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    <p>I am trying to grab the friendly name for the monitors on my system. I am using C#.</p> <p>I have tried <code>Screen</code>, which just gives me <code>//./DisplayXX</code>. I have also tried both <code>Win32_DesktopMonitor</code> and <code>EnumDisplayDevices</code>, they all give me variations of <code>//./DisplayXX</code> OR <code>Generic Monitor</code>, whereas I know my displays names are <code>SyncMaster</code> and <code>SM2333T</code>.</p> <p>Now Windows knows what these monitors are, displays them in the <strong>Devices and Printers</strong> windows with the correct names, and also in the dialog for setting location and resolution.</p> <p>Where can I grab these names from? I have looked in the registry and cant seem to find them, so any help will be great.</p> <p><strong>SOLUTION:</strong> The issue I had was when calling <code>EnumDisplayDevices</code> the second time I was setting <code>iDevNum</code> to id again, which meant I was trying to grab data from the wrong place, I then replaced this with 0, and it works perfectly, see below for the code.</p> <pre><code> var device = new DISPLAY_DEVICE(); device.cb = Marshal.SizeOf(device); try { for (uint id = 0; EnumDisplayDevices(null, id, ref device, 0); id++) { Console.WriteLine(String.Format("{0}, {1}, {2}, {3}, {4}, {5}", id, device.DeviceName, device.DeviceString, device.StateFlags, device.DeviceID, device.DeviceKey)); Console.WriteLine(); device.cb = Marshal.SizeOf(device); EnumDisplayDevices(device.DeviceName, 0, ref device, 0); Console.WriteLine(String.Format("{0}, {1}, {2}, {3}, {4}, {5}", id, device.DeviceName, device.DeviceString, device.StateFlags, device.DeviceID, device.DeviceKey)); device.cb = Marshal.SizeOf(device); device.cb = Marshal.SizeOf(device); return; } } } catch (Exception ex) { Console.WriteLine(String.Format("{0}", ex.ToString())); } </code></pre>
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