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I often want to turn off my laptop display without sleeping it or closing the lid. I may be listening to music and either don’t need the display or don’t want to drain the battery. I could be in a meeting and want to temporarily eliminate the distracting display without waiting the two minutes for power saving to dim the screen.<\/p>\n

Shopping for laptops the other day, I saw a Sony that includes a hardware button to instantly turns off the display. Brilliant! Why don’t all laptops have that useful feature? (If you’re on a Macintosh, Ctrl+Shift+Eject will turn off your display.)<\/p>\n

Fortunately, I found two free utilities to perform this function. Each instantly turns off a Windows laptop’s LCD display:<\/p>\n