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First 3rd party application for Vista Mobility Center: Turn off internal display
But while Microsoft packs the basics like display brightness, battery and wireless settings, there are a few other things that would be nice to have, like say the option of turning off your display with a button press.
Microsoft lets computer manufacturers create custom Mobility Center tiles, but has discouraged other 3rd party developers from making custom Mobility Center applications. While some people would see that as a reason to give up and move onto another project, others take it as a challenge. And so Rafael Rivera Jr. decided to see if he could answer a request Long Zheng made earlier this year to add an internal display control applet to Windows Mobiltity Center.
The end result is the first publicly available 3rd party add-on for Windows Mobility Center that we're aware of. You can download the tile from Rivera's site. It comes in x86 and x64 varieties. Once you install the tile, you should notice a new "Internal Display" option pop up in your Mobility Center, which you can bring up pressing Windows+X on your Windows Vista machine.
Rivera's blog post also includes information that could come in handy for anyone looking to develop their own Mobility Center tiles.
[via istartedsomething]
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Mark Dean said 4:40PM on 12-21-2007
I'm arfraid I will have to correct you on that there Brad, I've had a Dell one ever since Vista came out, nothing really useful - but it's there.
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Brad Linder said 4:41PM on 12-21-2007
As I said in the post, Microsoft lets computer makers add features, but has discouraged other developers from doing so. As you can see in the screenshot, I've got a couple of Toshiba apps myself.
Lochlan said 9:06PM on 12-21-2007
Is there some software to do this in XP?
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