Vista - Screen Resolution Manager

Has anyone ever used this program? It is supposed to allow each user to have their own resolution when they log on. My wife has some visual issues and likes a low resolution while I enjoy a higher resolution. Currently in Vista, you set it for one, you set it for all...

Haven't used it. Just read the copy on the site. Seems like if you don't need the bells and whistles, you can get a free utility that sets screen resolution(perhaps by command line) and set up a .cmd file or shortcut with the proper settings and put that in the StartUp folder. When you log on, it will set the screen res. Just put one shortcut set to preference in each users StartUp folder.

edit: here's a link to one. Google should come up with quite a few. Also try SoftPedia.com. They have lots of free programs as well as the shareware.

Also NirCmd may do it. It's a free general-purpose command line tool that can do most anything from setting audio volume to window sizes to screen resolution:

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html

Here's an example screen mode setting command to set the display mode to 800x600x24bit colors

nircmd.exe setdisplay 800 600 24

Here's some help for your wife, who can have her cake and eat it too! There are tons of ways for those of us who have visual issues (like me), and do better with viewing the screen in low resolution, but still want high resolution. Ask her to try these, and see what she thinks:

1. DPI - Right click on Desktop, Personalize, On Personalization Page, go to left column to: Adjust Font size – DPI, DPI Scaling: Click on Large scale (120 DPI), and click Apply.

2. At the lower right hand corner of every Internet Explorer web page, there’s a Zoom control that lets you increase the size of every web page, and it stays at that Zoom setting for every page. (I keep mine at 125%.)

3. Open Internet Explorer, go to Tools, Internet Options, General, Accessibility, Select Ignore font styles specified on web pages, check boxes and click OK, then Apply, then OK.

4. Open Internet Explorer, go to Tools, Internet Options, Advanced, uncheck all three:
Reset text size to Medium for new windows and tabs, and
Reset text size to Medium while Zooming, and
Reset Zoom level to 100% for new windows and tabs

5. Open Internet Explorer, click the Page button, click Text Size, and then select the size you want i.e. Large (Largest may be too large).

6. Ease of Access Center – Go to: Control Panel, and Explore all settings. Under the following heading, Make things on the screen larger, select: Change the size of text + icons. This takes you to the dpi settings screen.

7. If you have a scroll wheel on your mouse, use command/ctrl + your scroll on a web page to increase the font size.

( Open Internet Explorer, Internet Options, Appearance, Fonts, How to ignore present fonts - The notes refer you to numbers 2, 4, 5 and 7).