I need a way to put my monitors into sleep mode with a context menu selection

[ian2113]

i would like to know if there are any software solutions or if anyone has a regedit thing so i can put all of my monitors to sleep easily the one thing i tried was nirsoft and it only put them to sleep for about a second

 

[gardenman]

Hi, first you need to find some way to shut the monitors off with a normal desktop shortcut. Try LCDoff.exe from here: http://kev009.com/wp/projects/lcdoff/

Another one: http://www.redmondpie.com/turn-off-your-notebook-lcd-with-one-click/

If that doesn't work, let me know how you tried NirSoft's utility. Did you use "nircmd.exe monitor off" and how did you run this? In a shortcut or batch file or what? If you double clicked on it with a mouse, then maybe the mouse movement woke the monitors back up. Try highlighting a shortcut to it and pressing Enter on it to see if that works. Or if it's in a batch file, you could add a short delay before running the command and this might prevent the mouse from waking the monitors back up.

Once you get the monitors to correctly turn off, add a shortcut to the desktop context menu. Warning: Backup your registry before trying the below section. How to backup and restore the registry: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/322756/how-to-back-up-and-restore-the-registry-in-windows
See the "Desktop Menu" section on this page: https://www.howtogeek.com/107965/how-to-add-any-application-shortcut-to-windows-explorers-context-menu/