Save/Restore display settings in Win 7 Pro

[glricht]

Have a customer running Win 7 Pro on a Dell Latitude E6540 laptop. He does financial work and uses 3 monitors when in his office (the laptop's display and 2 external monitors). He's got the monitors setup with the desired resolution, font size, etc. At his house, he's got the same exact setup, so no changes are needed when going between work and home. But when he travels and works in his hotel room, he uses only the laptop's display.

The problem is that when he comes home after being on the road and starts up at either his home or house, the settings for the external monitors (e.g. resolutions and font sizes) are not what he previously defined and he has to redefine everything back to what he wants. Since he travels quite a bit, this constant redoing of the display settings is getting exasperating.

Does anybody know of a technique or 3rd-party tool that will save/restore display settings? That way he could save a setup for "home", "work", etc and then simply restore them as needed. I've done a bunch of Google searches and other research, but haven't found anything that fits the bill.

(I know that as soon as I post this, the answer will become immediately obvious.)

 

[MichaelBits]

Perhaps...
http://sourceforge.net/projects/monitorswitcher/

 

[tf76]

Small, portable and does not require Microsoft net framework.

http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/DesktopOK

Regards,

 

[glricht]

Thanks guys, I'm going to check them out!

 

[Moltuae]

For general desktop icon organisation, to group icons and prevent them moving around, Stardock's Fences is great:
http://www.stardock.com/products/fences/

 

[glricht]

For general desktop icon organisation, to group icons and prevent them moving around, Stardock's Fences is great:
http://www.stardock.com/products/fences/

Agree that Fences is great program, I use it myself. But in this case, it's not icon movement that's the issue, it's the monitors resolution, font size, left/right location (etc), that needs saving/restoring, something which Fences, unfortunately, doesn't address.

 

[dannyict]

maybe this can help
https://www.displayfusion.com/Features/MonitorConfig/

 

[glricht]

maybe this can help
https://www.displayfusion.com/Features/MonitorConfig/

Thanks Danny, I'll give it a try.

 

[mikeroq]

Thanks Danny, I'll give it a try.

I use DisplayFusion. When I switch from my monitors to a tv and back everything is where I left it.

Plus it is real nice having a taskbar on each monitor, one click to move windows between screens. I don't know how people use multiple monitors without a taskbar on each one!