Turn off laptop screen/Schedule computer shut down trick

Trick 1:
Useful for laptops where you don't have a button to power down your laptop screen unlike desktop monitors.

1) Download this small (69kb) program #-Link-Snipped-#. Run it when you need to power down your screen (to save energy, prolong monitor life span etc).

2) You may create a shortcut key (Ctrl + Alt + M for example) for this by creating a shortcut for TurnOffLCD.exe, right click shortcut -> Properties and assign a shortcut key there.


Trick 2:
If you want to schedule your computer to shut down in X seconds...

1) Go to Start -> Run. Type in 'shutdown -s -t 120' and press Enter.

2) Your computer will shut down in 120 seconds. Change 120 to any number (in seconds) you like

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