ASP.NET - Resolution - Asked By sachin s on 19-Jun-12 08:12 AM

Hi,
 How to change the system screen resolution using command promt, if the right click , control panel has been blocked.
I want to increase the font size of the icons as it apperas to small..

Advanced Thanks
Sachin S

Hi,,

For your need there are Couple of tools which can help you in setting the screen resolution

QRes.exe

After getting this you can just simply call

QRes.exe /x:800 /y:600

For more details  refer the link below

http://superuser.com/questions/89302/any-way-of-changing-windows-7-screen-resolution-via-command-line

Try this 

Hold the ctrl key and move your mouse scroller up and down

ya that part i know, it works only with documents, i want the same to happen with desktop icons, other windows etc...

Reference from-

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/vblanguage/thread/f67e5ef8-6193-4e50-a268-b69b6f16a150/


Solution-


The only way to change screen resolutions via code is to tap into Win32 API and call either

ChangeDisplaySettings
or
ChangeDisplaySettingsEx

If you do a search on the web, you can find documentation for these methods, and how to use them. You may also need to look up about using Win32 API calls in your .NET program if you are unfamiliar with this.


There is no built in way in the framework to change screen resolutions.

You may have luck using third party tools that change the windows screen mode like QRes or NirCmd (I found them through the search), because the access to control panel does not control access to modify the screen resolution. 

If at all you happen to use one of the above mentioned ones, this is the syntax. 
QRes.exe /x:1024 /y:768
nircmd.exe setdisplay 1024 768

Hope this helps.