Power down the monitors

[vefatica]

I've been doing this for ages in a one-line C program.

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

You can do the same with TCC's @WINAPI. Mouse\keyboard powers them up again.

echo %@winapi[user32,SendMessage,65535,274,61808,2] > nul

 

[Claire_CJS]

Way more compact than using "Nircmd monitor off"!!

Alas, i can't do this anymore. Messes up HDMI chain and whether whole-house audio works. Kinda sucks for the environment but hey, I downloaded a black.jpg to put in the background when the screen is locked. It ALMOST looks off, haha.

That's super-duper cool that all the power of NirCMD was just sitting there in the echo command :D