Detect number of monitors
 

I was wondering if anyone has an idea on how to detect the number of monitors that are attached to a remote system.

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Operating system? Programming language? Any details at all?

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I'm sorry. It's windows XP and the programming language will be vb.net/vbscript unless there is an easier way in another language.

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vb 2005 xpress

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Is there a way to do that to a remote computer. I'd have administrative rights on the remote and local computer.

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PsExec from Microsoft (prev. Sysinternals) is great for that sort of thing. It will copy over your script/program to the remote machine, run it, and redirect the standard input/output streams back to you. It's a terrible hack to get some of the functionality so common on just about every other OS.

This may be easier with WMI. I'm looking in to that right now.

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Just as I thought. I wouldn't trust anyone using that program on my computer without my knowledge. PsExec = Evil :scared:

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If 'they' without your knowledge have access to the admin$ share and can remotely start services, you're already in trouble. PsExec is just convenience. Domain admins and such should have those privileges.

Anyway, WMI may do the trick for you.

Take a look at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../bb742610.aspx

wmic /user:"MACHINE\User" /node:MACHINE desktopmonitor where availability!=8 get description, screenwidth, screenheight

I used that on my home network to get info about the monitors seemingly plugged in (availability not offline) on a remote machine. The user switch would be unnecessary in a domain environment. It looks like you should be able to specify multiple machines and specify a choose a convenient output format such as HTML or CSV. Should do the trick.

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@dameon: Is there any way to just return the count of how many?
@Ancient Dragon: If you are a user in a network with a computer. There are far more ways than just pxexec for Admins to run on your computer and chances are if they are running it on your computer it's for a specific reason and not someone trying to screw it up.