Re: Forcing a Screen Resolution

From: Smurfman (smurfman_at_news.postalias)
Date: 03/01/05 

Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 06:33:03 -0800

Hi Frances, thanks for the reply.

The two machines are HP D530 Business machines, and both have ViewSonic 17"
LCD screens attached.

Both are windows XP Pro, one is SP2, the other is SP1a

In both cases I logged in as an admin, changed the screen resolution to be
1024x768. And this setting stays true, even when I log off as admin, and log
back on as admin.

BUT - the users do not have rights to access the desktop settings and change
the resolution. HOWEVER, after a normal network user logs on, the resolution
resets back to the default or optimum setting of the ViewSonic something like
1200 x 1200 and it is really small. I can't seem to figure this one out...so
I thought if I could force the resolution in some way that would be even
better.

the v-franhe address is @microsoft.com I presume?

Thanks

J

"Frances [MSFT]" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Thank you for your posting.
>
> According to your message, I understand that you want to use a policy to
> set the resolution. As far as I know, there is no such policy.
>
> I think when you set the resolution to be 1024x768 as an admin, the other
> user will also open the computer with the same resolution. So the behavior
> of the workstation is not proper. Have you got some error messages? What is
> the OS of the workstation? Please give me more information about the
> workstation.
>
> You mentioned you had 2 new machines that are behaving this way. Do they
> have something in common?
>
> Please help me gather the following information. Download MPSRPT
> SetupPerf.exe and MPSRPT SetupPerf readme.txt from the link below. Then run
> MPSRPT SETUPPerf.exe in your workstation. Please send the result to
> v-franhe for further research.
>
> Microsoft Product Support's Reporting Tools
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=cebf3c7c-7ca5-408f-
> 88b7-f9c79b7306c0&DisplayLang=en
>
> I am looking forward to your reply.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Frances He
>
>
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