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    • Trenton LawsonT
      Trenton Lawson @Russ
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      @Russ Any idea on what piece of hardware might be causing the issue? If not no worries

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      • RussR
        Russ @Trenton Lawson
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        @Trenton-Lawson, maybe the video card or monitor, but it might even be the motherboard because of what you told me about the keyboard and mouse flashing.

        Russell VanderMey

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        • XanderX
          Xander
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          NirCMD (https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html) can do this with a single command: nircmd.exe monitor off

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            raeyatd
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            someone help me!!! when I use the command 'wscript d: \ scripts \ key.vbs PRTSC' it says that the script file 'd: \ scripts \ key.vbs' could not be found.

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              raeyatd @raeyatd
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              @raeyatd said in Turn monitors on and off:

              someone help me!!! when I use the command 'wscript d: \ scripts \ key.vbs PRTSC' it says that the script file 'd: \ scripts \ key.vbs' could not be found.

              @Russ please

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              • RussR
                Russ @raeyatd
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                @raeyatd, for that to work, you'd need to have a 😧 drive with a scripts folder in the root of it, and you'd need to create the key.vbs file. If you don't have a 😧 drive, you could use your 😄 drive.

                These are the contents of that key.vbs for quick reference:

                Dim Wsh
                Set Wsh = Wscript.CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
                Wsh.SendKeys "{" + WScript.Arguments.Item(0) +"}"

                Russell VanderMey

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                • Rhadson MatiasR
                  Rhadson Matias @Russ
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                  @Russ

                  I have more than one monitor, can you choose which one to turn off?

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                  • RussR
                    Russ @Rhadson Matias
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                    @Rhadson-Matias, I don't know of any tools that can turn specific monitors off. I'll have to do some research.

                    At first I thought you were asking if you can shutdown a second computer. For that you could say something like this:

                    Alexa, turn off power on laptop.

                    Power is the voice word for the command on the computer with laptop as its voice word.

                    Russell VanderMey

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                      SniperVB @Russ
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                      @Russ Hii, did you find a way to turn a specific monitor off? Or at least just a second screen?

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                      • XanderX
                        Xander
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                        "Enable/disable/configure multiple monitors on Windows"
                        https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/multi_monitor_tool.html

                        MultiMonitorTool.exe /disable \.\DISPLAY3

                        And, for single monitors, my comment from a year ago still works.

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                          Fernando Montes Vázquez
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