Multi monitor setup - Can I selectively place monitors on standby?

[luger]

I've got a 3-monitor setup (non-eyefinity, just an extended desktop setup using both the onboard Intel graphics and discrete AMD graphics).

If I'm watching a movie on one screen, is there a way to put the other two screens on standby?

My prior setup was with a laptop and an external monitor and it was a simple operation to collapse the desktop to just the external monitor when I wanted to watch a movie, which blanked out the laptop display. Is there something similar I can do for my current setup?

Or is powering down the unwanted screens the easiest solution here?

 

[KingFatty]

Use the windows+p keyboard command to toggle between extended mode (with all 3 monitors active) to either the "PC screen only" or the "second screen only".

It may be that one of those options will already contain the desired combination of active and inactive screens. But if not, toggle to that setting and right click on desktop to customize which monitors are active and which aren't.

If you can't get either configuration the way you want, you could try rearranging the cables to put the "movie" screen onto whatever port that windows considers to be your "PC" screen or your "second" screen.

 

[luger]

Use the windows+p keyboard command to toggle between extended mode (with all 3 monitors active) to either the "PC screen only" or the "second screen only".

It may be that one of those options will already contain the desired combination of active and inactive screens. But if not, toggle to that setting and right click on desktop to customize which monitors are active and which aren't.

If you can't get either configuration the way you want, you could try rearranging the cables to put the "movie" screen onto whatever port that windows considers to be your "PC" screen or your "second" screen.

Got it, thanks! :thumbsup: