I know this question has been asked before, but I have yet to find a solid solution. The last activity I saw on this was in October of 2010, so I thought I would begin anew rather than resurre...
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I know this question has been asked before, but I have yet to find a solid solution. The last activity I saw on this was in October of 2010, so I thought I would begin anew rather than resurrecting an old thread. Please see the problem description below. We have a number of XP VMs configured in a dynamic pool for our users. The pool settings are set to allow a maximum of 4 monitors, with a max resolution of 1920 x 1200 on each monitor. Users report that when they log in and attempt to change the resolution, the Settings tab in the display properties page is gone. Through researching this, I have stumbled across VM KB article 1020809, updated less than a month ago, that details a fix for this issue (changing the NoDispSettingsPage registry value to 0). I have done this on my master template, however when the users log in it is set back to 1. There was also a thread in this forum that suggested changing the Multi-Monitor option in the Pool Settings back to 1, letting vCenter update, then changing it back, and then doing a shutdown and startup on all the machines. I tried this as well, but it did not resolve this issue. Lastly, I tried to DISABLE the Hide Settings Page option in Group Policy, but the setting stays at 1. I can change the screen resolution through a script (it doesn't persist through a logoff/logon, which is another matter), but cannot get the Settings tab to show up. I see there is an adm template for Vista or Windows 7, but am I correct that there is nothing more that can be done for XP? I cannot figure out why this keeps getting set back to 1, and am hoping that my users are not going to all be stuck at a resolution of 1920 x 1200. As a secondary note, if I change it programmatically, what key(s) do I need to capture to have it persist through a logoff (we are using a third party profile management tool call ProfileUnity)? Any thoughts would be much appreciated.