Found my first really weird A2P and Windows 7 bug today...
It seems that if Win7 has gone into screen sleep mode (where your monitor or LCD display has turned off), then when it awakes the screen is in 'low power' mode. That is, it's very dim.
Attempting to use the ATK keys no longer work either - it's impossible to brighten the screen using them. A quick check on the power options (where it's possible to brighten or dim the screen) shows that brightness is at full. Attempting to reset the brightness using this (i.e. set everything to dim, then full) has no effect whatsoever.
The W2P screen seems dim by normal laptop standards anyway (at least to my eyes, and in comparison with other laptops I've had - it's probably down to the huge screen and big resolution anyway), so a dim screen is certainly no benefit! It's atrociously bad; almost impossible to read, when dim.
None of the other keys work such as raising/lowering volume, swapping display, turning bluetooth on/off, so this may not be completely a Win7 problem, perhaps an Asus ATK issue.
Asus is pretty bad on support - there's been no updated drivers since 2007, so for things like displays (which are now a full version behind the published ATI drivers), you're on your own. I don't expect a resolution to this.
Still, if there's an option in Windows to increase/decrease screen illumination, I would have expected it to work.
The only resolution seems to be a reboot. Fortunately, Win7 reboots around three times as fast as Vista (at least, at the moment). Let's see what happens when more cruft is added.
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