Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Change My Desktop Monitor Resolution via Windows PowerShell?

re: Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Change My Desktop Monitor Resolution via Windows PowerShell?

modifying for a second monitor — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:42:15 GMT

Any hints on how to make this target a secondary display? I was looking thru the code and the comments and saw that using this code allows me to see the secondary device's name but I dont know how to modify the script.

$screen = [System.Windows.Forms.Screen]::AllScreens

$screen

BitsPerPixel : 32

Bounds : {X=0,Y=0,Width=1920,Height=1080}

DeviceName : \\.\DISPLAY1

Primary : True

WorkingArea : {X=0,Y=0,Width=1920,Height=1040}

BitsPerPixel : 32

Bounds : {X=1920,Y=0,Width=1024,Height=768}

DeviceName : \\.\DISPLAY2

Primary : False

WorkingArea : {X=1920,Y=0,Width=1024,Height=768}

re: Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Change My Desktop Monitor Resolution via Windows PowerShell?

Jakob — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:39:50 GMT

Nice script.

I am new to .net and Powershell so I wold like som hints to incorporate the "best resolution" code.

re: Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Change My Desktop Monitor Resolution via Windows PowerShell?

JD — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 04:45:29 GMT

Brilliant. I will incorporate this into a Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Task Sequence to automatically adjust the screen resolution to its maximum size once a new windows 7 image is built (which it doesn't seem to do at present). Cheers.

re: Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Change My Desktop Monitor Resolution via Windows PowerShell?

Andy Schneider — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 22:03:03 GMT

@Jon,

I think the .NET framework added some functionality since I last started playing with this. It looks like you can use the following code to get the maximum resolution for your monitor

$screen = [System.Windows.Forms.Screen]::PrimaryScreen

$height = $screen.bounds.Size.Width

$width = $screen.bounds.Size.Height

re: Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Change My Desktop Monitor Resolution via Windows PowerShell?

Andy Schneider — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:16:09 GMT

@Jon,

Yes, this is definitely possible. I actually had some VB.NET code about 3 years ago that would enumerate the highest resolution supported by the monitor that was attached to a computer. I'll poke around and see if I can find the code... if I can.. i don't think porting it to PS would be very hard.

-Andy

re: Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Change My Desktop Monitor Resolution via Windows PowerShell?

Jon — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 09:32:08 GMT

Hey, Scripting Guy! It's possible to set the best resolution ?

Regards

Jon

re: Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I Change my Desktop Monitor Resolution via Windows PowerShell?

hypothesis — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 09:52:46 GMT

Very valuable script indeed!

Thanks a lot.