Change Screen Resolution with One Keyboard Shortcut

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Stephanie Saad — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 07:28:35 GMT

Noah, this is so cool. I'm using it now and it's quite useful. No more properties-settings when trying to set my screen res for demos. :-)

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Michael — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 03:07:57 GMT

Fantastic Noah!!! I am a teacher and currently use a tablet pc connected to a digital projector all the time but I have just received a new tablet PC with a widescreen which looked nasty on the projector. This has solved the problem!! I cannot thank you enough! Best regards, M.

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Christian Rasch — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:07:23 GMT

This was exactly what I was looking for, thank you so much!

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Francois Briard — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 14:39:00 GMT

Thanks very much! Extremely useful. I was fedup of having to enter display properties everytime I had to change display resolution!

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Matt — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 07:17:44 GMT

Thank you so much! I was constantly having to change my resolution on my laptop and this is a lifesaver!

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Erik — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:57:28 GMT

Cool, but useless for me. The main screen resolution change I make is from a 2 screen environment with each screen showing something else to a 2 screen environment with both screens showing the same thing and this doesn’t help.

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Edward — Sun, 20 May 2007 04:54:34 GMT

Thanks for a great program! Exactly what was needed for my work.

Thanks Again Noah.

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Danny — Thu, 24 May 2007 09:52:56 GMT

Super! This makes life so much easier. Thanks!!!

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jesse lewis — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:38:35 GMT

did what it said on the tin (vista premium)

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Ed — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 06:23:17 GMT

Doesn't seem to load on Win XP64. Any suggestions? Would be a super program.

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Joe — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:15:39 GMT

I only wish to change screen 2. How can I make this work for that?

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Andrew — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:51:46 GMT

This is just what I was looking for. I have a 19" widescreen attached to my smartboard (800x600) is best. Thanks for the shortcut!

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ron2 — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:08:18 GMT

thanks for the instructions

i already had QRes but needed to remember how to use it

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justin deguire — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:47:30 GMT

i've been using this for a few weeks and seems to work great - however i just now tried to switch by hitting the ctrl-win-2 combo and it sent my machine into restart mode and when it came back up i got a web page from microsoft error reporting:

http://wer.microsoft.com/responses/Response.aspx/10/en-us/5.1.2600.2.00010300.2.0?SGD=dc134b5c-43e9-433f-bbad-c05139ef95ba

here is the info that was on the page:

Problem caused by Device Driver

You received this message because a device driver installed on your computer caused the Windows operating system to stop unexpectedly. This type of error is referred to as a "stop error." A stop error requires you to restart your computer.

More information

Problem report summary

Problem type

Windows stop error (a message appears on a blue screen with error code information)

Solution available?

What does this problem mean?

Windows has encountered a problem it cannot recover from and it needs to be restarted

Cause

Unknown

Computer symptoms

A message appears on a blue screen with error code information (for example: 0x0000001E, KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED)

Additional steps for you to take

Please continue to send problem reports so analysts at Microsoft can study and try to correct the problem as quickly as possible

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Woodzter — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:41:17 GMT

Is there anyway that this can be deployed through GPO silently. I have tried the /quiet switch also the /qb switch and also the /silent switch but they all dispaly the IE page and the Winkey window at the end.

Can this be stoppped?

I intend to deply a reg file with the appropriate settings.

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wankhedesunil@yahoo.com — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:47:17 GMT

my monitor current resolution 800*600

i wanted to increase that 1024*768

but i change that manualy that automaticaly come on 800*600

please help me

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Ganesh — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 15:17:28 GMT

This is so useful. I had to switch resolutions first thing daily at work, manually.

Thank you.

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marc — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:37:00 GMT

Hey, works good however i have a dual screen and require to change my second monitors res. Or change both monitors to the same res. Any ideas?????

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mystic — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:43:52 GMT

this app is terrific! i regularly use a bunch of different display resolutions (1920 x 1440 for music production, 16x12 when surfing the web, 800x600 for web tv) and clicking into display properties 5 times a day was getting annoying.

this seemingly simply lil app is making me that much more productive at my pc. a million thanks.

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Dmteezy — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:29:51 GMT

Great app! I'm a webdesigner, so I need to switch all the time when testing pages - why did I wait so long before actually going ahead and Googling 'shortcut change resolution'..???

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locos — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:20:50 GMT

Great app. Thanks!

In addition: I surely would like if I hit the win-ctrl-1 that besides switching to 1024 res also the nvidia setup changes from 1 screen (which is my monitor 1280x1024) to clone view (which should be TV+monitor in 1024x768) and win-ctrl-2 would be 1 screen + 1280x1024.

Is that a possibllity?

Thanks in advance.

