Vaio laptop VGN-S5M Brightness control

davehuge1971 — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:45:19 GMT

The brightness control has stopped working...can anyone tell me the name of the driver that controls this? Thanks, Dave.

Blencogo — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:44:54 GMT

Hi davehuge1971,

All the Function Keys, including the screen brightness, are controlled by the Vaio Utilities.

You need to install IN ORDER:

Utils Installer 1 (Sony Utils DLL)

Utils Installer 2 (Sony Shared Library)

Utils Installer 6 (Setting Utilities Series)

Utils Installer 7 (Vaio Event Service)

You may have to install these twice.

These Utilities may be available in a folder C:\Utils on your Vaio - or you can download the Original Utilities Package from here: -

NOTE: I am assuming XP. If you are using Vista come back.

EDIT: I have noticed that there are updates for Sony Utilities DLL and Vaio Event Service - just click on the 'Updates@ Tab.

Message was edited by: blencogo

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