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Windows 10 - Cant adjust brightness
I recently purchased an hp pavilion desktop + 24" monitor combo. Its running windows 10. When I first boot it up, I looked for updates. There were 8 updates. I updated everything. Both before and after updating, there was no option to change the brightness. I spent a while googling ways to fix it. I did this.....Control Panel > Device Manager > Display Adapters >Graphics card> Driver > Update Driver > Browse my computer > Let me pick. Choose Microsoft Basic Display Adapter. After this, the brightness tab showed up. The only problem is, it doesn't do anything. 0% and 100% are both the same. It is so bright it's hard to look at the screen.
My monitor is a 24" HP 24uh. According to someone on another forum I asked on, it's an older monitor and many people have had this issue. He suspected that it was too old for the updated drivers to work, and I may be out of luck. I can't continue using this computer when it's so bright it gives me a headache. I purchased it for my daughter to use for school, but it's so bright it hurts her eyes.
I'm not sure where to go next. I believe everything is updated, and nothing helps. It's connected by VGA. I was told to try an HDMI, but I'm not sure how that would fix it. Any help is much appreciated!