Turn Off your Monitor Display !!

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Nowadays, I’m experimenting with some hardware and Windows .I’m very happy to work with this. Because, after a lot of reading and googling, doing some coding. Then again, reading a lot of documents

A very interesting thing in doing this type of coding is that, we don’t get  much information from MSDN . Almost all information is available in the MSDN, but it’s up to you to find the best algorithm/class/technology that fit for you.

Yesterday, I tried a lot to get the information from our Desktop Monitor. My aim was to ON/OFF our Desktop Monitor. I have hands on experience with WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) to query the details like motherboard, disks, Operating System etc. With that confidence I first look into the Win32_DesktopMonitor. And in that a method named SetPowerState() is available. And the information about that method give me immense pleasure.

Its like “The SetPowerState method sets the desired power state for a logical device and when a device should be put into that state. And the power state may have the following values, like(from MSDN)

1	Full power.
2	Power save — low-power mode.
3	Power save — standby.
4	Power save — other.
5	Power cycle.
6	Power off.

I’m very happy after reading this document.  Unfortunately, its not implemented by windows. Due to a lot of technical problems.

So..

But using the very common message like SendMessage can solve the problem so easily.

Just copy the below statement and execute..

SendMessage(HWND_BROADCAST, WM_SYSCOMMAND, SC_MONITORPOWER, (LPARAM)2);

Hope you are familiar with first 2 params. Documentation from the  MSDN for the 3^rd param is

SC_MONITORPOWER

Sets the state of the display. This command supports devices that have power-saving features, such as a battery-powered personal computer.

And the 4^th param may take the values like

-1 – the display is being on

1 – the display is going to low power

2 – the display is being shut off

I think it is so simple. Thanks to Microsoft..

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