Monitor Power
This program was first released on Friday, July 20, 2007 as version 0.1.
The current version was released on Saturday, July 19, 2008 as 0.5.
Code from a script was taken from the autoit forms and was modified to
fit this program's purpose.
This program will turn off your monitor once it is run, and will turn
your monitor on when it is shut down.
The priority of the program is automatically set to low, and it will
loop every fifty milliseconds instead of ten, in an attempt to reduce
some of the lag that some users have been experiencing..
Notes:
This program adds no values to your registry.
This program has no installer of any kind, and may be run from any
location on your computer, or from a remote location that is not on your
system.
This program was designed to save power on laptops which do not have the
option to turn off the screen, preferably, my own.
This program will most likely not work on Windows Vista, and seems to
lag on some computer systems.
You can attempt to speed up your computers performence while the program
is running, and your computer's performence in general, by doing the
following:
Please note, in order to perform these steps, you must be an
administrator, and running Windows XP Home or Professional, because I
don't know how to perform these steps on other operating systems.
1. Press Win+Pause, or click system from the control pannel.
2. In the system dialog, click the advanced tab.
3. Click performence settings.
4. Click the radio button that says, "Adjust for best performence" then
click the Ok button.
5. Click Ok again.
Features:
1 Ability to keep your monitor deactivated in order to save power
2 Hotkey support Hotkeys will turn your monitor on or off.
WIN+F2 will activate your monitor.
WIN+F3 will deactivate your monitor.
Asending beeps will alert you that the monitor is active.
Descending beeps will alert you the monitor is deactivated.
3 The status of your monitor's power will be shown in the system
tray.
If your monitor is on, you will see
Monitor Power - Monitor On
4 Help baloons will tell you if your monitor is on or off.
This is helpful for screen readers.
Features to be Added
1 Exit hotkey
A hotkey will be added to kill the program.
Download the program here.
HTTP://vrnw.dyndns.org/Downloads/MonitorPower.exe
contact info
email:
matrheine at gmail . com