Hi I've used laptops for a decade and I adjust the screen brightness with ease.

With a desktop, there is no easy way to adjust brightness on my Philips monitor - it's got fiddly unlit touch switches and surfing onto the brightness bit is very difficult.

So I was thinking software - any ways to browse without glaring white backgrounds at night? What about other bright things like Windows Explorer - do people change to a different non white background? 

Coloured web pages seem to be ok, but big white spaces are like "WHOA I need sunglasses"

And that's with all the lights on in my room, no I'm not using it in an otherwise pitch black room.