Of course, you can turn off the monitor itself. I've done that many times on my home computer. Especially when I had the old monitors. The only time I would torn on the monitor itself, is when a sighted person needed it.
-----Original Message----- From: chris hallsworth [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 6:42 AM To: Butch K Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: using a computer without a monitor You can't tell Windows to run without a monitor, however you can adjust the brightness on a Windows 7 computer by opening the Windows Mobility Centre, Windows-x. You can also change the brightness in Power Management, Control Panel. But yes, you can use your computer without a physical monitor. Window-Eyes relies on your video card and associated drivers to output text written to the screen. Or so that's how I understand it. In fact, it is the mirror driver that Window-Eyes comes with that outputs text written to the screen and not Window-Eyes itself. Window-Eyes is just using the information provided by the mirror driver. Chris Hallsworth Sent from Thunderbird On 24/08/2011 11:53, Butch K wrote: > Hello list, I read somewhere that the Windows OS has a setting that will > tell the computer to run without a monitor. I'm not sure if this is with > Windows 7, Windows XP, or both. If this is true, can Window-eyes function > properly without a physical monitor connected to the computer? Can > Window-eyes read the information directly from the video card? If anyone has > any experience with this, I would really appreciate your advice. Also, can > you tell me where to find the setting that I need to change to make my > machine run without a monitor. Thank you for your help. > > Butch Kopack > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender > only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is > related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to > [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. > > GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can > manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. > > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
