How do I blank out my screen
 

In ,
Char Jackson typed:
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.

I suppose it depends on the player. Some players have a toggle to
deactivate screen blanking while running and some doesn't. And if you
are watching a movie through the browser like the website Hulu or
something, I think you are stuck.

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

How do I blank out my screen
 

On 05/04/2012 8:57 PM, Char Jackson wrote:
I've never noticed the monitor blanking kick in while a video was
playing. That seems weird.

Depends on how the power saving is set. By default, it monitors
keyboard/mouse input.

Wolf K.

How do I blank out my screen
 

In message , Wolf K
writes:
On 05/04/2012 8:57 PM, Char Jackson wrote:
I've never noticed the monitor blanking kick in while a video was
playing. That seems weird.

Depends on how the power saving is set. By default, it monitors
keyboard/mouse input.

Wolf K.

Indeed. A lot of video players have a setting to override it, but not
all (or, it doesn't work - the override that is - on some systems).
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Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty. -Jefferson
Davis, confederate president (1808-1889)

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On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 15:04:31 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

In message , Wolf K
writes:
On 05/04/2012 8:57 PM, Char Jackson wrote:
I've never noticed the monitor blanking kick in while a video was
playing. That seems weird.

Depends on how the power saving is set. By default, it monitors
keyboard/mouse input.

Wolf K.

Indeed. A lot of video players have a setting to override it, but not
all (or, it doesn't work - the override that is - on some systems).

Ok, three of you seem to think this is a problem, so maybe it's a
problem. :)

But it's not a problem with Windows Media Player, Media Player
Classic, nor with Firefox when playing youtube videos, or even with
Firefox simply parked on a youtube video that has long since stopped
playing. So which video players exhibit this problem?

--

Char Jackson

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On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:59:48 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

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.

I think here you will find rather strange things mating up some of
the time.

How do I blank out my screen
 

On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:03:51 -0700, Evan Platt
wrote:

On Thu, 5 Apr 2012 16:37:12 -0400, richard wrote:

press the power button on the monitor.

**** richard

You just made my point.

How do I blank out my screen
 

On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:11:36 -0700, Gene E. Bloch
wrote:

[snip]

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.)

There are other approaches. This is from my sig collection:

"All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that
the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore,
if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all
means, do not use a hammer." -- IBM maintenance manual, 1925

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

How do I blank out my screen
 

On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:17:11 -0700, Gene Wirchenko
wrote:

On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:11:36 -0700, Gene E. Bloch
wrote:

[snip]

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.)

There are other approaches. This is from my sig collection:

"All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that
the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore,
if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all
means, do not use a hammer." -- IBM maintenance manual, 1925

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko


That will soon change. There is a woman running that place now and
everyone wants her to play golf.

How do I blank out my screen
 

On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:15:08 -0400, Allen Drake
wrote:

On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:59:48 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

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.

I think here you will find rather strange things mating up some of
the time.

Yes, of course, but we were talking about connectors. ;-)

--

Char Jackson

How do I blank out my screen
 

On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:19:58 -0400, Allen Drake
wrote:

On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:17:11 -0700, Gene Wirchenko
wrote:

On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:11:36 -0700, Gene E. Bloch
wrote:

[snip]

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.)

There are other approaches. This is from my sig collection:

"All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that
the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore,
if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all
means, do not use a hammer." -- IBM maintenance manual, 1925

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko


That will soon change. There is a woman running that place now and
everyone wants her to play golf.

Gene's quote is gender neutral. It doesn't matter if a man, a woman,
or a goat is running IBM. The quote endures through all of that.

--

Char Jackson

How do I blank out my screen
 

On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:02:17 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:15:08 -0400, Allen Drake
wrote:

On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:59:48 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

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.

I think here you will find rather strange things mating up some of
the time.

Yes, of course, but we were talking about connectors. ;-)

I thought it was now about goats.

How do I blank out my screen
 

On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:11:40 -0400, Allen Drake
wrote:

On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:02:17 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:15:08 -0400, Allen Drake
wrote:

On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:59:48 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

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.

I think here you will find rather strange things mating up some of
the time.

Yes, of course, but we were talking about connectors. ;-)

I thought it was now about goats.

You're way too easily confused.

--

Char Jackson

How do I blank out my screen
 

On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:25:55 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:11:40 -0400, Allen Drake
wrote:

On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:02:17 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:15:08 -0400, Allen Drake
wrote:

On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:59:48 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

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.

I think here you will find rather strange things mating up some of
the time.

Yes, of course, but we were talking about connectors. ;-)

I thought it was now about goats.

You're way too easily confused.


That is my best trait. I have it as a disclaimer on my resume'.

How do I blank out my screen
 

On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:02:17 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:15:08 -0400, Allen Drake
wrote:

On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:59:48 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

[snip]

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.

I think here you will find rather strange things mating up some of
the time.

Yes, of course, but we were talking about connectors. ;-)

And many connectors have male and female versions.

From My Sig Collection:

Lowery's Law: If it jams -- force it. If it breaks, it needed
replacing anyway.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

How do I blank out my screen
 

In ,
Char Jackson typed:
On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 15:04:31 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

In message , Wolf K
writes:
On 05/04/2012 8:57 PM, Char Jackson wrote:
I've never noticed the monitor blanking kick in while a video was
playing. That seems weird.

Depends on how the power saving is set. By default, it monitors
keyboard/mouse input.

Wolf K.

Indeed. A lot of video players have a setting to override it, but not
all (or, it doesn't work - the override that is - on some systems).

Ok, three of you seem to think this is a problem, so maybe it's a
problem. :)

But it's not a problem with Windows Media Player, Media Player
Classic, nor with Firefox when playing youtube videos, or even with
Firefox simply parked on a youtube video that has long since stopped
playing. So which video players exhibit this problem?

I know it was annoying on at least older versions of PowerDVD.

Another thing annoying about the blank screen setting was I could walk
away for hours and fully expecting the monitor to be blanked when I came
back and only to find it is still on. So sometimes it just doesn't work.
So I use something that actually works, the power button. ;-)

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