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Title: Turn Off Monitor
Post by: Carbon Dudeoxide on February 08, 2009, 04:55:30 AM

I just got a new laptop and one thing I didn't like about it was I couldn't turn its screen off other than closing the lid.
I did a couple of searches and found these two applications:

http://www.redmondpie.com/turn-off-your-notebook-lcd-with-one-click/
http://techblissonline.com/laptop-display-battery-turn-off/

I've tried them, and they both work perfectly.
The first one shows a Command Prompt window. The other one doesn't.

Title: Re: Turn Off Monitor
Post by: patio on February 08, 2009, 07:08:04 AM

Very Handy....

Title: Re: Turn Off Monitor
Post by: macdad- on February 08, 2009, 03:48:50 PM

nice, good saver on that precious battery power if you dont have an accessible outlet.

Title: Re: Turn Off Monitor
Post by: computeruler on February 08, 2009, 03:52:42 PM

They have a widget like that for yahoo widgets.  They might have somehting for the vista sidear too.

Title: Re: Turn Off Monitor
Post by: markk on February 24, 2009, 09:11:58 AM

It should just have the option in control panel, under 'Power Options'. that's where it normally is.

Title: Re: Turn Off Monitor
Post by: Carbon Dudeoxide on February 24, 2009, 06:53:52 PM

Quote from: markk on February 24, 2009, 09:11:58 AM

It should just have the option in control panel, under 'Power Options'. that's where it normally is.

That's set with a timer. These apps turn the screen off manually.