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Old April 5th 12, 04:50 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Default 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?
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Old April 5th 12, 04:55 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Default 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.

:-(

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Old April 5th 12, 06:50 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Default 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.

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Old April 6th 12, 02:25 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
W. eWatson[_2_]
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Default 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.
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Old April 7th 12, 01:03 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Drew[_6_]
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Default How do I blank out my screen

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
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Old April 5th 12, 09:37 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
richard
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Default 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.
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Old April 5th 12, 09:45 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
BillW50
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Default 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. ;-)

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Old April 5th 12, 10:45 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Nil[_2_]
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Default 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.
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Old April 5th 12, 11:02 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
BillW50
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Default 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.

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Old April 6th 12, 01:57 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Char Jackson
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Default 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.

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Old April 6th 12, 04:09 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Gene E. Bloch[_5_]
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Default 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.

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Old April 5th 12, 11:24 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Default 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

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Old April 6th 12, 01:59 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Char Jackson
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Default 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.

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Char Jackson
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Old April 6th 12, 04:11 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Gene E. Bloch[_5_]
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Default 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.)

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Old April 6th 12, 05:15 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Allen Drake
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Default How do I blank out my screen

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.
 




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