How to Turn Off Your LCD Monitor in Laptop

Interesting! Have you ever thought how to turn off LCD monitor in laptop. Often when you are on a go, hurrying with to get the job done and leave, turning off the laptop seems to get on your head. So is it possible to turn off your LCD monitor in laptop? Of course you can and that’s quite easy. It’s a freeware - NirCmd that’ll get it done. You can even create a shortcut to turn off using it.

NirCmd is a command line utility using which you can perform important tasks without displaying the user interface. Running the NirCmd in the command line option you can write values into INI file, create shortcut to a file, change your display settings, open the door of your CD-ROM drive and most importantly turn off LCD monitor.

Here are the steps you need to follow to turn off LCD monitor in laptop.

Step 1

First download the file.

Step 2

Click on the Start button

Step 3

Go to the Run and click

Step 4

Type in nircmd monitor off in the Run box and press enter.You are done.

OR

Alternately, you want a short cut for the task, here’s are the steps

Step 1

Right click on the desktop, go to New and then to Shortcut. Click on the shortcut.

Step 2

Type in C:\windows\nircmd.exe monitor off in the box. Then press the Next button

Step 3

Type in a name for the short-cut like Turn off Monitor

Step 4

Finally press the Finish button

Now you can see a shortcut to Turn off monitor on your desktop. Click on it twice and your monitor turns off.

Great job, now you have the easiest way to turn off the LCD monitor whenever you like.