>Thanks for input. I have taken your advice. I check the resolution at startup. If the resolution is less than 1024 I run a modal form that allows them to call the display applet. It works very well. However, as I suspected they soon tired of that and now want to do everything automatically.
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>The company knows that the app must run in 1024 res. Some of the users prefer 800. The users must use the app to conduct business so the philosophical questions all become moot. I have suggested that they buy 17" or 19" monitors but that is probably in the distant future.
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>As I mentioned earlier, I don't have any experice making API calls. Is there a code snippet I could use to automatically change the resolution?
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I don't have code at hand, but pointed you where to look for it. You might consider using login profiles to associate a distinctive hardware configuration with a user login, so that the video mode is set when the user logs in, and by doing so expresses how he wants the world to act.