8.1: Locking Down Resolution?

[PliotronX]

Having had zero interest in 4K screens all this time, I have been for the first time working on a COOs laptop with a near-4K monitor and so have never before dealt with the woes of scaling. The story is that various elements either within Windows or more importantly third party applications are very inconsistent making it unusable. I was on the phone for two hours with Dell ProSupport in the hopes that they knew something and they determined that it was a fault of the third party software. I found the manifest file fix and it works great but the fear is that the user will eventually install something or see a certain toolbar that causes problems. The only solution for now is to run the monitor at 1080p with 125% scaling which looks just right and is the default of other high end laptops within the organization (Thinkpad T450s etc.).

The fear with running at 1080p is that the user will be docking with external monitors and if there is a hangup -- almost as sure as rain -- it is going to revert to native resolution and he may not be able to read the screen to even get a remote control session going for us (he works a state away). There is also the possibility that if the graphics driver auto updates, it may also revert to native resolution. There is no fix that we are confident with so I was wondering if anybody knew anything about maybe changing the "recommended" resolution so that 1080p is the default or maybe neutering the monitor to only support 1080p. TIA