How to control a backlit keyboard on a clean vista install? E6500

I just did upgraded from XP to vista bus on my e6500. I only loaded the drivers that I needed and left out as much of the dell software as I could. One thing I am having trouble with is the backlit keyboard... Now the keyboard works, the leds turns on when I type, turns off when inactive for 10 secs and I can use the Fn+right arrow to manually turn it on or off...

My question is, with XP and the DCP software I could change options such as brightness and length duration for the backlite to stay on etc... I seem to have lost that ability. When I go to the keyboard settings its just the settings for a generic keyboard and does not have the led settings... What do I need to install in order to get this functionality back? Last thing I want to do it install all of the dell bloatware but I would like to change the setting of hardware.

thanks

 

I think it should be this one (or the x64 counterpart): http://support.dell.com/support/dow...0&servicetag=&os=WLH&osl=en&catid=-1&impid=-1. The XP version of this one did it for me (same DCP software for E6400). Also, I don't think you access the settings in Control Panel > Keyboard; I've got my brightness options in Control Panel > Dell Control Point.

 

Not sure if I want to install the dcp... when I played around with it on XP, before I did the vista install, I found it to be very invasive in what it wants to control and really just complicated fairly easy tasks... I thing I will forgo the settings for the backlit keyboard if the alternative is letting dell software slow and complicate my system.

thanks for your help.

 

DCP is the only program that can control dell's features