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Turn off monitor on del Vostro 1500 while laptop in use?
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Mar 15, 20262224 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Since I'm blind and use screen reading software I don't need to use my laptop's monitor and it's nothing but a battery drain. Is there a way to turn off the monitor on a del Vostro 1500 laptop while I'm using it? The only option I've found is to have it power off while the laptop is idle.
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Fn-DownArrow (type several times) will lower the backlight. That's a major source of power drain. Other Dells I've had have supported turning off the LCD with a different Fn key, but I don't have a Vostro 1500 in front of me to see if that works. Fn…
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