XP Professional Display Resolutions for User Groups.

[Hard Ball]

Is there any way to set up different Display Settings for different user groups, specifically between the GUIs of the Administrators and the Users?? I have been looking everywhere in XP Professional, including looking in gpedit.msc to see if separate settings exist.

Would any of the gurus in this forum let me know a way of setting this up?

Thanks in advance.

 

[pcgeek11]

Originally posted by: Hard Ball
Is there any way to set up different Display Settings for different user groups, specifically between the GUIs of the Administrators and the Users?? I have been looking everywhere in XP Professional, including looking in gpedit.msc to see if separate settings exist.

Would any of the gurus in this forum let me know a way of setting this up?

Thanks in advance.

Nope, The display setting are system wide and not set for each user or group. I haven't heard of any third part applications that will do it for you but that doesn't mean that one doesn't exist.

pcgeek11

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: pcgeek11

Originally posted by: Hard Ball
Is there any way to set up different Display Settings for different user groups, specifically between the GUIs of the Administrators and the Users?? I have been looking everywhere in XP Professional, including looking in gpedit.msc to see if separate settings exist.

Would any of the gurus in this forum let me know a way of setting this up?

Thanks in advance.

Nope, The display setting are system wide and not set for each user or group. I haven't heard of any third part applications that will do it for you but that doesn't mean that one doesn't exist.

pcgeek11

Ultramon will do this.

 

[Hard Ball]

Thanks guys,

and bsobel, have you personally used Ultramon; do you have a good experience with it; would it cause any problems for the OS that non-admin users would notice?

 

[bsobel]

and bsobel, have you personally used Ultramon; do you have a good experience with it; would it cause any problems for the OS that non-admin users would notice?

It's mainly for multi-monitor support (give nice features like an extra taskbar, control of where apps launch, etc). I use it on all of my machines. The feature you want will work even if the machines aren't multi-mon. I would recommend NOT installing the mirror driver (a device driver which lets you put a display onto multiple monitors at the same time, e.g. for classroom use) since you don't need it and it's the one non-user mode portion of the program.