For a few years now, I've been wanting a command line utility to change the screen resolution in Windows. It's always seemed silly that a preferred screen resolution isn't part of one's NT profile, but I'm sure it has to do with the fact that you could really screw up your NT 4.0 installation by setting an invalid resolution. I actually wanted this for my job back when I started looking, but I never found anything. I made do without it. That is the Windows Way.
I started my search again last night. Julie sometimes needs to use my computer, but doesn't like my preferred 1600 x 1200 resolution. "Too small!", she says.
Around three minutes into my search, I found the perfect solution: ResSwitch, by a fellow named PJ Naughter. It's just right. Part of the reason it's just right is that the executable is 5,120 bytes and doesn't require any kind of installer. If only more "utility" software were like this.
So now, when Julie logs in, this script runs:
c:\bin\resswitch.exe 1280 1024 32 85
Her resolution switches to what she's comfortable with, and life is good.
Funny that the first version of this program was released in 1997, but I couldn't find it in 1999. I can't remember if I was using the superior Google back then, but this makes me doubt that I was. Google = :)
