Change screen resolution from systray or keystroke

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Change screen resolution from systray or keystroke

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Change screen resolution from systray or keystroke.

Guess that's self explanatory. If not please let me know what else you need.
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Post by Krom »

What is your video card?
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Nvidia GeForce2 MX
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Incidentaly, I can add they're utility to my systray but I have to rightclick on it, then click on \"Adjust Display Properties\" and then slide the res bar and click close.

I'm looking for less keystrokes.
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Post by Krom »

Update your forceware drivers if needed and you should be able to use this:
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That will work Krom, thanks.
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Post by thewolfe »

This is even better for me.

\"MultiRes works well. You can either run it as a tray icon (two-click access to any resolution you want), or make shortcuts like \"multires.exe /1024,768,32\" and use those to create global hotkeys.

It handles multiple monitors too, if that's useful.\"
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I think you can also add a key stroke too. I set up a key stroke to change between my dad's LCD desktop screen and his wide screen TV, he has a GF4 MX card.
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Post by thewolfe »

Is the keystroke for the GeForce utility or Multres?

How did you do it?
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the nvidia desktop control panel.
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Gotcha! Thanks.
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Post by Mobius »

It doesn't matter what video card you have: PowerStrip from Entech of Taiwan will switch resolutions at pre-assigned keystrokes - fully customisable.
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Post by thewolfe »

Can't find anything in the Nvidia conttrol panel.
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