Wyse Device Manager(WDM) – Push Screen Resolution Setting – XPe/WES

Requirements

1. windows screen resolution changing program that does it via command line arguments
   • Multires.exe from http://entechtaiwan.com
2. pskill.exe
3. My VBscript code to make the logic handling easy
4. Finally wrapping everything with a Wyse rapport script

VBScript Code


'==========================================================================
' NAME: ChangeScreenRes.vbs
'
' AUTHOR: Smulpuru ,
' DATE : 7/5/2012
'
' COMMENT:
'
'==========================================================================
Dim objFSO, objFile, strFilename, blnExists, Command1, Command2, width, heigth, WshShell, strRegvalue, strValue
strFilename = "C:\Windows\System32\multires.exe"
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set args = WScript.Arguments
width = args.Item(0)
heigth = args.Item(1)
Command1 = strFilename + " /" + width + "," + heigth
Command2 = "c:\windows\system32\pskill.exe -t multires.exe"
strRegvalue = "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Sysinternals\PsKill\EulaAccepted"
strValue = 1
WshShell.RegWrite strRegvalue, strValue,"REG_DWORD"
'blnExists will be True or False
blnExists = objFSO.FileExists(strFilename)
If blnExists Then
WshShell.Run Command1
WScript.Sleep 5000
WshShell.Run Command2
Else
'
End If
Set WshShell = Nothing
Set objFSO = Nothing


Copy Files to WDM File Repository

pskill.exe; multires.exe and ChangeScreenRes.vbs to ftp://[WDM-Server]/Rapport/Video

Rapport Script

[Version]
Number=ChangeScreenRes1920x1200
Description=ChangeScreenRes1920x1200
OS=XP
Category=Device Configuration
USE_REMOTE=Yes
; Date: 5/10/2012
[Script]
SF "Video\multires.exe" "c:\windows\system32\multires.exe"
DF "c:\ssmc\ChangeScreenRes.vbs"
SF "Video\ChangeScreenRes.vbs" "c:\ssmc\ChangeScreenRes.vbs"
SF "Video\pskill.exe" "c:\windows\system32\pskill.exe"
EX "c:\windows\system32\cscript.exe c:\ssmc\ChangeScreenRes.vbs 1920 1200" "+10"


Download Rapport Pkg and VBScript

WDM-ScreenResChangePkg.zip

Notes

For WES change the OS value to WES(7) in the rapport Script.
For different resolution settings change the arguments that are passed to ChangeScreenRes.vbs in the rapport script.