Hello everyone this is Eddie the Magic Monk. Welcome to another technology
troubleshooting tutorial today we're going to talk about how to change your
desktop resolution very quickly now the first thing that I want to show you
is the slow way because if you were doing it this way and you think that
it's quick then it is actually the slowest way possible so the slower way
is the right-click on your desktop and you go to screen resolution and then you
choose what monitor you want to change the resolution for and then you go down
to resolution and then you go to the resolution that you want by finding it
on the scale and then you click OK and then you wait for a little while and
finally you you click on keep changes and the resolution is changed now that
is actually the slowest way possible I will show you now the quick way that I
use so basically I go to the bottom right hand corner and right click on my
catalyst control center icon and then I click on invoke preset and then I just
choose the desktop I want and then it is changed okay so this is a lot
quicker than right-clicking on your desktop so how do you set this up well
all you have to do is firstly open up your catalyst control center so I have
Windows 8 right now so I'm gonna try and find it so I'm gonna go
catalyst control center or you can just search for catalyst so once you open up
the AMD catalyst control center what you're gonna do is you're gonna go to
presets and you're going to delete all the presets that you already have okay
because it'll just confuse you if you already have some presets so click on
manage presets and I'm gonna delete everything that I have here so yes
delete delete and then close it okay so now that I don't have any presets
you're gonna go to desktop management
desktop properties and then you're gonna change to the desktop area that you want
so let's say I want to change it to 1920 to 1080 you know gonna you're going to
change your color quality your refresh rate all that to whatever you want
you're gonna click on apply
and then you're gonna click on yes and then you're going to click on add preset
and I'm going to type in whatever desktop resolution that I've just
changed to so 1920 desktop and then I'm gonna click Save so you have just
created your first preset and whenever you click on this preset it'll go to the
1920 desktop now I'm gonna create another preset for the 1280 desktop
which is this one 1280 by 720 so I'm gonna click on apply and then I'm gonna
click on yes and then what I'm going to do is add another preset for 1280
desktop and click Save okay now you can simply get out of the AMD Catalyst
control center and then what you can do to change your desktop resolution is you
can simply right click on the icon on the bottom right hand side click invoke
preset and click whichever resolution that you want your desktop to be so I'm
going to click on 1920 desktop and you can see that has changed to 1920 or if I
want to go back to 1280 I click on this again and it will go back to 1280 okay
now the next thing you want to do is make sure that this icon stays on the
bottom right hand corner so there are two things that you need to check
number one you need to click on this down up arrow here saying show hidden
icons and you need to click on customize ok
then what you need to do is go to where it says catalyst control center host
application and you need to click on show icon and notifications ok and
that's gonna make sure that it stays on the bottom right hand corner the next
thing you want to do is make sure that you have the icon enabled in catalyst
control center so if you don't see the icon here at all even underneath the
upward arrow what you need to do is go to the AMD catalyst control center click
on preferences and make sure you click on enable system tray menu so if you
don't have that clicked it's possible that you won't be able to see this icon
okay I hope this has helped you guys today see you next time.