None of these solutions really worked as simple as I wanted them too. I really wanted to take advantage of the FN key, but for the life of me I couldn't figure out how to capture the F6 after the FN key was depressed. (I later realized what was working on my dev laptop did not work on the Alienware, so just went with CTRL)
So...
You have to press CTRL+F6
Download here;
Alienware LCD Off
Just place the exe in your startup folder and works like a charm.
This is the code, if you prefer to build it yourself. Just set the window mode to minimized and show in task bar as false.
Code:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
namespace AlienwareLCDOFF
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private const int MONITOR_OFF = 2;
private int SC_MONITORPOWER = 0xf170;
private int WM_SYSCOMMAND = 0x112;
[DllImport("user32.dll", SetLastError = true)]
private static extern IntPtr FindWindow(string lpClassName, string lpWindowName);
[DllImport("user32.dll")]
private static extern int SendMessage(int hWnd, int hMsg, int wParam, int lParam);
[DllImport("User32.dll")]
private static extern short GetAsyncKeyState(System.Int32 vKey);
public void TurnOffLCD()
{
int num = 0;
num = SendMessage(FindWindow(null, null).ToInt32(), this.WM_SYSCOMMAND, this.SC_MONITORPOWER, 2);
}
private void timer1_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (GetAsyncKeyState(0x11) != 0 && GetAsyncKeyState(117) != 0)
TurnOffLCD();
}
}
}
Edit: New Build 3:30 CST: Refined the code, removed from ALT+Tab Application list. Consumes about 1/2 the memory as before.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
