[Bug] Wrong resolution value in 'Display'

[AkariiinMKII]

Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_VideoController used in main branch will miss monitors info when using fewer graphics cards than monitors.

Meanwhile, the command in another branch fixed this but uses display resolution instead of native resolution. For example, when using 200% scale on a 4K monitor, you will get 1920 x 1080 in Display area.

[FinnTheHero]

Function Get-Displays {
    $displays = @()

    $monitors = Get-CimInstance -Namespace "root\wmi" -Class WmiMonitorListedSupportedSourceModes

    foreach ($monitor in $monitors) {
        $sortedResolutions = $monitor.MonitorSourceModes | Sort-Object -Property { $_.HorizontalActivePixels * $_.VerticalActivePixels }
        $maxResolution = "{0} x {1}" -f $sortedResolutions[-1].HorizontalActivePixels, $sortedResolutions[-1].VerticalActivePixels
        $displays += $maxResolution
    }
    return $displays
}

I used this in my version of this project and it returns both of my monitors native resolutions as you can see on screenshot

this was maximum scaling percentage I could set

Chaning display resolution will not affect it either

[AkariiinMKII]

@FinnTheHero
It works! But only on Windows 10... Seems it needs admin privilege on Windows 11
And Network Drives are not detected when running as admin
I put it in another branch if you need

[FinnTheHero]

Looked at the way you are getting drive type and I'm using exact same way.
although, I didn't get any errors when I had the chance to test it out on windows 11, I did test it out on single monitor only so I got no idea why that is happening

Edit:
Did a research and I don't think its possible to retrieve monitors native resolutions without using administrator privileges

You could use my version for windows 10 and your code from another branch for windows 11 so that code works without admin privileges

for the second part where you cant see network drives when in admin that is because of following

you can find this here
solutions are explained here

also, could you try my version here ? I don't have access to windows 11 as of now and cant really see if I made any mistakes, Thanks in advance!

[AkariiinMKII]

@FinnTheHero
I re-installed Windows 11 on my machine and everything turn out to be ok! I think we have solved this!

[AkariiinMKII]

@FinnTheHero
And finally the cause of permission error I found...LOL

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