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W. eWatson[_2_] April 5th 12 04:50 PM

How do I blank out my screen
 
I'd like to blank out my screen when the keyboard and mouse are not used
for say 8 minutes. How is that done?

Bob Hatch April 5th 12 04:55 PM

How do I blank out my screen
 
On 4/5/2012 8:50 AM, W. eWatson wrote:
I'd like to blank out my screen when the keyboard and mouse are not used
for say 8 minutes. How is that done?


Control Panel, Power Settings.

:-(

--
“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man
to pay for what he does not want merely because
you think it would be good for him.”
? Robert A. Heinlein

John Williamson April 5th 12 06:50 PM

How do I blank out my screen
 
Bob Hatch wrote:
On 4/5/2012 8:50 AM, W. eWatson wrote:
I'd like to blank out my screen when the keyboard and mouse are not used
for say 8 minutes. How is that done?


Control Panel, Power Settings.

:-(

Or, right cick on the desktop, personalise, screen saver, blank screen.

There's an option to go to power settings from there to set standby
times for the monitor, and to change how the monitor is told to go into
standby mode.

--
Tciao for Now!

John.

richard April 5th 12 09:37 PM

How do I blank out my screen
 
On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 08:50:54 -0700, W. eWatson wrote:

I'd like to blank out my screen when the keyboard and mouse are not used
for say 8 minutes. How is that done?


press the power button on the monitor.

BillW50 April 5th 12 09:45 PM

How do I blank out my screen
 
In ,
richard typed:
On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 08:50:54 -0700, W. eWatson wrote:

I'd like to blank out my screen when the keyboard and mouse are not
used for say 8 minutes. How is that done?


press the power button on the monitor.


That is what I do too Richard. Nothing else seems to work better. ;-)

--
Bill
Asus EeePC 701 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
Windows 2000 SP5 - OE6 - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2



Nil[_2_] April 5th 12 10:45 PM

How do I blank out my screen
 
On 05 Apr 2012, "BillW50" wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

In ,
richard typed:
On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 08:50:54 -0700, W. eWatson wrote:

I'd like to blank out my screen when the keyboard and mouse are not
used for say 8 minutes. How is that done?


press the power button on the monitor.


That is what I do too Richard. Nothing else seems to work better. ;-)


So, what do you do, set your alarm watch to return from whatever you're
doing, wherever you are, to ring every 8 minutes so you can run back to
the computer to punch the monitor button?

I think it's better to let the computer do it for you.

BillW50 April 5th 12 11:02 PM

How do I blank out my screen
 
In ,
Nil typed:
On 05 Apr 2012, "BillW50" wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

In ,
richard typed:
On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 08:50:54 -0700, W. eWatson wrote:

I'd like to blank out my screen when the keyboard and mouse are not
used for say 8 minutes. How is that done?

press the power button on the monitor.


That is what I do too Richard. Nothing else seems to work better. ;-)


So, what do you do, set your alarm watch to return from whatever
you're doing, wherever you are, to ring every 8 minutes so you can
run back to the computer to punch the monitor button?

I think it's better to let the computer do it for you.


I thought so too. But it didn't work well for me. Sometimes I know I'll
be away for a while and hitting the monitor power button works fast and
instantly. The flipside is I am watching a long video or something and
never touching a key or a mouse. And having the computer handle it, then
it times out and will turn off the screen. So to stop this nonsense, I
do it manually.

--
Bill
Asus EeePC 701 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
Windows 2000 SP5 - OE6 - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2



choro April 5th 12 11:24 PM

How do I blank out my screen
 
On 05/04/2012 21:45, BillW50 wrote:
In ,
richard typed:
On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 08:50:54 -0700, W. eWatson wrote:

I'd like to blank out my screen when the keyboard and mouse are not
used for say 8 minutes. How is that done?


press the power button on the monitor.


That is what I do too Richard. Nothing else seems to work better. ;-)


Unplugging it at the wall socket is much quicker! ;-)

The CD/DVD writer on the laptop of a friend of mine had gone kaput. So I
found him a stand-alone CD writer from a SH shop for $2. Told him about
it. He went and bought it. I used that to install his program on his
laptop. All well and good. But next time he wanted to use it, he managed
to plug his laptop into the mains and then managed to install the mains
cable for the CD player into the computer as well (rather than into the
CD player!) -- right into the video output of the laptop!

Next thing of course, I receive an urgent phone call. Asked him what he
had done and he said: But I unplugged it immediately when I heard funny
sizzling sounds!

I replied to him that I had had my fry-up breakfast! ;-)

But honestly, if there are a dozen ways of doing something, you can
trust this chap to discover a 13th way to make sure of a mess-up.
-- choro


Char Jackson April 6th 12 01:57 AM

How do I blank out my screen
 
On Thu, 5 Apr 2012 17:02:56 -0500, "BillW50" wrote:

In ,
Nil typed:
On 05 Apr 2012, "BillW50" wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

In ,
richard typed:
On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 08:50:54 -0700, W. eWatson wrote:

I'd like to blank out my screen when the keyboard and mouse are not
used for say 8 minutes. How is that done?

press the power button on the monitor.

That is what I do too Richard. Nothing else seems to work better. ;-)


So, what do you do, set your alarm watch to return from whatever
you're doing, wherever you are, to ring every 8 minutes so you can
run back to the computer to punch the monitor button?

I think it's better to let the computer do it for you.


I thought so too. But it didn't work well for me. Sometimes I know I'll
be away for a while and hitting the monitor power button works fast and
instantly. The flipside is I am watching a long video or something and
never touching a key or a mouse. And having the computer handle it, then
it times out and will turn off the screen. So to stop this nonsense, I
do it manually.


