How to turn off monitor permanently ?

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Hi guys,
I need to have access my home PC from office and I would like to turn off its monitor permanently via code from distance. So I used below address to turn off monitor:
Turn on/off monitor[^]

But monitor turns back on with any activity of PC like moving mouse or hitting a key.
I don't want it turns back on!!!
How can I do that?

Any help please????

(BTW, Teamviewer has a feature that can turn off monitor permanently. So I believe that it is possible to write a code like that.)

What I have tried:

I tried the code in this address:
Turn on/off monitor[^]

Posted 22-Jun-16 12:22pm

Sh.H.

Updated 8-Jul-16 12:58pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 22-Jun-16 18:51pm

Does the technique described in the article you reference do the trick?
—SA

Sh.H. 22-Jun-16 19:24pm

Yes...
But there is nothing about turn off permanently.
Even if you know any other technique, please share, if you don't mind.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 22-Jun-16 19:26pm

Thank you for answering.
Sorry, if I knew the solution I would certainly answer. Just want to know what's going on...
—SA

Patrice T 23-Jun-16 2:01am

Why not just switch off the monitor when you are not in front.

Sh.H. 23-Jun-16 6:43am

Because if I switch off, then anyone (like children) can switch it on again. But if I can turn off via a code, then there is no way to turn it on by others.

Member 14558491 4-Sep-21 5:51am

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Dave Kreskowiak · Answer 1 · 2016-06-22T13:15:00

Solution 1

Most monitors don't support being turned off completely by this command. Doing so normally just puts the monitor to sleep, not power it off. There is no way for you to get around this behavior and no documentation that I know of to tell you which monitors support this and which don't.

Posted 22-Jun-16 13:15pm

Dave Kreskowiak

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Sh.H. 22-Jun-16 19:26pm

Ok... do you have any idea to put monitor in sleep permanently?

Dave Kreskowiak 22-Jun-16 23:58pm

Apply your finger to the power button?

Seriously, what part of "Most monitors don't support this" do you not get?

Sh.H. 23-Jun-16 6:45am

Because if I switch off the button, then anyone (like children) can switch it on again. But if I can turn off via a code, then there is no way to turn it on by others.
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And ok, please help me with the code, and let me see if my monitor support it or not!

Dave Kreskowiak 23-Jun-16 14:34pm

There is no way to can turn off the monitor to the point where it will no longer respond to the power button.

Dave Kreskowiak 23-Jun-16 14:37pm

There's a few articles on the site about this. Like "Complete Guide on How To Turn A Monitor On/Off/Standby[^]".

Sh.H. 23-Jun-16 15:23pm

yes I checked it... Any activity in this article will turn back on... and doesn't solve my problem. I need to know how can I control on monitor completely.... for example it turns on via a special key, not any activity.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 22-Jun-16 19:28pm

I could not be so sure (and this situation may change with time), but it seems to me that you know it. A 5 anyway.
—SA

Dave Kreskowiak 22-Jun-16 23:57pm

I ran into this a few years ago at work. The monitors we had could only be put to sleep, never powered off.

My monitors at home cannot even be put to sleep. Nothing happens at all.

Sh.H. 23-Jun-16 6:47am

Ok ok , if it goes to sleep, it is also ok for me! But I need it to be remain sleep. And don't wake with any activity such as mouse or key pressing.

Dave Kreskowiak 23-Jun-16 14:35pm

That's not sleep. That's off.

Sleep will ALWAYS wake back up with mouse or keyboard messages. You cannot prevent it.

Sh.H. 23-Jun-16 15:25pm

I understand,
Have you ever try teamviewer?
It has a feature which can turn off the monitor of client and you cannot turn it back on.
So how it do that?

Dave Kreskowiak 23-Jun-16 16:35pm

Yeah and it never worked for me.

If you want to know how they did it you'll have to ask the people who wrote it.

Sh.H. 23-Jun-16 6:46am

A 5 ???

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 23-Jun-16 9:27am

"Excellent mark" I voted. Can you see voting control, with 1 to 5 stars?
—SA

JU571C3 · Answer 2 · 2016-07-08T12:32:00

Why instead of turning your monitor permanently off just disable the mouse and keyboard then put the monitor at sleep then if the keyboard or mouse move the screen won't power on but don't forget to include in your app a function to enable those our you my friend will have a serious problem.
Good luck

Patrice T · Answer 3 · 2016-07-08T12:58:00

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Teamviewer has a feature that can turn off monitor permanently. So I believe that it is possible to write a code like that.

No they do not turn off the monitor, they hide the display and hijack the hooks related to display. Not the same thing.

They have their own screen saver which eat the monitor wakeup events contrary to usual screen savers. Reason old monitors can not be turned off.
Be sure they hijack all necessary system hooks.
This kind of stuff is far beyond normal programmer knowledge, it is a specialist job which means deep knowledge about Windows internals.

your first step would be to write your own screen saver from scratch (without library that hide all difficulties).

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