# Is there anything (except the pause menu) which will allow me to change the brightness of the display?

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**Created:** [March 19, 2025, 5:19pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/is-there-anything-except-the-pause-menu-which-will-allow-me-to-change-the-brightness-of-the-display/34712 "2025-03-19T17:19:06Z")
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### Author: ![BLADEr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/blader/32/16422_2.png) [@BLADEr](https://forum.makecode.com/u/BLADEr)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2025, 12:28pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/is-there-anything-except-the-pause-menu-which-will-allow-me-to-change-the-brightness-of-the-display/34712/3 "2025-03-20T12:28:14Z")

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Hello! I created an extension just now for changing the brightness through blocks. I saw that other people were asking about this same thing. Here’s the extension that allows you to change the brightness of your screen:

> **[GitHub - bladebaillio/pxt\_brightness\_extension: manually changing the brightness of screen via...](https://github.com/bladebaillio/pxt_brightness_extension)**
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> manually changing the brightness of screen via blocks

Hope this helps!

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