Get Screen resolution using WMI/powershell in Windows 7

Question

I am using the following script to get screen resolution in Windows using WMI. The script works fine when the computer is in landscape mode but returns incorrect values when

Answer 1

You can grab this from the Win32_VideoController WMI class. The VideoModeDescription property includes the screen resolution and the color depth.

(Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_VideoController).VideoModeDescription;

Result

1600 x 900 x 4294967296 colors