Envy 17 Brightness Hotkey Work-around
My new laptop, 2xxxx series HP Envy 17 3D has a small problem if you update the ATI graphics drivers, namely: the Brightness hot keys stop working. What to do? Well step in www.Notebookreview.com forums, and the HP Envy 17 (2xxx) series Owners Lounge and a work-around pointed out by Fiver5- Fiver5 pointed me to a display brightness gadget over at edgylogic - Who happen to also share his source code for his console application, this combined together with AutoHotKey , and we have brightness functions working again! Woot! But now for the point of my post - tweaking! The console application allows you to set the brightness value of the screen with a command line argument, but does not allow you to increment up and down automatically... Pretty simple fix, just need to add two command line arguments to the console application, and then change the window behavior to not display the console when the application is launched: Here's the additions to the original code, not the clea