Screen dimming is driving me insane

What's up with the constantly changing screen brightness?  I'd turn off enable adaptive brightness in the power plan settings but if I do the screen is too bright for me to look at in a dark room. The "enable adaptive brightness" actually allows the screen to go darker than if enable adaptive brightness was turned off.  The brightness of the screen changes constantly (small increments of increased and decreased brightness) even if the room remains pitch black.  Anyone else having this problem?

Hi tcj,
thanks for posting. Try going to the Lenovo Energy Managent Software and from there you will see a column for "Intelligent Power saver"/ In that column you can enable n disable the Auto Screen brightness.
Hope this helps.
Regards

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