The below list of the top 9 software to turn off your laptop screen manually is designed to save battery life and electricity, who doesn’t like saving money? It is for Microsoft Windows 7, 8 and 10/11 laptops. These utilities are ideal for all those who require running a laptop for rendering or downloading for hours and have a dual monitor setup.
Top 9 Software To Turn Off Laptop Monitor Screens Manually
Monitor Off by DekiSoft
Turn it off for different occasions you want to save laptop battery while still running any task like listening to music or any other. Bypass the query with parameter –y or /y to auto monitor off.
Turn Off Display
Turn off the display when you want without having to wait for the screen saver or power options timeout period. It is useful for laptops and other devices which do not have a display power switch. It honors your security settings like when the display is turned on back, your system shall be locked if you have selected any screen saver and enabled the option on resume password protection in the display properties.
Turn off Monitor
This one is used to turn off the monitor for the system, netbook or notebook which has a monitor. All you need to do is run the program; your monitor will then be turned off. This is actually used for notebooks or netbooks which is used to conserve the battery.
Use it by clicking on the hotkey. Click any hotkey combination in order to activate and hide a program for unobtrusive operation.
Sleeper
Now if you are a power-save mode fan then you shall appreciate a small utility that shall let your system sleep easily. Moreover, it also lets you define whatever hotkey you prefer to run it and active power save mode.
Monitor Energy Saver
This is a small windows system tray utility with which you can turn off the monitor when you lock down your machine Win + L. Now, when you lock it down, it shall pause all the running media programs and also set IM status message to “away” or custom message through options and restore it back to normal when you come back. You should read our tips on how to save energy while using your laptop, your bills may become less expensive.
Monitor Tweak
With this, you can turn off your monitor power quickly.
DisplayOff
This one allows users to power off desktop or notebook display and lock the workstation optionally. It is useful for keeping the display’s USB hub active while the display is in the power save mode.
Turn Off LCD (Discontinued)
This is a small application that is used to turn off notebook LCD only with a single click. To turn the display off, you need to double-click on the file. This may not work if you carry a sensitive mouse that wakes up the “screen” after every few minutes.
ScreenOff
This is a first-of-a-kind 13KB freeware with which you can turn the windows laptop monitor screen with a click, without putting it to sleep. It does not use a batch command. It uses SendMessage visual basic command to send the system, the command to turn off the display. This is a portable tool that does not need to be installed. Nor it asks you to download and install any certain .NET Framework version.
All you need to do is download the zip file, then extract all its contents. Move folder to program folder, and pin shortcut to ScreenOff.exe to the taskbar or start screen.
When you wish to go away and wish to turn the laptop screen off, click on its icon and the laptop monitor shall be turned off. You do not need to lock the windows. This is a free tool that does not put windows to sleep as it only turns off the laptop screen.
When you wish to turn it on, all you need to do is move the mouse or touch the screen if it has a touch screen.
Now, to create a hotkey, you need to right-click on its shortcut and click on properties. There under the shortcut tab, set a shortcut key for it.
It does not have any user interface, it works there in the background. It is very useful to have it around for windows tablets or laptops as it is used to help you save power whenever your drive is running on battery.
Version 2.1 has been developed by Paras Sidhu and has been tested on Windows 10 32-bit and 64-bit. Version 1.0 enabled a black screen saver which turned the screen black. Code has been updated by the developer and it turns off the screen in recent versions.
Must Read: Turn Off Display in Windows 10/11 with Keyboard Shortcut.
Do let us know which one is your favorite and why? Our personal favorite is Monitor Off because of its simplicity and support of different types of screens.
