Command Line control of video or keyboard?

I have a Dell Latitude laptop computer at work. I use a large monitor when it is docked, but when it undocks, I always have to manually go to the Settings/Display window to reset the color density and screen resolution, using the mouse. The help desk cannot get the laptop to reset itself, so I just do the above whenever I undock.

Somewhere I thought I recalled reading that the video resolution/color bits, and maybe even the keyboard characteristics, can be set using Dos commands. If so, I could write a short batch file, which would make resetting the computer almost painless.

But I've been unable to find information on how to do this. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

 

You MIGHT be able to set up different 'themes' each having the screen resolutions you want and put a shortcut to each on your desktop and then just select which theme you want. I just don't know if themes will handle different resolutions. Worth a try.

 

I looked into this. The themes in Windows XP might be able to do this (I haven't tried). but it does not appear that there is similar capability in Windows 2000. All I can see that you can do is change color schemes.

I'm still looking for some command line information that would allow resolution and color depth changes.