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Does anyone know how to turn off 1st monitor and leave active the second one using software commands?

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kiu - www.romeosa.com

What does the below do for you? Does it blank both the monitors?



Regards,

PS: Nice to hear from you after a long break ..

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thanks for replies, but all two don't work:
the first solution turn off all monitors and moving something wake up all my two monitor.

second solutino is for shutting down the pc, that is not my pupose

do you know some other solution?

PS: thanks Goyyah, now i'm studying and working, so I've not much free time, but also if i'm not writing in the forum, i see all post "almost" every day

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Dear kiu,



That was not a solution.. I wanted to confirm it before I could google for possible Windows API solutions. It looks to me that it is less possible ( if not impossible ).

Give me sometime .. I will post again!

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bumper

I happen to be also very much interested in this; turning off only one monitor (either primary or secondary, or even a possible third one) at the press of a button.

I've done some research on this issue, but could only come up with a few clues, no real solutions:
http://www.xtremevbtalk.com/showthread.php?t=262334

One caveat: When using Windows' regular power-saving mode to turn off a monitor, any mouse or keyboard activity would make it turn on again.
This means that I couldn't control, say, the video player on the secondary screen while keeping the primary disabled.

I've looked into WIZMO and MonOff, but those seem to turn off all monitors.
There's also UltraMon, but that can only turn off the secondary monitor(s) - so the primary is always on, also when watching videos on the secondary.

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Anyone else came up with a solution for this old post?

in w7 there is a standard hotkey: ^#p

after wich a menubar pops up:

[ Computer Only | Duplicate | Extend| Projector Only ]

Curently running 1 monitor, but who knows:



Would chose Projector only

double postr

Scratch:
Thats for switching displays.
What I want is to send 1 monitor to sleep and keep the second one working.

bump- this is exactly what I want to do.

I'm always watching something on my 2nd monitor and my workaround is a black bitmap that I set to fullscreen.

Here's another idea for a workaround:

Starting with a primary monitor (laptop monitor) + extension monitor (other nicer monitor): Change the monitor setup to Primary only on the other nicer monitor. This turns off the laptop monitor until it becomes selected as an active monitor again.

Most laptops have a function key for this sort of thing, so the question is-- how does that translate into Autohotkey?

if you have a ATI/AMD card, you can do this in the Catalyst Control Center with "Profiles" and "Hotkeys". I use it since years (2nd monitor is my tv) and it works good.