I did delve into Jim's logic trail, but while messing with this machine went to the S1 button for the umpteenth time. Picking the balloon that pops up from the Tray a bit sharpish, took me into a whole new world of control. Hooooooray! But so much of what I'd like to have a handle on is only obtainable by being in the menu system or programing this one button to do the job!
What are they thinking?
Auto brightness is a tick box in a Display sub menu. I'll leave that off. I touch type, so don't need the keyboard to light up. Indeed, the keyboards I wrote my book with have very few letters left showing. (Flat Logitec OEMs) It's funny, but if I have to fill in a form or some-such, I revert to two fingers and have no idea where many of the letters are.
Okay, finding this a major step forward, but I would have liked a mute button to press in an instant. Another one I need at hand is the touch pad ON/OFF. One can program this one button to take you to one item or sub menu, so I'm out of luck if I want to choose quickly between two or three items. But at least, un-ticking the colour management system seems to stop that white mist descending.
A few steps in the right direction at last.
P.S. I've just switched back to the Nvidia control panel from "Any other application control settings." That now manages to maintain control whereas before any change made on that menu seemed to be lost to the Vaio control system. That would explain the last minute spoiling of the picture, I suppose.
The picture is now so 'strident' that I need to adjust the Wishy-washy slider up a bit.
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