How to turn off Surface Pro monitor only WITHOUT it sleeping?

Greetings JordanLance,

We understand how being able to turn off the screen without putting the Surface in sleep can be helpful, however the function is not available. We will pass along the feedback and the request to add it into a future version.

No, this function is available in Windows, you just disabled it on this device (Surface Pro 3) for no good reason. Bring it back.

I listen to YouTube videos before I go to sleep, I don't want the display to be on. The only thing I can do is turn the brightness to the minimum, then turn it up again in the morning.

For Flying Spaghetti Monster's sake, I can even do that on Windows Phone, playing a YouTube video in Internet Explorer with the screen turned off, but the Surface can't do it.

So this thing (SP3) can't even replace a phone, and you are bragging it can replace a laptop?

While you're at it, another thing you disabled is the battery life estimation. Bring that back too.

In fact, the whole power management is messed up by hiding various options and features for no good reason.

Bring everything back.

I know you want to make something that uses as little power as possible with the "Connected Standby" stuff, but taking away options from the user is not the way to do it.

If you want to hide those options under a "Advanced" section, with a warning not to touch them unless you know what you are doing, it's fine with me. It can even be a command line thing, or a registry key.

But don't tell us the option is not available. Fix the damn thing.

This is the single most annoying thing about the SP3, other than that, I love it.

Greetings JordanLance,

We understand how being able to turn off the screen without putting the Surface in sleep can be helpful, however the function is not available. We will pass along the feedback and the request to add it into a future version.

No, this function is available in Windows, you just disabled it on this device (Surface Pro 3) for no good reason. Bring it back.

I listen to YouTube videos before I go to sleep, I don't want the display to be on. The only thing I can do is turn the brightness to the minimum, then turn it up again in the morning.

For Flying Spaghetti Monster's sake, I can even do that on Windows Phone, playing a YouTube video in Internet Explorer with the screen turned off, but the Surface can't do it.

So this thing (SP3) can't even replace a phone, and you are bragging it can replace a laptop?

While you're at it, another thing you disabled is the battery life estimation. Bring that back too.

In fact, the whole power management is messed up by hiding various options and features for no good reason.

Bring everything back.

I know you want to make something that uses as little power as possible with the "Connected Standby" stuff, but taking away options from the user is not the way to do it.

If you want to hide those options under a "Advanced" section, with a warning not to touch them unless you know what you are doing, it's fine with me. It can even be a command line thing, or a registry key.

But don't tell us the option is not available. Fix the damn thing.

This is the single most annoying thing about the SP3, other than that, I love it.

This Is exactly what I think too.

And me!

Greetings JordanLance,

We understand how being able to turn off the screen without putting the Surface in sleep can be helpful, however the function is not available. We will pass along the feedback and the request to add it into a future version.

No, this function is available in Windows, you just disabled it on this device (Surface Pro 3) for no good reason. Bring it back.

I listen to YouTube videos before I go to sleep, I don't want the display to be on. The only thing I can do is turn the brightness to the minimum, then turn it up again in the morning.

For Flying Spaghetti Monster's sake, I can even do that on Windows Phone, playing a YouTube video in Internet Explorer with the screen turned off, but the Surface can't do it.

So this thing (SP3) can't even replace a phone, and you are bragging it can replace a laptop?

While you're at it, another thing you disabled is the battery life estimation. Bring that back too.

In fact, the whole power management is messed up by hiding various options and features for no good reason.

Bring everything back.

I know you want to make something that uses as little power as possible with the "Connected Standby" stuff, but taking away options from the user is not the way to do it.

If you want to hide those options under a "Advanced" section, with a warning not to touch them unless you know what you are doing, it's fine with me. It can even be a command line thing, or a registry key.

But don't tell us the option is not available. Fix the damn thing.

This is the single most annoying thing about the SP3, other than that, I love it.

Yeah, I agree completely too, this is simply frustrating. How could MS not have realised people would want to turn the screen off whilst programs continued to function, it beggars belief it really does. Pretty passed off tbh.

And, for all those who say you can go in to the advanced power settings and change the 'turn off display after' settings... no you can't this just changes the sleep setting, even though it doesn't say this is what it is doing. You cannot set a different sleep and display time out, you change one, it changes the other, so you can't have a 'never' sleep timeout and a 20 minute (or whatever) display timeout, they both change to the same value for whichever setting you changed last. Stupid stupid stupid. This better be a software update soon.