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Jan 18th, 2008, 5:41 PM
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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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Jan 18th, 2008, 7:34 PM
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Re: Detect number of monitors
Operating system? Programming language? Any details at all?
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Jan 18th, 2008, 8:01 PM
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Re: Detect number of monitors
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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Jan 19th, 2008, 12:27 AM
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Re: Detect number of monitors
vb 2005 xpress
vb Syntax (Toggle Plain Text)
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Jan 19th, 2008, 4:35 AM
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Re: Detect number of monitors
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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Jan 19th, 2008, 3:13 PM
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Re: Detect number of monitors
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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Jan 19th, 2008, 3:47 PM
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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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Jan 19th, 2008, 4:44 PM
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Re: Detect number of monitors
@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. |
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