Put Your Monitor To Sleep at the Press of a Button (Windows)
Here is a little AutoIt script I found while trolling their forums that will put your monitor into sleep mode at the push of a button. Both the script and a compiled EXE version are included, so you don’t have to install AutoIt to use. I put a shortcut to the script into my QuickLaunch bar, then changed the icon to the power button icon, and now whenever I am done with my computer for the time being I can press this button and my monitor goes off right away! There are plenty of other shareware, etc. tools out there to do this, but this one is so simple, it’s basically a single line of code. I grabbed this off of the AutoIt forums, and commented out some of the existing code. That code originally would turn off the monitor after 10 seconds of non-use (which is usually useful in a Network Operations Center but not much else).
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