Monitor Power Off

[tevert]

Hi,

I apologize if this is documented somewhere obvious, but I've missed it somehow. I also searched this forum without success, but it seems pretty simple:

I a macro that will turn off my screen (monitor). Not hibernate or standby or anything like that. Just turn the monitor off like windows does automatically after a period of time.

How would I do this?

Thanks!

Tony

[tevert]

Figured out something...

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SendMessage -1 WM_SYSCOMMAND 0xF170 2

That gets us close. But it gets in this loop sometimes where it flashes the monitor on-off-on-off-on-off-on-off-on-off-on-off and I'm not sure how to make it quit when it gets started, but so far have managed to get it to stop that loop every time. (Vista 32bit)

[Gintaras]

flashes the monitor on-off-on-off-on-off-on-off-on-off-on-off

On my computer works well.
Try to change -1 to _hwndqm.

[tevert]

How would I make this run when I move the mouse to the top/left corner of the screen and let it sit there for 3 seconds?

[QM Assistant]

Macro
Trigger #1     

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SendMessage _hwndqm WM_SYSCOMMAND 0xF170 2

With trigger #1, when you move your mouse with a medium/high speed to the top left corner of your screen it will run the macro. If you wanted it to wait 3 seconds, simply add a 3 second wait.


Macro
Trigger #1     

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SendMessage _hwndqm WM_SYSCOMMAND 0xF170 2

Someone might have a better answer.

[ken gray]

I just saw this in LifeHacker and started to do some research on the Autohotkey script....just should have started looking here :lol:

Nice work all!