What it does do though is make the required changes to the Red Alert 2 settings files (for both Red Alert 2 and the expansion pack Yuri's Revenge) and these will take effect the next time you run the game through their official launcher. It turns out that the resolution fix I mentioned in the question does actually work, but due to the new launchers provided in the Origin release of The First Decade you're unable to launch the game from the resolution fixer.
