Monitor Off

Monitor Off is small Windows application designed with a single goal in mind: to help you turn off your monitor in order to save some power. It proves to be particularly useful especially when working with laptops, and when you need to carry out several tasks that do not require the monitor to be turned on.

The advantages of being portable

Since this a portable program, it is important to mention that it doesn’t leave any traces in the Windows Registry.
You can copy it on any USB flash drive or other devices, and take it with you whenever you need to turn off your monitor on the breeze, without having to go through installation steps.

Simple looks and easy-to-trigger actions

Monitor Off doesn’t include a user interface in order to help you accomplish the process. It only displays a small dialog that asks you if you want to turn off your monitor. Basically it proves to be nothing more than a piece of cake to work with this tool, as you only need to press on the “Yes” button, and it automatically turns off your monitor and closes the application.
On the downside, the program doesn’t sit quietly in the system tray waiting for your command, and you need to manually open the EXE file each time you want to turn off your monitor. It would have been useful to see support for scheduled tasks and user-defined hotkeys.

Performance

Tests have shown that Monitor Off carries out a task very quickly and without errors. It leaves a minimal footprint on system resources, so the overall performance of the computer is not affected.

Bottom line

To sum things up, Monitor Off proves to be a simplistic piece of software that offers a straightforward software solution for helping you turn off your monitor.