Tech Tip of The Week: Turn Off your Display Using a Windows Shortcut and More

Amazing tip! I find windows 7 shutdown menu very uncomfortable and I use computer's main buttons to hibernate and shutdown.

I turn off my laptop's monitor to save battery life using Fn+F6 (i also turn of other stuff this way). I want to know if you can program it do these things automatically after x hours/minutes. I use an little program called Chrono shutdown to set my computer to automatically shutdown when i want to.

If it's only about turning LCDs off, then Taimur ASAD's TurnOffLCDv101 will be your favourite. It shuts down LCD screens and only weighs 69 KB. But I think it may need additional software like .NET framework. I couldn't run it after a fresh XP SP2 install. After I made the updates, it ran like a charm. Here, give it a try:

http://www.redmondpie.com/downloadscenter/TurnOffLCDv101.zip

This sounds awesome, there'll be no need to reach for the top of my monitor or for the button on the DVD drive any more

Thanks for the tip! Will take a look at this as I've been looking for a utility that would allow me to set the volume on a computer. My mother-in-law likes to show kiddy music videos to my 2 year-old daughter, but being partially deaf, she tends to set the volume very high and I'm worried for my daughter... I guess I could use this to magically force the volume down via a remote script. ;-)

This seems a little pointless to me, I've put shutdown into the default option of my start menu, don't use hibernate and log-off is a stupid default. Only thing I'd want is an automated shutdown at a certain time or after a certain ammount of time. Then again, I don't own a laptop, so it probably would be handy for powersaving where alternative options arn't available.

Here you go: Marxio Timer

Awesome! Now I can finally turn off my laptop's screen w/o closing it!

think i'll stick to using my finger to turn off my 2 monitors thanks. I'm not that fecking lazy!

I think this would be something you'd be like wow this is cool, and then 10 minutes later be bored with it and uninstall. For a laptop that doesn't have another way to do it without closing it it is pretty sweet...otherwise, I don't think its worth it. What i really need is something to quickly shut down things when my boss comes in the office...like this webpage + make it look like i'm doing something constructive lol.

Completely useless for me...

I just got a new switch installed right under my desk to turn off my monitor and speaker and other peripherals etc but keep the system running, and it is much better then this, also there is one specially for speakers, so I can listen to tunes without turning the monitor on.

This sounds cool at first, but I mean really, when would you use any of those functions?

Well, at first I thought it was pretty much useless since the montor's power botton is 6inches away from my hand when I'm using the mouse (practically always ) but actually it will serve to preserve the stiffness of the botton lol

tks anyways

I love this program! Not only is it lightweight, it's well written and very customizable. Way to go!

Sounds kinda nifty.

But mostly it does indeed sounds very extremely lazy lol.

Wizmo FTW along with everything else Steve Gibson has created for the world.. and mostly for FREE as well.

This is a nice feature for laptops =) but when u use a desktop it not really worth it

This is a very cool program thanks for the find.It does a great job.I was actually looking for something like this.