Turn Off Monitor

Our first impression of Turn Off Monitor was not a good one. We had to use our Task Manager to stop the program because it caused problems from the get-go.

Immediately after installing the program, our monitor went haywire, turning itself off and on without us clicking a single button. After stopping the program, we were able to get a better idea of how it worked, or better yet, how it didn’t work. Turn Off Monitor installs not one, not two, but three icons on your desktop. There’s an icon to immediately turn off your monitor, an icon for configuring the program, and another for turning off your monitor with a confirmation. The settings menu lets you assign actions for single or double mouse clicks, such as hibernating, restarting, and shutting down your computer, none of which worked. We tried to enter a hot-key combination to turn off our monitor, but the program would not allow us to manually enter a new combo. There’s a link to e-mail support, but that’s it in terms of help.

After testing this faulty program, we couldn’t uninstall it fast enough. The 10-use trial and the fact that the publisher wants to charge you for this farce is laughable.

Turn Off Monitor for Free Switch Off your Monitor without waiting for Power Settings to Switch off your Monitor. Turn Off Monitor Software can be used on Laptop, Notebook or a Desktop computer running Windows Operating System such as Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, and Windows 7. To install the Software, all you need to do is to follow the steps provided in the installer wizard. You can unlock the Trial Version of Turn Off Monitor Software Utility by paying USD 6.78 and use it on 1 Windows Computer for upto 3 Months from the Date of Payment of Activation Fees. The Free trial version has the full functionality and limits only the number of uses. You can explore all the features of this Monitor Control Application by watching video tutorial of this Turn Off Monitor Software

Turn Off Monitor is a small Windows application designed with a single goal in mind: to help you turn off the monitor of your PC, notebook, or netbook with minimal effort. It comes in handy especially when you want to save some battery and need to carry out several tasks that do not require the monitor to be turned on.

The advantages of being portable

Since this is a portable program, it is important to mention that it doesn’t leave any traces in the Windows Registry.

You can copy it on any USB flash drive or other devices, and take it with you whenever you need to turn off your monitor on the breeze, without having to go through installation steps.

How it works

Turn Off Monitor doesn’t offer support for a graphical user interface, so you are required to launch the EXE file each time you want to activate the “turn off” mode. The tool doesn’t ask for you confirmation in order to trigger the task. It actually executes it automatically.

Performance

Tests have shown that Turn Off Monitor carries out a task very quickly and without errors. It leaves a minimal footprint on system resources, so the overall performance of the computer is not affected.

What it lacks

On the downside, the program doesn’t sit quietly in the system tray waiting for your command, so you need to manually open the EXE file each time you want to turn off your monitor. It would have been useful to see support for scheduled tasks and user-defined hotkeys.

Bottom line

To sum things up, Turn Off Monitor proves to be a simplistic piece of software that offers a straightforward software solution for helping you turn off your monitor.

Turning off a Mac Monitor

Mac users have it easy. You can use the built-in keyboard shortcut, Control + Shift + Eject, to turn off the monitor without putting the computer to sleep. No third-party app is needed, unlike Windows.

Should you want to turn off the monitor and put your Mac to sleep at the same time, use the Option + Command + Eject combination.

Turning off a Windows PC Monitor

Unfortunately, Windows doesn’t provide a native way to turn off the monitor without getting the PC to go into the sleep mode.