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Is it possible to turn off only screen, not whole PC? When I put it to sleep - It looses connections, turn off 3G (and wakes it on wake-up), turn off music. So it is terrible. Battery is well enough to work with it.
Is there any ways to say tablet "Turn off screen"?
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Might look in your control panel .. Windows Mobility Center.
My Lenovo before upgrade to win8 had a turn off display there and also has a separate keyboard Fn+F2 keyboard shortcut to turn on/off the display. Sounds like with a tablet unless there is a specific or programmable button... how would you turn on the display.
Put a magnet like picture to turn off display and disable touch without sleeping
Not sure on that one - I'm backpacking at the moment and don't have a screen with me.
Think I've found a solution on different forum: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-performance/setting-display-off-time-puts-computer-to-sleep-at/3849b335-67c6-4606-a443-9dacf4040ace?page=2
AngieAndretti replied on
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For those looking to disable Connected Standby on Clovertrail (and similar) Devices:
A simple change of a registry key and a system restart exposes all the legacy functionality:
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\CsEnabled (1->0)
I can set a monitor sleep timeout and the monitor actually turns off without sleeping the whole device!
I can run "nircmd monitor off" and it actually turns off the monitor upon request without tripping a standby mode.
I get the good ol' power plan switcher when I click the battery icon in taskbar.
I get tons of previously hidden options inside each power plan's advanced settings.
* I had previously tried disabling Desktop Activity Moderator (dam.sys) and this kept my desktop processes from freezing upon monitor-off in Connected Standby mode, but they were still cut off from system devices like sound and network. Since my efforts were to enable downloading to continue with the screen off, this was still unacceptable.
* Power Usage and Battery Life: With Connected Standby disabled, and monitor off, my idle battery drain was ~0.9w (Acer Iconia W510 tablet, WiFi connected, Bluetooth enabled but not connected.) This translates to roughly 30hrs of battery life in this state, before complete depletion. I have my unit set to shut down when battery becomes critical, so we still have a mechanism in place there.
On laptop you can set "do nothing" on closing lid - and it will just turn off the screen with no action. Music will continue, wireless will not drop - just no screen.
On tablet I can't do "close lid" - I have no lid most of time. And blank screen with screensaver does not block tablet - if I put hand in bag and suddenly touch the screen, it will react. So I'm looking for solution to lock tablet and turn screen off without whole tablet getting off =(
Look in your power options in control panel. Default power option is to dim screen at five minutes and turn off screen at ten minutes... then sleep at 30 minutes. On my laptop anyhow. They are all adjustable in Power Options,
Screen Saver has a blank screen.
