"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.

@russ said in Is server down?:

@cris-silva, @DavidPennington , what's not working? I just tested it and it's working for me.

I know AWS (Amazon Web Services) had problems today, so I wonder if that affected Alexa.

It definitely affected Alexa - every literal Smart device became "unresponsive" (about a dozen) so it's not a stretch that all the figurative (I'm blanking on the right word) ones for TriggerCMD would go offline, too.

In the discussions here, there is one for setting up TriggerCMD with IFTTT. Works like a charm.
"Alexa, trigger Ubuntu" (I find one word triggers work best but experiment).

Create a trigger that calls Nirsoft.net's NirCMD program. It's got a ton of options. I use it to Mute my system but it does have a SetBrightness option.

https://nircmd.nirsoft.net/setbrightness.html

@mikeh_iver After you installed the software on the other PC, copy the commands.json file from the "C:\Users*username*.TRIGGERcmdData" to the it.

@Russ NICE FIND! After only a minute of playing with it, it's near perfect. Only hitch is that the window that keeps getting thrown around has 5 pinned tabs and the tool only seems to recognize the 'Title' of the window with the active tab. That's not the end though because I could have the task scheduler run a batch file with a set of five commands so that one of them will work. It's the only window I keep on that monitor.
Now I just need to figure out the event code for when the USB adapter momentarily craps out so I'll just wait for it to happen again.
Bwahaha!

(Only downside might be if I throw another tab into it for temporary usage. The tool probably won't be able to spot that).

Haven't tried this feature myself but Nirsoft's NirCMD has a "sendkeypress" ability.
https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd2.html#using

Here's my question though -- how does your VBS script send the keypress to the right window or, on your PC, is F7 being recognized by one program no matter what program is in the foreground?

Nircmd has a WIN feature which lets you activate a window so you could use it twice in a new script, once to activate the window and again to send the keypress.

When I say 'good night' to Alexa, I have been having it run my Hibernate command every night to put my PC to sleep. I got to thinking that sometimes I do want certain programs to run backups, etc. so did a little digging and found this script online.
So, every Sunday night, it -won't- hibernate and will run certain tasks.

@echo off
for /f %%i in ('powershell ^(get-date^).DayOfWeek') do set dow=%%i
if %dow% NEQ Sunday goto shutdown

REM in this area, enter commands for things to run Sunday night (backups, updates, etc)

exit
:shutdown
shutdown /h /f

@mikeh_iver After you installed the software on the other PC, copy the commands.json file from the "C:\Users*username*.TRIGGERcmdData" to the it.

@aaaaa12345 That one was suggested a while back and I checked it out but, even with everything (mobo/NIC) configured properly, it still wouldn't work. So I couldn't recommend it.

In this same section of the forum, there is this thread:
https://www.triggercmd.com/forum/topic/715/shutdown-pc-not-working

You will not be able to turn your PC on unless you use something like a smart plug and play with the BIOS/UEFI's power-on settings.
Computers that are Off - are not running TriggerCMD.

@sebastian-rodriguez Not all programs support command line parameters. TriggerCMD can't magically make them accept them.

When I say 'good night' to Alexa, I have been having it run my Hibernate command every night to put my PC to sleep. I got to thinking that sometimes I do want certain programs to run backups, etc. so did a little digging and found this script online.
So, every Sunday night, it -won't- hibernate and will run certain tasks.

@echo off
for /f %%i in ('powershell ^(get-date^).DayOfWeek') do set dow=%%i
if %dow% NEQ Sunday goto shutdown

REM in this area, enter commands for things to run Sunday night (backups, updates, etc)

exit
:shutdown
shutdown /h /f

@dinco WOL works when one device sends a signal to another on the same network. For your idea to work, you'd need to run one command on one device and then another command on a different device.

Nircmd from nirsoft.net has a TON of useful little commands built into it.

cdrom open
cdrom close
cdrom open J:
cdrom close R:

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html

@shandra-dm You can't.

You can lock it but you can't UNlock it. It would be a gross security breach of a PC could unlock itself.

@russ said in Is server down?:

@cris-silva, @DavidPennington , what's not working? I just tested it and it's working for me.

I know AWS (Amazon Web Services) had problems today, so I wonder if that affected Alexa.

It definitely affected Alexa - every literal Smart device became "unresponsive" (about a dozen) so it's not a stretch that all the figurative (I'm blanking on the right word) ones for TriggerCMD would go offline, too.

@russ said in INSTALLATION:

@esgema69, you might be on your phone. If so, you'll need to turn it 90 degrees for landscape mode - then the sidebar should show up on the left.

Never even crossed my mind that someone might be trying to access a site intended for their PC on a device other than their PC