Do you have a computer shared by multiple users who want their own screen resolutions? I do.
Setting:
The front desk near the church building’s entrance.
Characters: (Names have been changed to protect me)
- Lonnie: The regular receptionist. She uses the desk about 40 hours per week.
- James: One of the security hosts. Works on web design, php, java, etc. while using the desk.
- Extras: About a dozen other people using the computer
- Bob: Me (I changed it by reversing the order of the letters in my first name).
Lonnie likes the 17in LCD to be set at a resolution of 800×600.
James prefers it at something more like 1024×768 or 1280×960.
Most of the extras will use whatever happens to be there at the time, but several do change it.
Lonnie is getting tired of having the resolution changed when other people visit the computer so Bob (that’s me with my name disguised) sought out a solution.
Windows XP does not let you have a different screen resolution for each user so I had to find a program that would do it for us. That is when I found MultiRes.
Multires lets me set a different resolution for each user, and when you run MultiRes it does it right away. I placed a shortcut to it in Lonnie’s Startup folder and next time I logged into her account the screen suddenly changed its size during the loadup process.
While you can create shortcuts that give each user their own settings I saved everything in the primary multires.ini file
lonnie=800,600,32
james=1024,768,32
bob=1280,960,32
castofthousands=640,480,32
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