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looking for a free portable utility to turn off display and on only with the keyboard

Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2022 12:53 am
by giulia
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i'm looking for a free portable utility to turn off the monitor and turn on with a key of the keyboard maybe disabling the mouse, like the apples imac , or notebook

there are several utilities that can do it (turn off the display) but it's enough a very lightly mouse vibration or even with the mouse off ,the display after a while magically turn it on

I have set windows to turn off after x minutes , but would like to use a free portable tool to turn off on demand and keep off
i wanted to try Monoff4 but the download link is not working

thanks

Re: looking for a free portable utility to turn off display and on only with the keyboard

Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2022 6:51 am
by Midas
FYI, 'Monoff4.exe' sigchk report follows:

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	Verified:	Unsigned
	Link date:	23:24 2009-11-07
	Publisher:	n/a
	Company:	JimBUG Enterprises
	Description:	Put monitor in low power or power off mode.
	Product:	Monoff 4
	Prod version:	1, 6, 0, 0
	File version:	1, 6, 0, 0
	MachineType:	32-bit
	MD5:	B29B0066AAE505850A09A9FB17741662
	SHA1:	41323994C69DC75B640787C520DC7A7B67C50C1A
	SHA256:	BEE2048F1735FF0B44C738F1AEB5BE3B3290B523E8524ED9622B4AD8D113DADE
	IMP:	1488755E92C856C33DA318CD8ABF0CA4
	VT detection:	5/71
	VT link:	https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/bee2048f1735ff0b44c738f1aeb5be3b3290b523e8524ed9622b4ad8d113dade/detection
5 security vendors and no sandboxes flagged this file as malicious
@ Virtustotal (URL above)

Of those 5, main ones are Avast and AVG -- the remainder include household names such as Avira, Bitdefender, Eset, Microsoft, and MalwareBytes, which report the file as "undetected"...