{"id":985,"date":"2015-11-06T22:12:49","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T22:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/?p=985"},"modified":"2015-11-06T22:12:49","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T22:12:49","slug":"hp-ambient-light-on-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2015\/11\/hp-ambient-light-on-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"HP Ambient Light on Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have an HP TouchSmart 600-1220uk Desktop PC that I keep ticking over.\u00a0 A while back I did a fresh install of vanilla Windows 8, and then recently upgraded to Windows 10.\u00a0 Now that winter is drawing in I became frustrated that the &#8220;Ambient Light&#8221; feature was only blue. I remembered that you could have any colour when I got the PC originally.<\/p>\n<p>HP no longer supplies this software, and after much searching I eventually found it here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desktop-driver.com\/driver\/?action=down&amp;id=4312\">http:\/\/www.desktop-driver.com\/driver\/?action=down&amp;id=4312<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sadly this did not work as it said I did not meet the minimum requirements \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>Luckily 7zip came to the rescue. I opened the file as an archive and kept drilling down until I found a folder that contained HPAmbientLightSetup_x64.msi.\u00a0 I ran this and it installed immediately with no fanfare. It just works.\u00a0 Simple program but it is nice to get away from the blue once more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have an HP TouchSmart 600-1220uk Desktop PC that I keep ticking over.\u00a0 A while back I did a fresh install of vanilla Windows 8, and then recently upgraded to Windows 10.\u00a0 Now that winter is drawing in I became frustrated that the &#8220;Ambient Light&#8221; feature was only blue. I remembered that you could have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2015\/11\/hp-ambient-light-on-windows-10\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HP Ambient Light on Windows 10<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[98],"class_list":["post-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekiness","tag-touchsmart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":986,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions\/986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}