Screen brightness changes without me doing it

I just bought a refurbished HP Pavilion TS Sleekbook 15. I am loving it except the screen brightness changes without me doing anything and it is driving me crazy!! It dims and brightens sometimes when I click on something and other times for no apparent reason. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Hi Angeliize, and welcome to the HP Support Forums!
I understand that you are having a problem with the display screen brightness dimming without you changing it. I will try my best to help you with this issue. To better assist you, could you please tell me the whole model number of your computer and the operating system that is running on it. Here are some guides for How Do I Find My Model Number or Product Number? and Which Windows operating system am I running?
The dimming could be related to the power settings on your Sleekbook. Here is a document for Disable Auto-Dimming of the Screen on Your HP Laptop that has steps for changing the dimming settings.
I hope this information helps, please let me know how it goes.
Good luck and have a great day!
I worked on behalf of HP.

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