Turn screen off with a hotkey and turn it on ONLY if you press the same hotkey (utility needed)

[SzymonD]

I search for utility software to turn off display (by  a hotkey) of my laptop and keep it turned off until pressing again the same hotkey combination.

My laptop wasn't cheep... HP is huge company with long tradition... but you can't make a little additional key to do it? (like Sony... in several - NOT ALL notebooks...)

I want... I MUST save my machine. Closing the laptop is not always a convenient option. HELP ME.

[y2ken]

You can try the 'Monitor Off' utility, hopefully it'll meet your needs.

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[SzymonD]

Ha! my know-all... 😛 NO, I'm sorry... I know that software - this is what you get easiest when searching in the web. BUT this program doesn't lock a display until pressing a magical hotkey.

Please understand... when you use external wireless mouse... every time when you kick the table on which lies a laptop... mouse detects that move and monitor is on again.

The more when you do something on the table... display turn on again and again (I use 1 minute turn off time in windows settings).

So.. IT'S NOT SO SIMPLE and THAT'S NOT MY ANSWER !! 😛

best

me 😉

[SzymonD]

BY THE WAY

HP released my Envy with I DON'T KNOW WHAT causing display turns on automatically. So if I have setting of turning off the display after one minute, it's keeping off for some period of time and than turns on for a while.

I can't believe that such company makes something like that... and all in SUCH notebook like Envy.

There's few more problems like CTRL+R which activates HP software. ... fortunately solved... BY ME - not you....

or... it lacks LED indicator on num lock key..... TERRIBLE MISTAKE! I have no words for few thing you did....

I'm very happy that I've chosen Envy 17. It's real rocket and very pretty. But that few things make me ANGRY.

PS.

Oh my.... next thing.... I can't believe it.... about this forum. I've just received an email I'm top student yet. With such speed I'll be President of HP soon. Guys..... it's way too fast. Watch what I've done - flood: post after post. And for that I have higher rank? What a nonsense....

I'm sorry for all the negative words.... but as I think... forum doesn't exist for patting ourselves on the back... but for reporting any problems... so... HERE I AM.... REPORTING.

[y2ken]

May I ask why you need this feature or how you intend to use it? For example, are you sending the display to an external monitor, TV or projector? Please also provide the full model # of you system, it may help me to find a solution.

Please also realize that I am not an employee of HP, I am just a volunteer trying to help other users.

[SzymonD]

First:

I thought I entered full model. I can't find it or there's no that information, so let me write it here:

HP ENVY 17 Notebook PC (energystar)

model: L0N56EA#AKD

serial: 5CD4505YQC

Windows 8.1

Second:

I wrote my rasons and needs. One more time:

- I want to save my display (its LEDs, pixels, anything) - at one hand: I love this machine, so I want it to work as long as it can (and I'm using laptop many many hours a day); at seond hand: I never have much money in my live, so I it's the another good reason to treat my Envy well

- I use external mouse which is sensitive, so when I touch the table or kick it involuntarily, display wakes up = turns on

- even if I don't touch table, sometimes in OS happens SOMETHING, what turns on the display - I don't know why it happaning but I know, that if I would turn off the display with a hotkey and the display wouldn't wake up on any other action than pressing again the hotkey... it was perfect solution for me and many customers (I'm sorry I used  in previous posts wrong word "clients" instead of CUSTOMERS 🙂 - my bad english)

As you maybe know... Sony had laptops with separate, individual, physical button next to regular, standard laptop keyboard: button to turn off laptop's display. I'd like to have sofware substitute of it. Just like you can install some programs to inform a user in system tray, if CAPS LOCK or NUM LOCK is turned on or turned off.

Do you get it? When a laptop has no LED indicator for these keyboard keys... than you can install substitute indicator in tray.

And I DREAM of a software which will be a substitute of Sony's  button "display off".

I really can't believe that HP designers can't take care to mount it in every laptop. I guess it's all ab out the money... but that's not fair...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXd155v8Z5U

😉

PS.

Sorry for all mistakes and generally for my english.

[y2ken]

Sorry, I am unable to find a solution that exactly meets your needs.  

If you do find a solution I would be interested in hearing about it. 

Good luck! 

[SzymonD]

Why am I not surprised at the lack of willingness to solve this by creating an appropriate application...
So maybe you can help me than even giving a reliable answer to my question:

May frequent switching on and off harm my FHD display? I mean turning on and off physically (e.g. by frequent suspending and waking up my laptop) or by setting in the power options turning off the display after one minute of idle time?

[y2ken]

Turning the display on and off physically or through software power settings will not reduce the life expectancy of the LED backlight. Things that WILL reduce the displays longevity are high brightness and contrast settings as well as heat/poor ventilation. The 'half-life' of LED panel backlights has been estimated at between 60,000 - 100,00 hours at which time the panel will have degraded to 1/2 of it's original brightness. So with a 60K half-life, using your display 8 hours a day, 365 days a year, it should be at half its original brightness in 20 years! In theory.