Determining Laptop Screen Aspect Ratio

At logon, we have a script that downloads a splash screen, which changes
quarterly. The default resolution is 800x600. Recently, we purchased a
number of new laptops which have a different aspect ratio and the default
resolution is 1280x786. Consequently the existing splash screen, a bitmap,
looks "squashed" on the new laptops.

So then, it appears to me that I need to maintain two seperate splash
screens, one cropped for each aspect ratio. This, by itself is no big deal,
but I'm wondering if there are any cleaver, relatively straight forward ways
to determine for any specific machine what the aspect ratio is. Once I know
this, I could then download the approprite splash screen. I looked into
evaluating HKLM\CurrentControlSet\Hardware
Profile\...\%videocard%\0000[DefaultSettings.XResolution] where %videocard%
is a GUID. But the whole GUID evaluation seems to be tedious, especially
for a logon script.

Basically, I'm stumped and open to any ideas.

Thanks in advance


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