Please Stand By is a free software with the help of which you can put your monitor in standby mode in a click. Standby mode is a state when your computer is still running but monitor is turned off so that the computer uses very little power. If you are using a desktop, you can just hit the power off button of your monitor to save some energy. However, if you are a laptop user, you do not have an easy option to turn off monitor of the laptop, and that is where I believe this software is tremendously useful. If you are stepping away from laptop for a while and want to save some energy, just click on icon of this software in system tray to turn off laptop monitor.
Have a look at the screenshot below which shows the system icon of Please Standby:
This software to shut down monitor puts itself in system tray, so that it is easily accessible. So once you have successfully downloaded the software, go to the system tray of your computer. There you will find an icon like the one highlighted in the screenshot above. Just like it says, on a left mouse click you can put monitor in standby.
If you right click on the icon, a menu opens up, as in screenshot below:
As you can see the options, clicking on Enable Monitor Standby your monitor will go into stand by mode. If you do not want that to happen, just click on that to disable this software. Checking on the Start with Windows option, the Please Stand By software would run automatically and situate in the system tray whenever you start Windows. The exit button can be clicked if you do not want this software in your system tray anymore.
Download And Install Free Software to Put Monitor in Standby Mode:
Go the the link at the end of this article to download this software in your system. You will find the download option in the page. Clicking on that, the exe file will start downloading at the bottom of the page. Once it is done just double click on that file and run it on your computer. Thereafter you will have to follow the instruction of the installation wizard. When it is done, click on finish and you will be able to see the Please Stand By icon in the system tray.
Key Features of Please Standby Software:
- Free
- Put your monitor in Standby mode in a click.
- Very lightweight. The size is only 594 KB.
- System tray integration.
Some other softwares have been reviewed by us on related topics. You can have a look at them, such as iShutDown Timer, WakeupOnStandBy, Don’t Sleep.
Concluding Remarks:
Please Stand By is a nice software for putting your monitor in standby mode in a click. You can simply download it as it is very lightweight. Though it doesn’t perform any other functions other than putting computer to sleep, but it does what it says.
