A lot of details and info can be found here : http://tuneblade.com/blog/

I like it because:

• It’s very simply to use
  • No need to change the current playback device of Windows.Simply press play on the AirPlay Devices detected by TuneBlade
• It’s cheap (less than 9€)
• It’s able to send the music synchronously on various distinct devices (Just like Synology’s AudioStation)

Website: http://tuneblade.com/

As I am lazy and don’t want to turn off the monitors manually using their power button, I looked for a solution to put the screens to sleep immediately – without waiting for the screen saver to turn off the display as configured in the Control Panel > Power Options > Plan Settings… – using a keyboard shortcut.

I found a a first solution based on “NirCmd“: Download it and create a desktop shortcut (assigned with a keyboard shortcut) to: nircmd.exe cmdwait 1000 monitor off

That solution didn’t work fine for me. Indeed, after a few minutes, the screens were always turning back on magically… I didn’t find for sure the reason why, but it could be that my wireless mouse (Logitech) is not 100% quite although untouched…

So, I looked for an alternative and found “Wizmo“. Download it and use it in a desktop shortcut (also assigned with a keyboard shortcut) to: wizmo.exe monoff shake=99

This will eliminate the minor mouse “shake” that a wireless mouse seems to have and which is turning the monitor back on, while allowing you to still wiggle the mouse a bit to turn your monitor back on. (Notice: Wizmo won’t run if you copy it into %WinDir%\System32 !)

I found a post that give all the requested details on that process: http://www.pesikov.tk/blog/request-download-kb-update-hotfix-directly-without-contacting-microsoft-customer-support-services/

Only notice that you must now use a parameter “ln” in the URL to enforce the language of the page. Ex.: http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=1234567&ln=en-us.

This will bring you to such a support page:

Windows is caching the IP resolved by a DNS. So, thinking my DNS was possibly off when Chrome tried to resolve my domain name, I had to view the content of the cache. This can be done with the following command:

The result was clear. My DNS didn’t answer itself and the domain name was therefore resolved by the DNS of my provider:

So, I tried to just flush the cache to see if my DNS would now resolve the domain name. The command to do so is:

For information purpose, here are the commands to respectively turn off/on the DNS cache until next reboot:

Flushing the DNS didn’t solve the issue unfortunately

Neither ipconfig /release nor ipconfig /renew did solve the issue either*… But this post is to keep a note about viewing/flushing the DNS cache only 

* To be continued…

Have a look:

• here for Windows 7, 8.1 and 10
• here for Windows XP

To find shortcuts for other Microsoft products (Excel, Word, …) go to the page Accessibility in Microsoft Products, select a product in the list to open the related page and search for the “shortcut” word on that page. you will most probably find what you need

Notice that you may also create your own “keyboard shortcut” to open a program:

1. Locate a shortcut to that program (e.g.: via the menu Start > All Programs).
2. Right-click the shortcut, and then click Properties.
3. In the Shortcut Properties dialog box, click the Shortcut tab.
4. In the Shortcut key box, enter the key that you want to use in combination with Ctrl+Alt (keyboard shortcuts automatically start with Ctrl+Alt) and click OK.

If the same key combination as the shortcut you just created is used by a program currently running, then your shortcut might not work.