windows screen will not turn off

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Desktop, Windows 7.
Settings turn screen off after 15 minutes.
Never turn off hard drive.
Computer is on 24/7 for weather station.
Windows screen will NOT turn off ! !
Thoughts and/or suggestions
Carl,

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Carl,

Is this setting in the main Power Options window, or in the Advanced Settings submenu?

Zig

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Zig,

Both places.

Carl,

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Sounds like the program is updating the display before the shutoff time.

In which case hitting the on/off button when you leave the PC will do the trick!

But which weather program are you using, Easy Weather, Cumulus, something else?

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Weather station is Davis Vantage VUE.

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Drool, I only have the cheapo one. It uses Easyweather and the screen blanks at the appropriate time. I am going to download Cumulus (which I think is normally used by Vantage owners) so I’ll see then if the screen stays live.

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Carl, I think access-mdb might have the only answer: Turn the monitor off when you get up. Most screen savers, power savers interpret data updates as input to wake up the screen and I know of no way to block that unless an app designer has a way so only keyboard or mouse movement wakes the screen up.

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Just to update, my screen goes off when I have Cumulus running so I assume you have something else keeping it on.

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