TurnOffLCD - How To Manually Turn Off Notebook or Laptop LCD Screen
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversWhenever I stop using my laptop but I decide to leave it turned on, I’ll make sure that I turn off the LCD screen.
Reason I do that is I think that maybe it will save a little electricity and also leave my laptop slightly cooler. The Power Options in Windows has a setting to turn off the monitor after X amount of minutes when your computer is idle. Setting it too fast can be annoying because I don’t want the screen to go off when I’m reading something. The best is to manually turn off my laptop’s LCD screen when I want to.
I have an Acer laptop which I can use the shortcut key FN + F6 to turn the LCD screen off and then by pressing any key will turn it back on. Unfortunately not every laptop as such Dell or HP has a basic button or combination key that can be used to manually turn off the LCD screen. It is also possible that the Fn key is not working and there is no way to replicate that key other than changing the whole keyboard which cost around $100.
Here is a simple and easy tool that you can use to manually turn off your laptop’s LCD screen.
There are times when you just want to listen to some music on your notebook/laptop and want the display(LCD) of your notebook to remain off while the lid is still open, while there are small amount of notebook manufacturer’s who provide this simple option of turning off the notebook’s LCD when not in use but many don’t.
Taimur Asad, developer of Turn Off LCD owns a HP DV2799 Special Edition notebook, while its a great notebook in almost every way it still lacks a basic button to switch off the display(LCD) whenever he wants to and not only this notebook but also many new & expensive notebooks lacks this option.
This has led the author developing his very own small application which turns off his notebook LCD just with one click. He wrote this application in C# using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. It is basically a simple console based application that makes use of a DLL (User32.dll) file from Windows using System.Runtime.InteropServices namespace and then calls the required function.
This tool is very small, only 85KB is size and no installation required. All you need to do is just run executable file “Turn Off LCD.exe” whenever you want to turn off your LCD screen. To turn on the screen, simply hit any key on your keyboard or move your mouse.
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Comments(19)
nice job. hp should pay you. i have an hdx 20" goliath and this will come in very
handy.
excellent tool for laptop. just tried it on a standard crt monitor, and it turns off the
display too. neat! even though its designed for a laptop
thanks works good..
shut the lid closed = screen off
or do you sit in front of your refrigerator
trying to see if the light stays on when you close the door?
shut the lid closed = screen off
and for you da's that think that closing
your lid will shut your whole machine down...think again...right click on desktop,
propertie,screensaver,monitor, push power,and look at all the fun stuff you can do!!!
i don't want to shut the lid, cause my f*kin cat will lie on top of it or jump from the
shelf right on the screen.
i wrote a simple vb exe that has one command in it and i simply double click this on my
desktop and my monitors go black.
sendmessage me.hwnd, wm_syscommand,
sc_monitorpower, byval mpoff
and i wrote one for my desktop monitor. it's called power button. i push it and the
screen goes black.
what a f'n tool...
hahaha
oh man what a job of a program.
1. laptop = close the lid. or use power
options to have the monitor shut off at a certain time when not use.
2. monitors =
power options under control panel same has a laptop configuration. or power off by
pressing little button in front of you.
how f*kin cool is that huh?
and for the weirdo saying " errr shut the lid?
by nick on 23.07.2008 - 18:07
i don't want to shut the lid, cause my f*kin cat will lie on top of it or jump from
the shelf right on the screen."
i rather shut my lid that have a stupid f*kin
cat lying on my keyboard or even taking the chance of jumping on the screen while the lid
is open. duh!!!!
where you get those bozos????? where the joker when you need
one. click bang!
it works beautifully. the only thing i really don't like is the command prompt pop up
when i execute it. a little script to hide it while it is being executed works great
though.
thanks
sorry guys, my bad... here is the script:
const hidden = 0
const
waitonreturn = true
set wshshell = createobject("wscript.shell")
wshshell.run
"lcdoff.exe", hidden, waitonreturn
wow! this is great, just what i needed so my mom doesn't walk in on me looking at filthy
stuff! and its great so my cat doesn't jump out of nowhere onto my laptop and screw
around with it! i give you an a+!
a good cat is a dead cat...
yeah!
works great on my desktop too! thank you
got the same problem here with a cat that loves walking on the kb for some reason?? :-)
nothing worse than your screen going off when you have your hands full, especially while
looking at some ladies.
hi, i used this a long time ago and have gone back to using it again!
http://www.grc.com/wizmo/wizmo.htm
does the above and a lot more besides.
aubs
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By J on 23.07.2008 - 03:07