Display

Display (formerly Display Power Management) is a small command-line tool that allows you to either change display orientation or to change the brightness or the contrast of a specified display device (if supported by the display driver and the system) or to turn the monitors or the screen saver on and off to save power.

The package is provided as a compressed (zip) archive that holds a few files. The included files are described in the table below.

File	Description
display.exe	The Display program.
readme.htm	This file.

Display features many parameters, for a whole list of the supported parameters and a description, type the following command in a Command Prompt:

display /?

Examples:

• To turn the default monitor off, use:

  display /power:off

• To rotate the default display orientation by 90° counter-clockwise, use:

  display /rotate:90

When Display is used in a batch file, you can use ERRORLEVEL to check the completion code returned by the program. The possible return codes are listed in the table below.

Code	Description
0	Success.
1	Syntax error or help/registration information displayed.
2	Failure, new mode could not be set.

• right-click the Desktop
• click New > Shortcut
• click Browse
• select display.exe
• click OK
• put a blank after the path and append the two parameters: /rotate:90 /toggle
  

  e.g. "C:\Users\UserName\Desktop\display.exe" /rotate:90 /toggle

  Note: quotes are required if the path contains blanks.

• click Next
• give the shortcut a name e.g. Toggle Screen Orientation
• click Finish
• Pin the new shortcut to the taskbar

April 10, 2014 - Version 1.2 (build 15.3)

August 9, 2013 - Version 1.2 (build 14.5)

July 18, 2008 - Version 1.1 (build 6.5)

January 19, 2005 - Version 1.0 (build 2.3)