Turn Monitor Off

[Charlie]

I have selected under Power Options to turn my monitor off after 30 minutes.
Is there a way to issue a command to immediately turn off the monitor when I
walk away from my computer?

 

[John Inzer]

I have selected under Power Options to turn my monitor off after 30
minutes. Is there a way to issue a command to immediately turn off
the monitor when I walk away from my computer?

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Maybe the following freebie would be worth a look:

Wizmo
http://www.grc.com/wizmo/wizmo.htm

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Proceed at your own risk

 

[Mark Adams]

I have selected under Power Options to turn my monitor off after 30 minutes.
Is there a way to issue a command to immediately turn off the monitor when I
walk away from my computer?

Use your finger to push the power button on the monitor when you leave. I
don't know how else the computer is going to know that you got up and left.
Unless you put some kind of switch on the chair that you sit on. ;-)

 

[shawn]

That is almost word for word what I was going to reply lol.

 

[Charlie]

Your response is real cute. Not much help but real cute. The first person to
respond to my post offered a very nice utility as an option which I used.
Believe it or not, there are reasons to do what I ask in my original post
but I doubt if your little minds could figure it out.

 

[Mark Adams]

Your response is real cute. Not much help but real cute. The first person to
respond to my post offered a very nice utility as an option which I used.
Believe it or not, there are reasons to do what I ask in my original post
but I doubt if your little minds could figure it out.

Sorry about that, but I couldn't resist. Into each life a little humor must
fall---no matter how little it is!

 

[Charlie]

Actually it was rather funny.

Sorry about that, but I couldn't resist. Into each life a little humor
must
fall---no matter how little it is!

 

[witan]

What Charlie wrote was possibly meant to be funny. However, I have
experienced a couple of times bad consequences of switching off the
monitor manually using the power switch. When I switched it on again,
display would not come back on! Apparently, Windows-XP had determined
that the device (monitor) did not exist any more!. The way out was to
restart the computer blindly, using the keystroke sequence: "Winkey >
U > R", followed by hitting the "Enter" key repeatedly to stop any
application or service that might have been running. The other option
is to power down the computer by keeping the power switch pressed for
a few seconds. Both methods are drastic.
witan

 

[Unknown]

They are not drastic if the computer is not running.
What Charlie wrote was possibly meant to be funny. However, I have
experienced a couple of times bad consequences of switching off the
monitor manually using the power switch. When I switched it on again,
display would not come back on! Apparently, Windows-XP had determined
that the device (monitor) did not exist any more!. The way out was to
restart the computer blindly, using the keystroke sequence: "Winkey >
U > R", followed by hitting the "Enter" key repeatedly to stop any
application or service that might have been running. The other option
is to power down the computer by keeping the power switch pressed for
a few seconds. Both methods are drastic.
witan

 

[Frank-FL]

I have selected under Power Options to turn my monitor off
after 30 minutes. Is there a way to issue a command to
immediately turn off the monitor when I walk away from my
computer?

Press the Monitor off button.

 

[Twayne]

Press the Monitor off button.

That advice needs a caveat to go along with it. Some systems need to
see the monitor to adjust it to resolution etc. at boot time. If you
turn the monitor off, it comes back on at its default which is not what
the system needs, and you get a screwy display. So you end up having to
do a Restert to get it back.

Power Options should be able to do it in about 5 minutes, sometimes 1
minute depending on the card/monitor, but if there is a process
preventing it, perhaps one of the many third party programs can help.
Easy to search for.

 

[Charlie]

Pressing the off button is really hard to do when you are at a remote
location. Some people thought the original post was funny and no one except
the post from John Inzer took it seriously. The small utility suggested by
John works great and allows me to darken a monitor remotely. I also use it
locally because it is easy to use.

 

[G. Morgan]

Pressing the off button is really hard to do when you are at a remote
location. Some people thought the original post was funny and no one except
the post from John Inzer took it seriously. The small utility suggested by
John works great and allows me to darken a monitor remotely.

Your original post did not mention anything about remote locations.

 

[Frank-FL]

That advice needs a caveat to go along with it. Some
systems need to see the monitor to adjust it to resolution
etc. at boot time. If you turn the monitor off, it comes
back on at its default which is not what the system needs,
and you get a screwy display. So you end up having to do
a Restert to get it back.

Power Options should be able to do it in about 5 minutes,
sometimes 1 minute depending on the card/monitor, but if
there is a process preventing it, perhaps one of the many
third party programs can help. Easy to search for.

I have been turning my monitor off for years MSDOS 6.22, I
have never had your need for the OS to see the monitor. To
turn off the monitor was prevalent with CRTs to prevent burn
in.

 

[Frank-FL]

The OP said he wanted to turn the monitor off when he
walked away, not from a remote location. My post was not a
joke.