Dimmer
Dimmer is a little free application designed to help control the brightness of your computer screen, specially to help reduce the brightness beyond what the hardware alone is capable of. This becomes very useful when you are in total darkness and the minimum brightness from your display is still too much. It can dim LCD, TFT and LED screens. Dimmer will not damage your screen, if anything, it will save the backlight and consequently, energy, by emitting less radiation. To note is the fact that most desktop screens are actually capable of reducing the brightness levels quite low, the same is not true on 95% of portable screens. Dimmer was conceived to work on all versions of Microsoft Windows.
The need for this program came about because I do allot of work at night and with minimum ambient light in the room, or (more often than I would like) in bed and my laptop (all of them) still output a great deal of light even in the lowest setting, this was damaging to my eyes and I couldn't work well. So one day I decided to develop Dimmer and solve the problem. I can now dim the laptop display to suit my needs and can finally work through the night without a problem. Your monitor brightness can be easily adjusted and the program sits in the system tray for your convenience.
Another convenient feature is that the program does not require installation. Simply extract into a folder of your choice and run. When no longer needed, just delete the folder and you are done. The program stores its settings in an xml file so the Windows Registry is not used. Dimmer options can only be accessed from its icon on the system tray (next to the clock). When it loads it will dim up to the level it was last used. The option to close/exit is in the context menu that you get by right-clicking on the system tray icon.
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Problems? See this thread at archive.org.)
