How do I set my power plan to turn off the display in less than 1 minute?

Question

The lowest setting in a Windows power plan under "Turn off the display" is "one minute". How do I set it for 30 seconds, 15 seconds, et cetera?

I found that the shortest idle duration time you can set in Task Scheduler is also one minute.

The power savings could be tremendous. :)

Answer 1

All power-related timeout options are stored in the registry as minutes, so no, there is no way to set it to a time period less than 1. (0 disables the timeout).

Answer 2

As mentioned, there's no way to set the timeout to less than one minute. You can hotkey this with Monitor Off Utility though.

Answer 3

you could create a script that calls user32.dll to turn the monitor off using autoit tools (or others) and manually create a timer for x seconds...