How can I turn off display resolution auto-detection in Windows Vista?

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Published on 2012-06-19T17:06:23Z Indexed on 2012/06/27 9:18 UTC
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At work I've 4 different computers connected using a keyboard/video/mouse switch.

Quite often when I switch to windows vista the resolution is totally wrong and I need to get the screen properties dialog, change to another wrong resolution (because the fun part is that the apparently current resolution listed in the dialog is the correct one) then re-switch to the correct resolution.

I would really like to just shut that broken resolution autodetection code off. Is there a way to disable screen resolution autodetection in Windows Vista?

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