On 4/5/2012 6:25 PM, W. eWatson wrote:
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.

Did you take that same route and look further down in advanced power
settings and change the multimedia settings? I would assume if you
change that tab playing multimedia from "allow the computer to sleep"
that it might be the way to go