One must-have feature on any laptop is its ability to illuminate the keyboard. Enabling the backlight not only allows users to see individual keys in low-light conditions but also makes your keyboard look a lot more attractive.
Your keyboard will have a dedicated key that enables and disables its backlight. For Dell laptops, this key is usually the F6, F10, or one of the arrow keys. So,pressing the Fn + F6/F10/arrow keys simultaneously should enable keyboard lights on Dell laptops.If it does not work, you need to find the backlit key for your keyboard tocontrol the keyboard lights.
Depending on your Dell laptop, it may even have a dedicated application that controls keyboard lighting.
Does My Laptop Have a Backlit Keyboard?
Before we jump into the how-to part of the question, you need to know whether your laptop’s keyboard has a backlight.
Not all Dell laptops have a backlit keyboard. To check whether your keyboard has backlights,search the function keys for the backlit key. Usually, a key with a backlit icon, shown in the image, is the key that controls the keyboard backlight.
Some Dell laptops have the backlit icon on one of the arrow keys. If you cannot find the backlit key, check the arrow keys.
There is a high chance that yourDell laptop does not have a backlit keyboard if your keyboard does not have a dedicated backlit key.
In case your laptop’s keyboard does not illuminate even when it has a dedicated keyboard backlit key, it could be that the keyboard illumination settings are disabled from the BIOS itself.
How to Turn on Keyboard Light on Dell?
For any laptop, the easiest way to enable the keyboard light is through the backlit key. As for Dell laptops, you may adjust the keyboard light in a few different ways. Let us first start with the easiest of them all.
Using the Backlight Key
The first and simplest way to enable the backlight on any laptop keyboard is by using the backlight key. If your laptop keyboard supports the backlight, you will have a dedicated keyboard button to control the keyboard lighting.
Using Alienware Command Center
Besides the backlit key, some Dell laptops support the Alienware Command Center that allows the user to access and control several system configurations, such as CPU/GPU temperature, voltage, and usage, memory speed.
