This is a great little tool I found. "MonitorES is a small windows utility that helps you to turnoff monitor display when you lock down your machine.Also when

This is a great little tool I found. "MonitorES is a small windows utility that helps you to turnoff monitor display when you lock down your machine.Also when you lock your machine, it will pause all your running media programs & set your IM status message to "Away" / Custom message(via options) and restore it back to normal when you back." There is a Lite version that just does the energy saving and a Linux port: https://code.google.com/p/lmonitores/ https://code.google.com/p/lmonitores/