HP Laptops with XP - Brightness buttons dont work - Fix

If you've got a new HP laptop and have formatted it (to probably get rid of the lousy Vista OS)

and installed or downgraded it to XP you'll have noticed something that people all over seem to be annoyed with:

The brightness keys Fn F7 and F8 don't work once the XP OS starts loading into memory.

HP has probably rigged this to work only with Vista. So you're stuck.. right?

Nope :)

Here's the surefire fix:

1. Just download the .NET 2.0 framework from microsoft

2. And then hop across to HP and search for something called HP Quick Launch Buttons or do a google search for "HP Quick Launch Buttons "

3. Download it for your laptop model. Install it and reboot.

After this you should have your laptop running XP with the Fn F7 and F8 brightness buttons working!