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Turn off Screen.bat
powershell (Add-Type '[DllImport(\"user32.dll\")]^public static extern int PostMessage(int hWnd, int hMsg, int wParam, int lParam);' -Name a -Pas)::PostMessage(-1,0x0112,0xF170,2)
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I'm having a problem using this powershell script on my Asus MiniPC PB60. It does turn off the monitor. I set it up in Task Scheduler to run when the machine is locked. Works like a charm. Trouble is that it seems to disable background processes, too. I'm using this machine primarily as an iTunes and HomeBridge server. But if I use this script, both HomeBridge and iTunes stop working with the machine locked. It also takes out the little utility that controls the UPS, which is connected by USB. As long as I don't use this script to turn off the monitor, everything works fine with the machine locked.

Any ideas? Is there a way to modify this script to turn the monitor off, but allow everything else to keep running?

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