These two ways seem working fine in my Win 7. Though I'm not sure (or better, don't care) whether these are documented/recommended for Win 7.
1) Set up monitor to power down in 1 min. Build the app, run it and leave the system idle. In 1 min the monitor goes off, 1 min later it wakes up.
2) Click the window, and monitor goes off. 10 seconds later it wakes up.
For the first case I tested this having the app foreground/background, and all the times it worked fine.
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