ResChanger

[mritter]

Is anyone having a problem getting ResChanger to work when doing a RunOnceEx full install? It works fine for me from the desktop, but from RunOnceEx it runs but says it can't change the resolution.

[almulder]

Have not tested that. I will try later when I get time and let you know.

Guess I had am min. quicker than I thought. LOL

At what point is it to change screen resolution?

What WPI starts?

When Installer starts?

After Installer Ends?

Screen Never Changed at any point.

Edited June 5, 2006 by almulder

[mritter]

You have to pick a resolution different than your default, of course. Like my default is 1280x1024. I try to ResChange it down to 800x600 when WPI starts. It is one of the first things it tries to do.

[almulder]

Tryed but no luck.

[mritter]

Did you get any error messages or anything? Did it seem to run even?

[almulder]

No errors - no signs of it trying to run.

[Dumpy Dooby]

Not sure if this will fix it, but I know with .NET Framework 2.0 one needed to change the registry entry that said Windows Setup was in progress. Here's the batch file I wrote for that.

@echo off 
SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS 
FOR /F "tokens=2* delims=	" %%A IN ('reg query "HKLM\SYSTEM\Setup" /v SystemSetupInProgress') DO SET SSIP=%%B 
IF /I '%SSIP%'=='0x0' SET SSIP=0 
IF /I '%SSIP%'=='0x1' ( 
   SET SSIP=1 
) ELSE ( 
   SET SSIP=1 
) 
IF /I '%SSIP%'=='1' ( 
   reg delete HKLM\Software\Microsoft\PCHealth\ErrorReporting\DW /f 
   reg add HKLM\SYSTEM\Setup /v SystemSetupInProgress /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f 
) 
ResChanger parametershere
reg add HKLM\SYSTEM\Setup /v SystemSetupInProgress /t REG_DWORD /d %SSIP% /f

I guess you can give that a shot. *shrug*

note the line that says ResChanger parametershere. Change that accordingly.

edit:

btw, I'm thinking this might work because there may be a limitation on Windows to not change the resolution when setup is in progress.

Edited June 8, 2006 by Dumpy Dooby

[Kelsenellenelvian]

Actually dumpy dooby reschanger did work when it was being used from a cmd file. It just doesn't want to run for runonceex.

[Dumpy Dooby]

Have you tried cmd /c (from RunOnceEx, that is)?

Edited June 8, 2006 by Dumpy Dooby

[mritter]

What I don't understand is why it works fine from desktop but not RunOnceEx. Something is preventing a res change: either WPI itself because the window is opened before it calls ResChanger, so maybe mshta is to blame. But then why would it work from the desktop? Is it a Window's thing that won't allow it at this stage of installation? ResChanger does run, it just reports an error every time. Still working on it............

[kof94]

Was this ever resolved?

Although I don't get an error the resolution never changes from 800x600 (Windows Default).

I want to scale up to 1024x768. My panel will go way beyond this but since it's only a 17", 1024x768 is my regular setting (for Windows anyway).

On some occasions I've managed to get it to work but rarely.

Any ideas?

-kof94