Windows – How to set display resolution via PowerShell on Win10 Pro

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I was asked by a client's IT admin to "write a powershell script that sets the resolution manually on bootup". Presumably it is possible if they're asking me to do this. I have absolutely no experience with powershell. My scripts/commands and their errors are as follows:

Set-DisplayResolution -Width 1024 -Height 768

Set-DisplayResolution is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.

Set-ScreenResolution -Width 1024 -Height 768

Set-ScreenResolution is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.

SetDisplayResolution -Width 1024 -Height 768

SetDisplayResolution is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.

What am I missing? Thank you.

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Not sure where you got your example from but in a native powershell there is no command to set the resolution.

I use AutoHotKey. You can build your own script there or use an example from the net.

Or you could write your own function, that can be called from powershell: see here

And of course there are several 3rd party tools depending on your requirements. Here's one example that works with a script as well or here are 7 others. What exactly are you trying to do?

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