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02-23-2004, 05:20 PM
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Does a program like this exist?
Ok, here's the situation, there are 3 people that use this PC. One of the users (not me) refuses to wear glasses and we have to keep it at 800x600 resolution so she can see. Now, this is a really big and good LCD monitor, and it stinks to waste it like this! Now my first option was to pester her into wearing glasses... but she's too stubborn to. Now, here's my question; is there any program out there that can assign certain video card settings like resolution to certain profiles? If not, exactly which setting can I alter to make her profile look like 800x600 mode? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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02-23-2004, 05:24 PM
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I might be wrong, and too lazy to look it up for sure, but I am thinking windows xp-home and xp-pro have that now.
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02-23-2004, 05:33 PM
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unfortunately, you are. I've tried w/ xp home & pro! Unless of course, I'm missing someting...
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02-23-2004, 05:53 PM
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ok, your right, I just tested it and you can change everything except the resulution
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02-23-2004, 06:03 PM
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really? in windows ME each use could have their own resolution. Dont see why they would remove that.
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02-23-2004, 06:25 PM
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That makes this situation stink even worse.... Argh! Theres gotta be some way!
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02-23-2004, 08:30 PM
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Wait a moment, I can right click on my display properties in my task bar and it shows me all the resolutions I have in 16 or 32 bit. I pick the one I want, and it's changed on the fly. What am I doing that's different?
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02-23-2004, 08:53 PM
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nothing that I know of except he wants to save it as a user account that would change it when user changes.
yes your correct, it is no problem to change the res at any time you want, don't know why not just do that. |
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02-24-2004, 07:13 AM
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I could do that, but it starts to be a pain in the arse... plus my Icons move all over the place like that... I cannot belive one of the worst OS s since 95 (me) has a feature that's good that XP doesn't have!
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02-24-2004, 09:03 AM
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You will need to find a separate program to do this or add a .reg entry to the startup folder. I also found this shareware that would allow you to do it.
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02-24-2004, 04:02 PM
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Awesome! This is exactly what I was looking for! Thanks!! But... How exactly could I do the .reg thing?
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02-25-2004, 07:26 AM
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Bump = the program doesn't work too good... is there a way to do the .reg thing?
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02-25-2004, 10:19 AM
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Multires is bundled with the Omega drivers for ATI and nVidia cards - it works flawlessly on my system.
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02-25-2004, 02:54 PM
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Cool! I didn't know those guys made anything besides powerstrip... Thanks!
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