Is a way to quickly set screen refresh rate

Question

Is a way to quickly set refresh rate instead of right-click on Desktop

Screen Resolution -> Advanced Settings -> Monitor

and in center Monitor Settings screen refresh rate with dropdown

Or just only to show Advanced Settings with Monitor tab

And is it possible to do it in .bat?

Answer 1

Is there a way to quickly get the refresh rate?

You can do this from a cmd shell or in a batch file using wmic.

Example:

> wmic PATH Win32_videocontroller get currentrefreshrate
CurrentRefreshRate
60

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Is there a way to quickly set the refresh rate?

nircmd from nirsoft can be used to set the refresh rate.

NirCmd Command Reference - setdisplay

setdisplay {monitor:index/name} [width] [height] [color bits] {refresh rate} {-updatereg} {-allusers}

Changes your display settings.

• The [width] and [height] parameters represents the number of pixels on your screen.

• The [color bits] parameter represents the number of colors shown on your screen (8 - 256 color, 16 - 16bit color, 24 - 24bit color, and so on).

• {refresh rate} is an optional parameter that specifies the monitor refresh rate.

• If you specify the {-updatereg} parameter, the new settings will be saved in the Registry.

• If you specify both {-updatereg} and {-allusers} parameters, the new settings will be saved in the Registry for all users.

• If you have multiple monitors, you can use the optional monitor parameter, which specifies for which monitor you want to change the display settings. You can specify the monitor by index (0 for the first monitor, 1 for the second one, and so on) or by specifying a string in the system monitor name. The monitor name can be found in the Device manager of Windows: Right click on the monitor item, and then choose 'Properties'. The string displayed in the 'location' field is the monitor name.

Examples:

setdisplay 800 600 24 -updatereg
setdisplay 1024 768 24 90
setdisplay 1024 768 8
setdisplay monitor:1 1024 768 24 90
setdisplay monitor:name1 1024 768 24 90

Source NirCmd Command Reference - setdisplay

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Disclaimer

I am not affiliated with nirsoft in any way, I am just an end user of their software.

Further Reading

• An A-Z Index of the Windows CMD command line - An excellent reference for all things Windows cmd line related.
• wmic - Windows Management Instrumentation Command.

Answer 2

This is the closest I've been able to do.

I've created a text file.

typed in:

desk.cpl

Then Save as

desk.cpl

Make sure it saves as .cpl and not as .cpl.txt

Double click it, and it shows you Screen resolution settings.

EDIT: Found this a minute ago, you might want to give it a try.

Answer 3

Own answer

For other people

Yes it is possible I did this in .bat:

ChangeScreenResolution.exe /f=75 /d=0

ChangeScreenResolution.exe must be downloaded

It not must be 75 in /f (but different than you have refresh rate) don't forget about /d

Thanks for ChangeScreenResolution.exe

Answer 4

Is there a way to quickly get the refresh rate?

This is possible using vbscript:

On Error Resume Next

strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")

Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
("Select * from Win32_VideoController")

For Each objItem in colItems

  objItem.CurrentHorizontalResolution
  Wscript.Echo "Current: " & objItem.CurrentRefreshRate
  objItem.InstalledDisplayDrivers
  Wscript.Echo "Max: " & objItem.MaxRefreshRate
  Wscript.Echo "Min: " & objItem.MinRefreshRate

Next

Just take that and save it in a file anyname.vbs
Make sure it has the extension vbs
In Notepad, when you save, just use quotes (") save like this "yourfilename.vbs"

Then you can just double click (single click if you have stettings set to that) on the file and you should get popup boxes telling you the current refresh rate, Max and Min the refresh rate can be.

Answer 5

This is very suboptimal but can be somehow useful.

1. Type command (in terminal or by Win+R):

   rundll32.exe display.dll, ShowAdapterSettings 0` 
   

   This opens generic monitor properties dialog, see image. (0 is an index of monitor #1).
2. Refresh rates are in "Monitor" tab
3. (bonus) You can check supported configurations for monitor by pressing "List of modes" button.