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Patrick Sweeney — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:40:44 GMT

Fantastic! Why is it that the little pieces of software are always the most useful. Thanks!

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Jonas — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:00:03 GMT

Been searching for so long for this sort of program. Perfect for LCD+computer and the wireless keyboard in the sofa :-)

Thanks Alot!

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J. Harvey — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:39:38 GMT

I was having problems with a "A referral was returned from the server" error. The forum post by Jimmy Brush was helpful in correcting the issue

http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/showpost.aspx?postid=749810&siteid=1&sb=0&d=1&at=7&ft=11&tf=0&pageid=1

<quote>

Hello,

If your application does not have a digital signature and has uiAccess=true in its manifest, it will fail with "A referral was returned from the server."

Applications that request uiAccess=true must have a valid, trusted digital signature to execute.

Also, applications by default must reside in a trusted location on the hard drive (such as windows or program files) to receive the uiAccess privilege. They will still run if they are not in one of these locations, but they will not receive the privilege. You can disable this security feature through the local security policy mmc snap-in.

If you want to create a trusted "test" certificate to sign your application with so that you can use your application on your current machine, here's how:

NOTE: These instructions assume you have visual studio installed and are using a command prompt that has all the environment variables set to find SDK utilities such as makecert and signtool. If not, you will need to find these tools on your hard drive before running them.

***

1) Open an elevated command prompt

- Click start

- Find Cmd Shell or command prompt

- Right-click, click Run As Administrator

2) Create a trusted root certificate

- Browse to the folder that you wish to contain a copy of the certificate

- In the command shell, execute the following commands:

makecert -r -pe -n "CN=Test Certificate - For Internal Use Only" -ss PrivateCertStore testcert.cer

certmgr.exe -add testcert.cer -s -r localMachine root

3) Sign your file

- In the command shell, browse to the location of your exe

- In the command shell, type:

SignTool sign /v /s PrivateCertStore /n "Test Certificate - For Internal Use Only" /t http://timestamp.verisign.com/scripts/timestamp.dll APP.exe

Where APP.exe is your application.

***

- JB

Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell

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Naveed Lodhi — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 06:20:08 GMT

Man........u rock the world.......its a great software.. Thnx

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michael k — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:12:13 GMT

It looked great at first blush, but it goes through reinstall every time PC is restarted. I do not see a setting to change this. It will be uninstalled until I hear about a workaround.

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Joe — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:33:25 GMT

Sweet app, saves me 5 clicks of the mouse every time!

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Justin — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:31:07 GMT

Thanks a lot! This is exactly what I needed. I use a video monitor switch box that shoots the data to the user selected display. Unfortunately, the large monitor display is not hooked up to the Power Backup System and when the power goes out, I could no longer change the display because I couldn't see the monitor to do it from the control panel. This hot key literally saved me 67$ plus shipping on another UPS.

This thank you is literally worth 67$ plus applicable shipping charges. :)

-Justin

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vince — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:28:21 GMT

Hi this is exactly what I need but it does not support Vista x64!

Is there any solution to make it work on Vista x64!

Please help!

Thanks allot

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awshidahak — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:40:17 GMT

Thank you so much. I have a laptop with a crappy screen that every now and then will randomly turn completely grey and will stay like that until a reboot or when the screen resolution is changed. When I use linux this isn't an issue because I can switch to a virtual terminal and back to X with the keyboard but in windows, since windows doesn't have virtual terminals, this is impossible due to the fact that one must use the mouse to change screen resolutions. Of course, now I don't have to thanks to you.

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noahc — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:30:19 GMT

I now use AutoHotKey instead of WinKey since it supports any Windows OS (including x64) and MUCH more. Just combine using QRes.exe here with AutoHotKey. Let me know here if that works for anyone.

http://blogs.msdn.com/noahc/archive/2008/06/14/windows-hot-keys-with-autohotkey.aspx

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Frankie — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:21:21 GMT

It's really usefull for me.. thanks alot~

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Cesar — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:50:07 GMT

I got here by mistake but let me tell you, your application is great! Acer is running a command line at startup that prevent the resolution to change so you will get a command prompt in every reboot. I am still looking for a reason for this. I was searching around and I found your blog. Instead of going to the MSCONFIG and disable the command, I wanted to know why ACER is not letting Windows to autoconfig the display modes. This winkey combinations are extremly useful when going from playing any game to fix a picture with Photoshop for example. I'll keep searching for an answer to my question. Keep up the good work Noah man!

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Rodrigo Azueta — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:26:50 GMT

Thanks Noah!!! This is the utility I was looking for!, I have a customer using an Acer Aspire One, and max. resolution is 1024x600. He need to run a CCTV app and only supports 1024x768.

Thanks a lot!