# Turning off the monitor using shell command
**URL:** https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/turning-off-the-monitor-using-shell-command/3506
**Category:** Help Topics
**Created:** [September 16, 2015, 8:16am UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/turning-off-the-monitor-using-shell-command/3506 "2015-09-16T08:16:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@1111](https://community.xibo.org.uk/u/1111)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2015, 8:16am UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/turning-off-the-monitor-using-shell-command/3506/1 "2015-09-16T08:16:06Z")
Hello!
So I’ve been trying to create a layout that would run a shell command that would turn off the display.
So inside Layout Designer I’ve created an empty region and created a shell command inside of it.
I’ve used two different commands already:
shutdown /h
and
nircmd.exe monitor off
But in preview I just stare at the background image and that’s it.
My guessing is that my commands are incorrect even though they are working from cmd.
If anyone can help I would really appreciate it!
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@Peter](https://community.xibo.org.uk/u/Peter)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2015, 8:22am UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/turning-off-the-monitor-using-shell-command/3506/2 "2015-09-16T08:22:03Z")
perhaps try to schedule your layout on your Windows player and see what will happen?
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### Author:  [@1111](https://community.xibo.org.uk/u/1111)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2015, 8:58am UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/turning-off-the-monitor-using-shell-command/3506/3 "2015-09-16T08:58:21Z")
The fact that I didnt see anything on the preview just made me curious.
Sorry : (
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### Author:  [@alex](https://community.xibo.org.uk/u/alex)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2015, 10:55am UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/turning-off-the-monitor-using-shell-command/3506/4 "2015-09-16T10:55:08Z")
Preview won’t execute any shell commands. You’d need to run them in a Player for them to have any effect.
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### Author:  [@1111](https://community.xibo.org.uk/u/1111)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2015, 6:58pm UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/turning-off-the-monitor-using-shell-command/3506/5 "2015-09-17T18:58:07Z")
Thanks!
Sorry for bothering,
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### Author:  [@alex](https://community.xibo.org.uk/u/alex)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2015, 6:33am UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/turning-off-the-monitor-using-shell-command/3506/6 "2015-09-18T06:33:52Z")