Change resolution without being able to see desktop

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I am traveling. I use Splashtop to connect to my home PC. I changed the resolution and now my screen looks like an old NES game with a dusty cartridge or a scrambled cable channel. I can run commands. I can also log out and see the login screen properly. As soon as I log in it goes back to the scrambled image.

I'm running Windows 10. Is there anything I can do to change my resolution without being able to see? command line? I could reboot into safe mode but I'm afraid my splashtop streamer would not launch.

Ideas?

Devil's Advocate

Posted 2015-09-01T14:17:10.027

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Possible [so] duplicate: Batch command to change the resolution of a computer and How to change screen resolution and the size of items using command line/programmaticly/batch or macro?

– DavidPostill – 2015-09-01T14:22:24.060

That question has much more specific requirements and my question has a much more specific scenario. I don't believe they are duplicates. – Devil's Advocate – 2015-09-01T14:37:12.307

Can you use powershell? Set-DisplayResolution -Width 1024 -Height 768 -Force (Set-DisplayResolution)

– DavidPostill – 2015-09-01T14:45:03.683

According to an SO question that is only available in Server Core (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28817636/why-is-my-set-displayresolution-command-in-powershell-missing)

– Devil's Advocate – 2015-09-01T14:54:30.860

1Looks like you are out of luck then :/ – DavidPostill – 2015-09-01T15:08:16.840

Answers

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While this doesn't technically answer my question, I did find a solution for anyone that has this issue and uses splashtop.

In splashtop, I edited the connection to the PC in question and I changed the resolution to 800x600. When I connected it forced that resolution and everything looked fine (relatively speaking). I was then able to change it back to "best fit on local device" and it still looked good.

I won't accept this as I would still like to find a way to do this blind regardless of what remote software you are using.

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