I prefer to set my main screen resolution to 1366×768 instead of the recommended 1600×900. However every time when plugging in another monitor, Windows 7 will auto adjust both screen resolution to its recommended value, which set my main monitor to 1600×900. Is there a way to not auto adjust main monitor? Or to change the default auto adjust value to 1366×768. Or maybe have a powershell script/batch script to one click to adjust resolution back to 1366×768. Any suggestion will be appreciated.
Windows 7 auto adjust screen resolution when plugging in new monitor
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Nircmd is a nice command line utility that can help. It has an option to set screen resolution and even accepts options to set a specific monitor to a specific resolution.
If you read through the documentation then it appears you can create a command shortcut with Nircmd that you should then be able to modify to add a shortcut to. Look for the "cmdshortcut" command.
setdisplay {monitor:index/name} [width] [height] [color bits] {refresh rate} {-updatereg} {-allusers}
Changes your display settings. The [width] and [height] parameters represents the number of pixels on your screen. The [color bits] parameter represents the number of colors shown on your screen (8 - 256 color, 16 - 16bit color, 24 - 24bit color, and so on). {refresh rate} is an optional parameter that specifies the monitor refresh rate. If you specify the {-updatereg} parameter, the new settings will be saved in the Registry. If you specify both {-updatereg} and {-allusers} parameters, the new settings will be saved in the Registry for all users. If you have multiple monitors, you can use the optional monitor parameter, which specifies for which monitor you want to change the display settings. You can specify the monitor by index (0 for the first monitor, 1 for the second one, and so on) or by specifying a string in the system monitor name. The monitor name can be found in the Device manager of Windows: Right click on the monitor item, and then choose 'Properties'. The string displayed in the 'location' field is the monitor name.
Examples:
- nircmd setdisplay 800 600 24 -updatereg
- nircmd setdisplay 1024 768 24 90
- nircmd setdisplay 1024 768 8
- nircmd setdisplay monitor:1 1024 768 24 90
- nircmd setdisplay monitor:name1 1024 768 24 90
Wow, a VGA CRT? I didn't know people still used those :) BRB, let me get my sliderule, scythe and bow and arrow... :D
Actually, according to the user manual you linked us to, it is supposedly capable of 1600 x 1200 @ 75 Hz
. See this page of the manual.
Maybe the reason why it isn't scaling to the whole screen is that you're setting it to the lower resolution 1280 x 1024
. Does your screen resolution properties show an option for 1600 x 1200 @ 75 Hz
?
If it doesn't, you may have to download a driver for it. You can try the 32-bit Windows XP driver available for download from CNet (so I'm assuming the file is clean because it's hosted there, but YMMV). As far as I know, Windows monitor "drivers" for VGA monitors are just .inf files that tell the system about the supported resolutions... So hopefully this is all you need, and it should work even on a Windows 7 machine.
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My experience has been that once Windows and all graphics drivers are installed correctly, and after the first time you have plugged in the respective external displays etc., Windows 7 (or the drivers) will remember the way you had it previously set up.
I believe however it stores it based on the EDID info of the monitor, which may not always be present or consistent and may often depend on the type of connector used. I have had extremely consistent results using digital connections (DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort), whereas when using analog the computer's ability to "remember" the last settings is sometimes off.
By the way I generally do not use, nor do I recommend drivers for your MONITOR, except for certain high-end models.