FS115B Display brightness

[iSix]

Is there any way to change the brightness of the display on the FS115B without the hotkeys?

If not, where can I get the hotkey software for this model (it wasn't included in \drivers\), because the brightness is very annyoing.

[rich912]

You should have a folder C:\utils. Go there and run utils.exe. If the folder is not there have a look on your recovery disks or down load the pre-installed utilities package from Vaio-Link.

[iSix]

Hmm, mine never had a \utils\ folder when I got it a few months ago, and it's not on the recovery discs.

I'll try downloading that package....

Thanks.

[iSix]

No \utils\.
Nothing on the recovery discs.
Nothing in the utilities download.

Anyone else got any ideas?

[rich912]

Have you tried running Setup.exe in the `Utils Installer 1¿ directory of the pre-installed drivers package download?

[iSix]

Have you tried running Setup.exe in the `Utils Installer 1¿ directory of the pre-installed drivers package download?

Yep, installed, rebooted, and the brightness, volume etc keys still don't work 😞

[rich912]

I am currently downloading the pre-installed drivers package to see what that contains as this really is puzzling me! I the meantime right click on an empty area of the desktop, select properties and click on the settings tab. Select Advanced ¿if you have a colour tab you can adjust the brightness from there.

[rich912]

Sorry, given up on the download. It is only downloading at 7Kb/sec for some reason and has already been running for nearly two hours and only 48% complete!
I will try again tomorrow.

[rich912]

I have done a bit of digging and according to this, to re-install the Hotkey Utility you need to install 1. Sony Utilities and 2. Sony Shared Library in that order.
The setup files for these can be found in the `Utils installer 1¿ and 'Utils installer 2' folders of the Pre-installed Utilities Package.
I hope this works.

[iSix]

Thanks for that info, I'll try it when I get home in about a week

I had the same problem with the download nd was only getting 8KB/s from several locations.