


If you're concerned about extra heat from covering it completely wearing away at the remaining life of your monitor, then don't cover it up completely. It shouldn't be hot enough to start a fire or anything hazardous (if it is that's a separate problem), so buy a cover or use a shirt or a cardboard box, basically anything opaque. Just put some cloth over the monitor & cover it up. Well, give it a second thought, it's probably the easiest solution. Oops, I just read the " I don't want to cover the monitor" line, after typing the next part. They usually only switch the "hot" wire, and of course unplug the wire first! Better search for how to install an inline rocker switch to see some videos too. They're quite easy to install, just carefully strip the wire & attach according to the specific switch, there shouldn't even be any soldering or shrink tubing required.

Use an inline lamp switch / inline rocker switch: Or at least do the next best thing: Install another power switch inline on the monitor's power cord You might get lucky and it's just dirty (like a remote control), or you say " it's missing the button to press" so just replace it with any similar shaped object, wood, plastic, a marble, tape it in & press away. You're just going to have to "think outside the desktop" & tackle the real problem: Fix the power button. You're saying pretty clearly that your mystery program is just not going to co-operate with a software solution. Most third party program stopped my program from running."
