Switch off Monitor from the Windows 7 taskbar with Dark

January 3rd, 2010 . Filed under: Downloads. Tags:

Here is a small freeware app which will allow you to turn of your laptop or desktop monitor from the Windows taskbar.

Dark is a tiny open source .net application which allows you to turn off your laptop or desktop computer monitor by double clicking a Notify Icon.

It has been developed by my MVP colleague Shoban who has also developed TweetMyPC and Gtalk Autoreply applications.

Visit : Dark Homepage.


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    By Nitin on January 3rd, 2010 at 4:57 PM

    That’s a very useful utility. helps in saving power.
    I just found a bug in the utility. you can run as many as instances you want. each double click on the icon starts a new instance of the application.

    check the screenshot.

    By Shoban on January 3rd, 2010 at 5:18 PM

    Hi Nitin

    Thanks for the comments. This is the default option which I didn’t change while developing. Thanks for pointing it out. I will update the app soon :)

    Shoban

    By iwjy on January 5th, 2010 at 4:39 AM

    I hope I’m the winner

    By Jeremy on January 19th, 2010 at 4:49 PM

    Any update yet? I’d also like to request the option to use a single click on the taskbar icon. Thanks!

    By Jeremy on January 20th, 2010 at 2:04 PM

    I’ve played with this some more – see my comments below:

    Could you possible look at these changes…?

    1. Menu choice to turn off the monitor with a single click.
    2. Option at the end of the installation to ‘Start Dark’ – as there’s no ‘Program Group’ created, the user has to hunt for the executable to start the program.
    3. BUG found – On restarting my PC, Dark starts automatically and the entry is in Startup (all correct), although when I right click on the tray icon it says ‘Start with Windows’, rather than ‘Do not start with Windows’. It seems to ‘forget’ that auto-start has been selected already.

    Thanks.

    By Shoban on January 31st, 2010 at 11:36 AM

    Hi Jeremy

    Thanks for the comments. I was bit tied up and couldn’t release the II version. Will do it. Soon.

    Will post a comment here as well.

    Thanks
    Shoban

    By Jeremy on February 11th, 2010 at 3:06 PM

    Thanks Shoban. I’ll look out for it on Codeplex…

    Useful little tool…

    By Jeremy on February 25th, 2010 at 1:38 PM

    Any news on the new version yet Shoban? Your 2 weeks is up ;)

     

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