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spacegravity4me
2011-03-18T23:53:38Z
Hi, I'm very new to this and I am having a problem. I am trying to set my computer so that it will turn the screen off at a certain time every night. I began by clicking "add job" and then naming it test. Then I selected triggers, then add, and then time interval, then selected a time. After that I clicked tasks, then add, then system, then control monitor. I select turn monitor off and then click ok. Then I save the whole thing. At first i set a time for it to run that was only about 2 minutes ahead of when I made the task so I could test it and see if it worked. So I waited a few minutes, the time came and nothing happened. If I click "run job" I get a pop up that say job started but still nothing happens. I feel I may be missing a crucial step but I really don't know what it is. Any help is appreciated. Thank you.
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spacegravity4me
2011-03-19T18:37:30Z
bump. Anyone know why it isn't working?
spacegravity4me
2011-03-20T17:38:56Z
can support tell me something?
ErikC
2011-03-21T08:20:26Z
Hi spacegravity4me,

Welcome to the forum!

I tried it the way you decribed it, and indeed the screen won't turn off.
It might be (in my situation) because I take over a computer running VC and not working on the machine itself.

It could be something to do with foreground / background execution, but it is set to background and you can not change this.

Could also be the case that your monitor isn't supporting this feature...

The way you did it is the way you should do it, so you don't have to question yourself.


Any other thoughts or suggestions?


Regards,
Erik
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Support
2011-03-21T10:00:50Z
We will test this. It was a while ago we tested this. Please tell us your operating system and if it is 32 or 64 bit. Any service packs would be interesting to know as well.
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Support
2011-03-21T10:10:11Z
Ok, we have tested this. It is, as Erik pointed out, related to foreground Execution.

The reason is, since XP (and maybe Vista), monitor control is session based. The Windows service runs as session 0 and no one is logged in there, except the service, so turning the monitor off won't do anything.

We will make this a foreground Task for the next version which will fix this.
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Support
2011-03-22T00:02:15Z
It is fixed in this version. Please try it out:

http://www.visualcron.co....aspx?g=posts&m=8245 
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ErikC
2011-03-22T07:56:12Z
Support wrote:

Ok, we have tested this. It is, as Erik pointed out, related to foreground Execution.


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