general questions

[JLS]

Welshjim, the program you suggested didn't affect my monitor. DON'T feel embarassed at all. You, as well as, many others on here are a great help to me. I appreciate it. I had that monitor issue before I installed tweakiu. I hope that makes you feel better.

I was wondering why sometimes when I move my mouse to turn monitor back on from the monitor power feature in windows under display/screen saver/monitor power settings that my screen stays black and my monitor never wakes up or turns back on. I have to reboot my system to get back into windows. Like I said, most of the time my monitor comes back on after moving the mouse but, sometimes it does not. I was wondering if anyone knows what could be causing this.

[Train]

May be you are using hibernate or sleep mode on the computer?

[JLS]

Train, I checked in the hibernate section under power options properties and enable hibernation is not checked. Where do I check if my computer is set to sleep mode? I doubt it is either of these reasons because my monitor doesn't come back on after moving the mouse only once in a while.

[JLS]

Midknyte, I have been using monitores program since you recommended it and love it. Yesterday when I tried to turn it off by clicking control + F2 keys nothing happened. I tried rebooting my system to see if it would work and that didn't help either. I tried deleting the program and then reinstalling it and it still won't work. Do you have any suggestions as to why it won't work now?

[Midknyte]

Are you sure you checked the autostart in options?

Use the 0.5 regular version. I've had problems with the "lite" version.

[JLS]

Midknyte, yes to both q's. I was using regular version and I had auto start checked. It was working up until yesterday.

[Midknyte]

So the app is running and ctrl+F2 doesn't work? Do you have any firewall or other apps that would prevent it from running?

[JLS]

Midknyte, yes the app is running but control + F2 doesn't work. I don't think anything on my system changed from when it did work until when it stopped working. I can't think of anything that changed on my system that prevented it from working.

[Midknyte]

If you're sure that your keyboard is working properly, you can try contacting the monitores programmer. Maybe he can help or even let you try a beta build.

[JLS]

Midknyte, I just figured out what was wrong. I have a F-lock key on my keyboard that locks the functions of all the F-keys on my keyboard. I must have clicked that by accident at some point when I was typing and not realizing that I did. Control + F2 turns off my monitor again. The programmer did say he is working on a new version that will give the user control to configure his own hot keys to turn off monitor. So, if you use this program, keep a look at for updated version. Again, Midknyte, I thank you for all the help you give me on this site (as well as everyone else). You are greatly appreciated.