Vista - change display resolution

Is there a way to change the display resolution on a VISTA PC using
powershell?

Den wrote:
> Is there a way to change the display resolution on a VISTA PC using
> powershell?

This is C#, but since Powershell is built around .NET ... :-)

http://tinyurl.com/yugpm4

Trevor Sullivan
MCP
http://develnet.blogspot.com

I've followed the link and unfortuantely it ends up needing to access the
Win32 API user32.dll - not good in PowerShell!

http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/CSDynamicScrRes.asp

You can't change resolution directly through .NET it seems
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"Trevor Sullivan" wrote:

> Den wrote:
> > Is there a way to change the display resolution on a VISTA PC using
> > powershell?
>
> This is C#, but since Powershell is built around .NET ... :-)
>
> http://tinyurl.com/yugpm4
>
> Trevor Sullivan
> MCP
> http://develnet.blogspot.com
>

RichS wrote:
> I've followed the link and unfortuantely it ends up needing to access the
> Win32 API user32.dll - not good in PowerShell!
>
> http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/CSDynamicScrRes.asp
>
> You can't change resolution directly through .NET it seems

Oops, my bad. I was in a hurry to find an answer since I was soon off to
bed I didn't recall seeing anything about user32.dll last night, but
meh ... that would be too easy! Ha.

I was trying to think if you could do this through WMI, but I highly
doubt that you can. The VideoModeDescription property of the
Win32_VideoController class is not writable If anyone finds out how
to do the requested task, that would be really cool

Trevor Sullivan
MCP
http://develnet.blogspot.com

It wasn't in the article you quoted - I was trying to track down the classes
he was actually using to perform the change & thats how I discovered the
issue. My first reading of the article was like yours that it was .NET based
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"Trevor Sullivan" wrote:

> RichS wrote:
> > I've followed the link and unfortuantely it ends up needing to access the
> > Win32 API user32.dll - not good in PowerShell!
> >
> > http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/CSDynamicScrRes.asp
> >
> > You can't change resolution directly through .NET it seems
>
> Oops, my bad. I was in a hurry to find an answer since I was soon off to
> bed I didn't recall seeing anything about user32.dll last night, but
> meh ... that would be too easy! Ha.
>
> I was trying to think if you could do this through WMI, but I highly
> doubt that you can. The VideoModeDescription property of the
> Win32_VideoController class is not writable If anyone finds out how
> to do the requested task, that would be really cool
>
> Trevor Sullivan
> MCP
> http://develnet.blogspot.com
>

I have been searching the internet and forums for some ideas but nothing so
far, outside of actual programing, like C++.
Was hoping for a WMI solution but all the video objects are not writeable or
set-able. At least the ones I can find.
This would sure be helpful to have in some situations, so if anyone finds a
solution, please let me know.

"Den" <nana-papa@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> Is there a way to change the display resolution on a VISTA PC using
> powershell?

I have located a freeware Utility called Qres.exe that lets you change
screen resolution from the command line.
It does what I was hoping a powershell cmdlet would do. It will run from a
powershell script and works on Vista.
So it solves my immediate problem. But it would have been nice if it was a
full powershell solution.


"Den" <nana-papa@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> Is there a way to change the display resolution on a VISTA PC using
> powershell?