Strange thing happened a few minutes ago. While I was typing a letter, my fingers must have hit some weird key combination. I was attempting to write a reply on msn.com when first, my wrist movements over the touchpad started opening several tabs in IE. Then my screen went super nova. VERY bright. I was unable to get it back to normal with the bright/dim keys in the lower right side of the keyboard. I checked several websites and they were all the same. Finally, I decided to do a "restore" to earlier this past evening and after that process ginned along, the Acer rebooted and my brightness/contrast was back to normal. I have since turned off the touchpad as I am using BT mouse anyway. Never met a touchpad I liked. Anyone got an idea as to what I may have done on the keyboard to turn up the brightness to "white hot"?