Create A Shortcut Or Hotkey To Turn Off The Monitor

Shortcuts are the best way to complete a task quickly .Sometimes these shortcuts are dangerous and sometimes a piece of cake .Similarly, today’s article is on a very simple but significant topic which is Create a Shortcut or Hotkey to Turn Off the Monitor. By reading this article you can turn off your monitor without pressing the button which is a really wired and a new thing not experienced by everyone.

What you have to do is we’ll first need to grab a tiny multi-purpose utility called NirCmd from the great folks over at NirSoft. This Swiss-army knife tool can do an amazing array of tasks, including powering off the monitor. All we really need to do is create a shortcut to it.
Right-click anywhere on the desktop and choose New Shortcut

Then you’ll want to browse to the location where you saved the nircmd.exe file, and add the following arguments:

“C:pathtonircmd.exe” cmdwait 1000 monitor off

 Make sure the path has quotes around it, and then you add the extra arguments, which will wait 1 second before powering off the monitor (otherwise Windows might misinterpret your last keystroke and wake back up atonce).

Next you can go into the shortcut properties and assign a shortcut key, and then click Change Icon to pick a better one than the default.
Choose a decent icon for your shortcut. In vista at least there`s a better one for this purpose

You can also choose any of the icons of your own choice. After choosing the icon your work is done and now you can simply switch off your monitor your using a shortcut or a hotkey.

You can also create a shortcut which can do both turn off and lock the monitor