Series\BatteryCare.exe C:\Program Files\Sony\Setting Utility Series\DisplaySetting.dll C:\Program Files\Sony\Setting Utility Series\HDDProtectionSetting.dll C:\Program Files\Sony\Setting Utility Series\InputSetting.dll C:\Program Files\Sony\Setting Utility Series\LEDSetting.dll C:\Program Files\Sony\Setting Utility Series\PowerViewSetting.dll C:\Program Files\Sony\Setting Utility Series\SBMsg.exe C:\Program Files\Sony\Setting Utility Series\SBRes.dll C:\Program Files\Sony\Setting Utility Series\SpecialButtonSetting.dll C:\Program Files\Sony\Setting Utility Series\SUSCommonSetting.dll C:\Program Files\Sony\Setting Utility Series\SUSLaunchStartDes.exe C:\

Program Files\Sony\Setting Utility Series\SystemSetting.dll C:\Program Files\Sony\Setting Utility Series\VCCChecker.dll C:\Program Files\Sony\Setting Utility Series\VCCMouseButton.exe C:\Program Files\Sony\Setting Utility Series\Version.txt C:\Program Files\Sony\Setting Utility Series\EN-US\AppMonitorSetting.dll.mui C:\Program Files\Sony\Setting Utility Series\EN-US\AutoDimmerSetting.dll.mui C:\Program Files\Sony\Setting Utility Series\EN-US\BatteryCare.exe.mui C:\Program Files\Sony\Setting Utility Series\EN-US\colormode.chm C:\Program Files\Sony\Setting Utility Series\EN-US\Display.chm C:\Program Files\Sony\Setting Utility Series\EN-US\DisplaySetting.dll.mui C:\Program Files\Sony\Setting Utility Series\EN-US\HDDProtection.chm C:\Program Files\Sony\Setting Utility Series\EN-US\HDDProtectionSetting.dll.mui C:\Program Files\Sony\Setting Utility Series\EN-US\InputSetting.dll.mui C:\Program Files\Sony\Setting Utility Series\EN-US\LEDSetting.dll.mui C:\Program Files\Sony\Setting Utility Series\EN-US\Perform.chm C:\Program Files\Sony\Setting Utility Series\EN-US\PointingDevice.chm C:\Program Files\Sony\Setting Utility Series\EN-US\PowerViewSetting.dll.mui C:\Program Files\Sony\Setting Utility Series\EN-US\SBRes.dll.mui C:\Program Files\

Sony\Setting Utility Series\EN-US\Sbutton.chm C:\Program Files\Sony\Setting Utility Series\EN-US\SpecialButtonSetting.dll.mui C:\Program Files\Sony\Setting Utility Series\EN-US\SystemSetting.dll.mui C:\Program Files\Sony\Setting Utility Series\EN-US\VCCMouseButton.exe.mui C:\Program Files\Sony\Setting Utility Series\EN-US\zoombutton.chm C:\Program Files\Sony\VAIO Event Service\Activation.exe C:\Program Files\Sony\VAIO Event Service\Interop.NETWORKLIST.dll C:\Program Files\Sony\VAIO Event Service\mfc80u.dll C:\Program Files\Sony\VAIO Event Service\msvcp70.dll C:\Program Files\Sony\VAIO Event Service\msvcp71.dll C:\Program Files\Sony\VAIO Event Service\msvcp80.dll C:\Program Files\Sony\VAIO Event Service\msvcr70.dll C:\Program Files\Sony\VAIO Event Service\msvcr71.dll C:\Program Files\Sony\VAIO Event Service\msvcr80.dll C:\Program Files\Sony\VAIO Event Service\NWMultiTouch.dll C:\Program Files\Sony\VAIO Event Service\pi.wav C:\Program Files\Sony\VAIO Event Service\RKConfig.ini C:\Program Files\Sony\VAIO Event Service\Version.txt C:\Program Files\Sony\VAIO Event Service\VESAppMon.dll C:\Program Files\Sony\VAIO Event

Service\VESAutoDimmer.dll C:\Program Files\Sony\VAIO Event Service\VESBasePS.dll C:\Program Files\Sony\VAIO Event Service\VESColorMgr.dll C:\Program Files\Sony\VAIO Event Service\VESCommonUI.dll C:\Program Files\Sony\VAIO Event Service\VESConfig.ini C:\Program Files\Sony\VAIO Event Service\VESGfxMgr.exe C:\Program Files\Sony\VAIO Event Service\VESHidDevice.dll C:\Program Files\Sony\VAIO Event Service\VESHybridGfx.dll C:\Program Files\Sony\VAIO Event Service\VESKBStatus.dll C:\Program Files\Sony\VAIO Event Service\VESMgr.exe C:\Program Files\Sony\VAIO Event Service\VESMgrSub.exe C:\Program Files\Sony\VAIO Event Service\VESMgrSubPS.dll C:\Program Files\Sony\VAIO Event Service\VESPerform.dll C:\Program Files\Sony\VAIO Event Service\VESRemoteKey.dll C:\Program Files\Sony\VAIO Event Service\VESRes.dll C:\Program Files\Sony\VAIO Event Service\VESSetGamma.dll C:\Program Files\Sony\VAIO Event Service\VESShellExeProxy.exe C:\Program Files\Sony\VAIO Event Service\VESStorageProtect.dll C:\Program Files\Sony\VAIO Event Service\VESSuEvent.dll C:\Program Files\Sony\VAIO Event Service\VESTransform.dll C:\Program Files\Sony\VAIO Event