Switch off Monitor from the Windows 7 taskbar with Dark

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

dark monitor Switch off Monitor from the Windows 7 taskbar with Dark

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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  • http://windowslifestyle.com Nitin

    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.

  • http://windowslifestyle.com Nitin
  • Shoban

    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

  • iwjy

    I hope I’m the winner

  • Jeremy

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

  • Jeremy

    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.

  • Shoban

    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

  • Jeremy

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

    Useful little tool…

  • Jeremy

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

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