I need to switch resolutions quickly a lot and just found a great piece of freeware called displayswitch. You create a two line file with extension ".dsdf" and when you click on it your res changes right away without having the extra few steps like with powerstrip or the display control panel. It's at: www.cdsoft.co.uk/
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