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    • RussR
      Russ @Trenton Lawson
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      @Trenton-Lawson, maybe the video card or monitor, but it might even be the motherboard because of what you told me about the keyboard and mouse flashing.

      Russell VanderMey

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      • XanderX
        Xander
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        NirCMD (https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html) can do this with a single command: nircmd.exe monitor off

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          raeyatd
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          someone help me!!! when I use the command 'wscript d: \ scripts \ key.vbs PRTSC' it says that the script file 'd: \ scripts \ key.vbs' could not be found.

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            raeyatd @raeyatd
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            @raeyatd said in Turn monitors on and off:

            someone help me!!! when I use the command 'wscript d: \ scripts \ key.vbs PRTSC' it says that the script file 'd: \ scripts \ key.vbs' could not be found.

            @Russ please

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            • RussR
              Russ @raeyatd
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              @raeyatd, for that to work, you'd need to have a 😧 drive with a scripts folder in the root of it, and you'd need to create the key.vbs file. If you don't have a 😧 drive, you could use your 😄 drive.

              These are the contents of that key.vbs for quick reference:

              Dim Wsh
              Set Wsh = Wscript.CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
              Wsh.SendKeys "{" + WScript.Arguments.Item(0) +"}"

              Russell VanderMey

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              • Rhadson MatiasR
                Rhadson Matias @Russ
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                @Russ

                I have more than one monitor, can you choose which one to turn off?

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                • RussR
                  Russ @Rhadson Matias
                  last edited by Russ

                  @Rhadson-Matias, I don't know of any tools that can turn specific monitors off. I'll have to do some research.

                  At first I thought you were asking if you can shutdown a second computer. For that you could say something like this:

                  Alexa, turn off power on laptop.

                  Power is the voice word for the command on the computer with laptop as its voice word.

                  Russell VanderMey

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                    SniperVB @Russ
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                    @Russ Hii, did you find a way to turn a specific monitor off? Or at least just a second screen?

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                    • XanderX
                      Xander
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                      "Enable/disable/configure multiple monitors on Windows"
                      https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/multi_monitor_tool.html

                      MultiMonitorTool.exe /disable \.\DISPLAY3

                      And, for single monitors, my comment from a year ago still works.

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                      • Fernando Montes VázquezF
                        Fernando Montes Vázquez
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