I've never noticed the monitor blanking kick in while a video was
playing. That seems weird.

--

Char Jackson

Char Jackson April 6th 12 01:59 AM

How do I blank out my screen
 
On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:24:16 +0100, choro wrote:

On 05/04/2012 21:45, BillW50 wrote:
In ,
richard typed:
On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 08:50:54 -0700, W. eWatson wrote:

I'd like to blank out my screen when the keyboard and mouse are not
used for say 8 minutes. How is that done?

press the power button on the monitor.


That is what I do too Richard. Nothing else seems to work better. ;-)


Unplugging it at the wall socket is much quicker! ;-)

The CD/DVD writer on the laptop of a friend of mine had gone kaput. So I
found him a stand-alone CD writer from a SH shop for $2. Told him about
it. He went and bought it. I used that to install his program on his
laptop. All well and good. But next time he wanted to use it, he managed
to plug his laptop into the mains and then managed to install the mains
cable for the CD player into the computer as well (rather than into the
CD player!) -- right into the video output of the laptop!


You guys have some strange connector configurations over there. On my
side of the pond I don't think there's a power cable that would mate
up with a video output.

--

Char Jackson

W. eWatson[_2_] April 6th 12 02:25 AM

How do I blank out my screen
 
On 4/5/2012 10:50 AM, John Williamson wrote:
Bob Hatch wrote:
On 4/5/2012 8:50 AM, W. eWatson wrote:
I'd like to blank out my screen when the keyboard and mouse are not used
for say 8 minutes. How is that done?


Control Panel, Power Settings.

:-(

Or, right cick on the desktop, personalise, screen saver, blank screen.

There's an option to go to power settings from there to set standby
times for the monitor, and to change how the monitor is told to go into
standby mode.

Well, I to .../Power Options-Edit Plan Settings. I see Recommended
Setting with its button depressed, so I click on Change plan settings
way to the right. Turn off the display shows 10 min, and Put the
computer to sleep shows 20 minutes. If Turn off is active I would think
I would see the screen blank out every 10 min, but I don't. A week or so
ago it did. If I click on Change advanced power settings, I see a
Advanced settings dialog with choices like Hard disk, Sleep, PCI Express
.... Nothing about a display.

Gene Wirchenko April 6th 12 03:59 AM

How do I blank out my screen
 
On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:24:16 +0100, choro wrote:

[snip]

But honestly, if there are a dozen ways of doing something, you can
trust this chap to discover a 13th way to make sure of a mess-up.


Send him to QA!

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

Gene E. Bloch[_5_] April 6th 12 04:09 AM

How do I blank out my screen
 
On 4/05/2012, Nil posted:
On 05 Apr 2012, "BillW50" wrote in
alt.windows7.general:


In ,
richard typed:
On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 08:50:54 -0700, W. eWatson wrote:

I'd like to blank out my screen when the keyboard and mouse are not
used for say 8 minutes. How is that done?

press the power button on the monitor.


That is what I do too Richard. Nothing else seems to work better. ;-)


So, what do you do, set your alarm watch to return from whatever you're
doing, wherever you are, to ring every 8 minutes so you can run back to
the computer to punch the monitor button?


I think it's better to let the computer do it for you.


Not if you're trying to lose weight.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)



Gene E. Bloch[_5_] April 6th 12 04:11 AM

How do I blank out my screen
 
On 4/05/2012, Char Jackson posted:
On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:24:16 +0100, choro wrote:


On 05/04/2012 21:45, BillW50 wrote:
In ,
richard typed:
On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 08:50:54 -0700, W. eWatson wrote:

I'd like to blank out my screen when the keyboard and mouse are not
used for say 8 minutes. How is that done?

press the power button on the monitor.

That is what I do too Richard. Nothing else seems to work better. ;-)


Unplugging it at the wall socket is much quicker! ;-)

The CD/DVD writer on the laptop of a friend of mine had gone kaput. So I
found him a stand-alone CD writer from a SH shop for $2. Told him about
it. He went and bought it. I used that to install his program on his
laptop. All well and good. But next time he wanted to use it, he managed
to plug his laptop into the mains and then managed to install the mains
cable for the CD player into the computer as well (rather than into the
CD player!) -- right into the video output of the laptop!


You guys have some strange connector configurations over there. On my
side of the pond I don't think there's a power cable that would mate
up with a video output.


Probably true other there too; the chap probably used force.

Or in US Navy talk, "Don't use force, get a bigger hammer"...

(At least they said that back in my day.)

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)



Char Jackson April 6th 12 04:48 AM

How do I blank out my screen
 
On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:11:36 -0700, Gene E. Bloch
wrote:

On 4/05/2012, Char Jackson posted:
On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:24:16 +0100, choro wrote:


The CD/DVD writer on the laptop of a friend of mine had gone kaput. So I
found him a stand-alone CD writer from a SH shop for $2. Told him about
it. He went and bought it. I used that to install his program on his
laptop. All well and good. But next time he wanted to use it, he managed
to plug his laptop into the mains and then managed to install the mains
cable for the CD player into the computer as well (rather than into the
CD player!) -- right into the video output of the laptop!


You guys have some strange connector configurations over there. On my
side of the pond I don't think there's a power cable that would mate
up with a video output.


Probably true other there too; the chap probably used force.

Or in US Navy talk, "Don't use force, get a bigger hammer"...

(At least they said that back in my day.)


The Air Force had a similar saying. :)

--

Char Jackson


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