huskerscott1968,

I just created a Theme with all red LEDs. I have my touchpad disabled when I plug in an external USB mouse. Now walk me through how you are disabling the backlight?

I just fn alienfx and this turns off the backlight for everything but the power button and touchpad

Ok, FN+F11 and the keyboard LEDs turned off (Zones 2, 3, 4, 5).

These remained red?
Zone 1 Alien Head Power button
Zone 8 Touchpad
Zone 9 Wifi
TactX keypad
Media button keys

Choosing Go Dark has the same results.

I will email the team.

Hopefully other users will chime in with their results of FN F11 and Go Dark.

Here is what stays on when I turn off the backlight (all zones go dark but these):

Power button - Zone 1

Wifi signal - Zone 9

Touchpad - Zone 8

Zone 1 and 9 can stay on ( no issues there), but the touchpad is the source of frustration.  Obviously I am looking to save battery power and touchpad backlight will be a drain.

P.S. Pass along to the team how cool this computer is.  I got it for personal use (I am not a heavy gamer, but this computer was one of the few that you can customize on Dell) and loaded 8 gig of memory, and wow, as promised as delivered.

If i have to, I can turn off permanently, but I hope it won't come to that.

Posted out here to see if other M14x owners have the same issue.

I found out something also, my touchpad is permanently on.  I tried to go to the Alienware FX Edit Action wheel and turn off, but I am unable to.

Just tried it over here and they all turned off when I chose Go Dark. Maybe if you reinstall the Command Center? Follow the steps in that guide to completely remove it, then once you install the latest version create a new theme and try to Go Dark.

Nope. Removed CC per the instructions. Restarted. Loaded (2.6.10.0 A01 Alienware_Command-Center-Not_A01_R298797.exe). Restarted. Same issues with Go Dark and FN F11.