Request a tiny custom app again

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Knifegrab: Jul 30, 2014; Gadzooks! I'm terrified of this little child who is going to stab me with a knife. I must wrest the knife away from his control and therefore gain the upperhand.

I was wondering if there were an app that could dim my monitors after I go idle for a set amount of time. Windows recently removed this functionality from 8.1.

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Knifegrab: Jul 30, 2014; Gadzooks! I'm terrified of this little child who is going to stab me with a knife. I must wrest the knife away from his control and therefore gain the upperhand.

Chunjee posted:

PowerDimmer http://www.whitsoftdev.com/powerdimmer/ might work. It has to be installed as a screensaver. According to google searches; put it in C:\Windows\SysWOW64 on a 64-bit system.

Unfortunately I want the program to work so when my custom screensaver comes on it is dimmer, so it cannot replace my screensaver. Thank you though.

# ¿ Jan 9, 2015 22:45

Knifegrab: Jul 30, 2014; Gadzooks! I'm terrified of this little child who is going to stab me with a knife. I must wrest the knife away from his control and therefore gain the upperhand.

Chunjee posted:

If there isn't a good solution; tomorrow I will have time to try something. But are we talking about controlling the LCD backlight? Not sure how to do that but I do know how to overlay a transparent black box over the screen.

Not sure if that will apply the same type of effect but if you want to try I'd certainly appreciate it! Ideally lowering the backlight is what I am after.

# ¿ Jan 13, 2015 01:33

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