Do not be blinded by the light emitted by your screen. In this tutorial I show you how to lower the screen brightness in Windows 11 .
Eyestrain is a common problem among people who use the computer and other devices for many hours every day . People who work or study for many hours in front of the computer often suffer from eye fatigue, eyestrain, irritation and we could even end up with hyperopia or myopia, whose solution would be the use of glasses. That is why to avoid these situations we have measures to prevent, one of them is the lighting of our screens.
Index of contents
- How we take care of our eyes in front of our computer screen
- Use adequate lighting on your screens
- Avoid reflections on the screen
- Correctly adjust your monitor settings
- Exercises to rest the sight of our monitor
- How to lower screen brightness on new Windows 11 system with Quick Settings
- How to change screen brightness in Windows 11 settings
- How to lower the brightness if it is off
How we take care of our eyes in front of our computer screen
It is very important to take care of your eyesight, and that is why I show you some points that you can take into account when using a computer to work or study. After telling you everything you need to do, we will move on to how to lower the screen brightness in Windows 11 .
Use adequate lighting on your screens
On many occasions, eye fatigue produces an excess of bright light in the environment that uses the computer or, on the contrary, being in the dark and having the monitor light too high . The perfect lighting that we must have when handling a computer is neither very bright nor very dull, in addition to avoiding having windows or lamps behind the monitor, so the windows are recommended to be on the sides.
Avoid reflections on the screen
This part is also important to be able to take care of our eyes and is that these reflections on the screen can also cause damage to our eyes . Ideally, you should avoid reflections and light sources from behind.
Correctly adjust your monitor settings
Having our monitor with a lot of light or off, can cause tired eyes especially if we spend too many hours in front of it, we must adjust the settings to be able to protect our eyes and that in the long run it does not affect us. Here are some tips on how you should correctly adjust the settings.
The brightness of the screen is ideal that it is approximately the light we have in our environment . The contrast and the size of the text, we must adjust it according to our taste and how we feel more comfortable with it to avoid straining our eyes. The color temperature, we should reduce the temperature of our monitor to reduce the light emitted, thus helping us to avoid or reduce eye fatigue.
Exercises to rest the sight of our monitor
Resting is a very important part and it is no less to remove our eyes for a few moments from our screens. The ideal is to divert the monitor’s view every 15 minutes to focus on another point close to us. We can also make circles with our hands over the eyes for 10 seconds . Closing our eyes while covering them with our hands will help us to rest for a few moments in the dark. All these breaks are very useful to avoid eye pain at the end of the day.
These are all the tips I can give you to take care of your eyesight, so now we move on to how to lower the screen brightness in Windows 11 . Very attentive!
How to lower screen brightness on new Windows 11 system with Quick Settings
Lowering the brightness of the screen of our computer is very simple, with just a few steps we can do it thanks to a menu that the new Windows 11 Quick Configuration offers us . Without further ado, let’s see how we can lower the screen brightness of our monitor.
First of all we will click on the “Settings” button that we find in the network, volume and battery icons, in the lower right corner. We would be talking about the “Quick Settings” menu .
Clicking on this menu will bring up a Quick Settings menu . We will find in this an icon in the shape of the sun and next to it a bar that we can slide by pressing the button of our mouse. By sliding it will allow us to change the brightness level of our screen. If you see numbers appear against the lower the number, the less brightness we will have on our monitor. On the contrary, the more numbers we have when sliding the lever, the brighter our screen will have. In addition, another way to check the brightness is through the icon, since it becomes smaller or larger depending on the brightness of the screen.
Once we have chosen the brightness we want on our monitor, we will only click with our mouse outside the menu to return to the main screen.
How to change screen brightness in Windows 11 settings
We have another way to change the screen brightness of our monitors without the need for quick setup. For this we must first go to “Start” to then search for “Settings” . Once inside a menu will appear where on the left side we will find the option “Systems” then we will select “View” .
In the system configuration, we will find the option below “Brightness and color” . In the Brightness section we will use the slider to increase or decrease the brightness of our monitor. If you notice, the operation is exactly the same as what we find in the Quick Settings menu .
In case you want to change the brightness of your screen again, you must follow the same steps to access the menu again.
How to lower the brightness if it is off
It may happen that the brightness option is deactivated on our computer and we cannot make this change through it. These cases usually happen in devices that are laptops or tablets so it is useful to know the following method.
On our device, either on the sides in the form of a button or on our keyboard, we can find keys that will help us lower or increase the brightness of our screen. Ideally, check on the website or with the support of our device. So find out which are the appropriate buttons to perform this function.
These are all the ways we have to decrease or increase the brightness of our monitor. via the new Windows 11 operating system.