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McGraw · 04-02-2009, 11:44

Hello.

I work from home and use a laptop. My girlfriend's son has a 20" widescreen monitor that his PC and Xbox 360 are both plugged into.

When my girlfriend is off work I let her use the laptop and I use the desktop in her son's room. This is fine until he gets home from school and wants to play on his 360 after he's finished his homework and I'm still working.

So, on these occasions, I dig out a 1280x1024 res LCD that came with the pc. Unfortunately, the other pc is set at 1680x1050 which means I have to mess around with safe mode to change the res and then reboot. Obviously it's not as much of an issue going back the other way.

Is there a more elegant solution to this? Is there any way that Windows can intelligently drop the resolution down or is there a 3rd party app that will?

Thanks very much.

04-02-2009, 11:44	#1
McGraw Inactive Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Manchester Posts: 993	Plugging a PC into a monitor that is set at too low a resolution Hello. I work from home and use a laptop. My girlfriend's son has a 20" widescreen monitor that his PC and Xbox 360 are both plugged into. When my girlfriend is off work I let her use the laptop and I use the desktop in her son's room. This is fine until he gets home from school and wants to play on his 360 after he's finished his homework and I'm still working. So, on these occasions, I dig out a 1280x1024 res LCD that came with the pc. Unfortunately, the other pc is set at 1680x1050 which means I have to mess around with safe mode to change the res and then reboot. Obviously it's not as much of an issue going back the other way. Is there a more elegant solution to this? Is there any way that Windows can intelligently drop the resolution down or is there a 3rd party app that will? Thanks very much.