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Can I make Windows 7 and the Nvidia Control Panel "forget" external display resolutions?

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Mar 15, 202614090 views
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I'm currently having a problem with my system where the full 2560x1440 resolution of my Dell U2711 monitor isn't well supported by my ASUS G73S laptop (it has an NVIDIA GeForce GTX440M CUDA with 1.5GB RAM). The laptop doesn't have DVI-D or DisplayPort outputs and the monitor doesn't officially supp…

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Fix for: Can I make Windows 7 and the Nvidia Control Panel "forget" external display resolutions?

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I found a way. I went to the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers and deleted subkeys that had DELA in them. These are apparently the keys windows uses to decide what display settings to use when the displ…

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