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Does anyone know of any way to change a PC's resolution remotely and without requiring someone to be logged on?

I have tried qres.exe / 1365vidchng.exe / resswitch.exe to do this, all of which do not seem to work.

I can get them all to work when logged on, however I need to push this out to a large # of PCs, and would rather not have to do that.

Is there a way to run these and get them to work without any user being logged into the XP machine? Or is there another way to do this? Rebooting is OK.

Thanks.

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Why not do it in a logon script? I'd imagine that you have AD running if it is a large number of computers. – MDMarra Sep 29 '10 at 4:22
I need it changed before users log onto the PC as post imaging software installs require a specific resolution. – Zero0ne Sep 29 '10 at 4:46
PC gets imaged; runs through sysprep; a reboot or two; software installs start. Can't install the Cisco VPN client without a min. of 800x600 resolution. I tried updating the sysprep.inf file by adding the [Display] entries for 1024x768, but that didn't take as it was 640x480 still. – Zero0ne Sep 29 '10 at 4:53
I would check into why it's not taking the settings you specified in sysprep. That's always worked for me in the past. – nhinkle♦ Sep 29 '10 at 7:42
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