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Hello:

As noted, x140e, Windows 7 64 Professional.

I want my display to act like the one on my ''ThinkCentre' desktop does - shut itself off after 10 minutes of inactivity. I have messed around with both Windows Control Panel Personalization and Lenovo's Power Manager app where such things are theoretically changeable, all to no avail. The screen just keeps staring at me!

I 'Never' want it to dim, and always want to 'Turn Display Off' after 10 minutes of inactivity. I've tried to replicate the settings I use on my desktop, but they don't seem to have the same effect!

Seems simple enough, but not so's you'd notice!

Can anyone help?

Thank you.

JK

Welcome to the forum!

When you open up the Power Manager, go into Options and choose that Fn+F3 shuts the screen off.

Does it "listen" now?

ajkula66 wrote:Welcome to the forum!

When you open up the Power Manager, go into Options and choose that Fn+F3 shuts the screen off.

Does it "listen" now?

Hi George:

Thanks for your reply!

When I launch Power Manager, I do not see an 'Options', um, 'option' as such! So the Fn+F3 option does not appear to be available to me.

Besides, that isn't quite what I was looking for. I don't want to have to do anything to shut the display off; I'm looking for something that will automatically turn the display off if I have not accessed the computer for a given amount of time, just as my desktop does.

In Power Manager I do see 'Change when the display turns off', which would SEEM to be what I want! I select '10 minutes' for both Battery and AC usage, but it doesn't do it!

Also, whilst fiddling around trying to make this happen, I now seem to have activated some sort of 'dim' function which dims the screen if it hasn't been accessed for an even shorter time.

Very annoying!

There are settings both within Power Manager and in Windows' Control Panel that are supposed to make this work, but I can't seem to find the right combination. I'm SURE it did this before, and as noted my desktop clearly does it. So I know it is possible - I just can't remember how I got there on the desktop, or how I messed it up on the laptop!!

Thanks again for any suggestions.

Cheers,

JK

jimkenzie wrote:In Power Manager I do see 'Change when the display turns off', which would SEEM to be what I want! I select '10 minutes' for both Battery and AC usage, but it doesn't do it!

Do you have any programs running that might prevent the computer going "idle"?

Perhaps you need to install the Hotkey Features package.

http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product ... s/DS101334