Change screen resolution using command prompt.
Change screen resolution windows 10 cmd.
Also changing the screen resolution will affect all users registered in the os.
It also supports the screen resolutions which are incompatible with your monitor.
The below command prints desktop resolution for all the available monitors on the system.
This will act identically to changing the resolution from the display settings.
In the properties click on the button that reads list all modes this will display all the resolutions that your display adapter supports which is likely to be many more than windows 10 does.
Type cmd and press enter in add qres folder address bar to open command prompt in the location.
Click the extract button.
Choose the resolution you want and click apply to switch to it.
Windows does not give any option to change screen resolution using the command prompt.
If you don t make a selection within 15 seconds windows will revert the change.
Download qres from this website.
We can find out desktop resolution of a computer from command prompt using wmic command.
The timer is primarily there to switch back to the previous display settings in case the selection made it impossible to read what was on the display.
3 more tips to get to grips with the screen resolution problem.
Some screens and video cards do not correctly detect screen resolution.
For example if you installed a new display driver for the first time on the computer you had this problem in windows you can have the driver updated automatically which can sometimes lead to the resolution problem of the screen resolution.
Right click the qres zip file and select the extract all button.
It is a global option.
Wmic desktopmonitor get screenheight screenwidth.
However please keep in mind that you need a screen resolution of at least 1024x768 to access the microsoft store and run store apps.
In windows 10 you can change the screen resolution individually for each display connected to your pc.