Strange screen rotate problem

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Sorry for posting to so many NGs. This is just so strange that I don't know
what to do and am looking for any help I can get.



A client has reported a strange problem. According to her, she leaned on her
Dell win xp desktop keyboard by mistake and some keys were pressed which
caused the screen image to rotate 90 degrees. She does not know which keys
were pressed. To compensate for rotated image, she has rotated her monitor
90 degrees in the other direction and is working like this at the moment.
Does anyone know what may have caused this and what is the solution?



Thanks



Regards
 
A client has reported a strange problem. According to her, she leaned on
her Dell win xp desktop keyboard by mistake and some keys were pressed
which caused the screen image to rotate 90 degrees. She does not know
which keys were pressed. To compensate for rotated image, she has rotated
her monitor 90 degrees in the other direction and is working like this at
the moment. Does anyone know what may have caused this and what is the
solution?
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Depends on the video card and graphic drivers. With NVidia drivers, you can
go to the display properties and fix it:

right-click desktop, select Properties
go to Settings tab and click Advanced
on the GeForce tab, select the NVRotate node
select Landscape and click OK twice

She probably has a hotkey assigned to this function.

Jon.
 
hello John you wrote
Hi



Sorry for posting to so many NGs. This is just so strange that I
don't know what to do and am looking for any help I can get.



A client has reported a strange problem. According to her, she leaned
on her Dell win xp desktop keyboard by mistake and some keys were
pressed which caused the screen image to rotate 90 degrees. She does
not know which keys were pressed. To compensate for rotated image,
she has rotated her monitor 90 degrees in the other direction and is
working like this at the moment. Does anyone know what may have
caused this and what is the solution?



Thanks



Regards
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"Alt Gr" + Arrow up or down.
 
Some graphics cards come with utilities or an option to rotate your display.
Most likely to be found in the Display/Advanced option.

Click on Start/Control Panel/Display/Setting Tab, Advanced button or it
could be an
Icon in the control panel specifically for the Video Card you have.

The following may also work: CTRL+ALT+Up arrow on some but not all video
cards.

JS
 
In the system tray on the right hand side is a monitor control panel
icon. She hit a hot key.
 
Hi



Sorry for posting to so many NGs. This is just so strange that I don't know
what to do and am looking for any help I can get.



A client has reported a strange problem. According to her, she leaned on her
Dell win xp desktop keyboard by mistake and some keys were pressed which
caused the screen image to rotate 90 degrees.
Click to expand...


It's actually a common problem.

It's a feature of her video card, to support using a monitor that
works in portrait orientation. Try Ctrl-Alt-Up Arrow (or sometimes
Ctrl-Shift-R).
 
The graphics card's mfg's interface, accessable via control panel or
screen properties, should contain information about hotkey assignments
and how to change them.

Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]
 
My computer has a same problem!i accidentally pressed the key either z,shift,alt,menu,caps lock or ctrl

please reply thanks





John wrote:

Strange screen rotate problem
29-Jun-07

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Sorry for posting to so many NGs. This is just so strange that I don't know
what to do and am looking for any help I can get


A client has reported a strange problem. According to her, she leaned on her
Dell win xp desktop keyboard by mistake and some keys were pressed which
caused the screen image to rotate 90 degrees. She does not know which keys
were pressed. To compensate for rotated image, she has rotated her monitor
90 degrees in the other direction and is working like this at the moment.
Does anyone know what may have caused this and what is the solution


Thank


Regards

EggHeadCafe - Software Developer Portal of Choice
FLASH: Fix for Windows Vista
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorial...a8-3712c676eb02/flash-fix-for-windows-vi.aspx
 
wrote:
My computer has a same problem!i accidentally pressed the key either
z,shift,alt,menu,caps lock or ctrl
Click to expand...
John wrote:
Click to expand...
A client has reported a strange problem. According to her, she leaned on
her Dell win xp desktop keyboard by mistake and some keys were pressed
which caused the screen image to rotate 90 degrees. She does not know
which keys were pressed. To compensate for rotated image, she has rotated
her monitor 90 degrees in the other direction and is working like this at
the moment. Does anyone know what may have caused this and what is the
solution?
Click to expand...

Ctrl-Alt-Up arrow or look in Control Panel to see if you have a separate
applet for your video card (Nvidia or ATI Catalyst Control Panel). If the
latter, it will have settings for screen rotation.

BTW, very few helpers will respond to posts originating from Egghead Cafe.
Here's why:

You are not posting on a real forum as you think you are and you didn't
quote any of the thread to which you are replying. You are using a web
interface that leeches Usenet posts and most of the rest of us are using
real newsreaders. We don't see what you do. If you want to participate in
Usenet, the better way is to set up a newsreader. This is very easy to do
and I'll give you information about that below. If you prefer to use a
forum, then here are two excellent ones:

http://forum.aumha.org/index.php
http://http://computerhaven.info/

Since you are using a web interface, you may not realize that this is really
a newsgroup. You will get far more out of this resource if you learn to use
a newsreader. There are many good newsreaders for Windows, but you can use
Outlook Express (XP) or Windows Mail (Vista) since you already have it. Here
are some links to information about newsgroups:

About Usenet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ - Usenet FAQs from the Internet FAQ Archives
http://www.usenetmonster.com/infocenter/
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Usenet - a brief explanation
of newsgroups

Outlook Express/Windows Mail as Newsreader:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm
http://rickrogers.org/setupoe.htm
http://vistasupport.mvps.org/accessing_newsgrousp_with-windows_mail.htm

How to Post:
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Usenet
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375 - How to Ask a Question
http://users.tpg.com.au/bzyhjr/liszt.htm - How Not to Get Technical Help on
Usenet


http://aumha.org/nntp.htm - list of MS newsgroups
microsoft.public.test.here - MS group to test if your newsreader is working
properly
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/munad.htm - how to munge email address
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting - crossposting
http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm - multiposting

Other Newsreaders for Windows:
http://www.forteinc.com/main/homepage.php - Forte
http://www.mozilla.org - Thunderbird

Malke
 
My computer has a same problem!i accidentally pressed the key either
z,shift,alt,menu,caps lock or ctrl

please reply thanks





John wrote:

Strange screen rotate problem
29-Jun-07

Hi



Sorry for posting to so many NGs. This is just so strange that I don't
know
what to do and am looking for any help I can get.



A client has reported a strange problem. According to her, she leaned on
her
Dell win xp desktop keyboard by mistake and some keys were pressed which
caused the screen image to rotate 90 degrees. She does not know which keys
were pressed. To compensate for rotated image, she has rotated her monitor
90 degrees in the other direction and is working like this at the moment.
Does anyone know what may have caused this and what is the solution?



Thanks



Regards

EggHeadCafe - Software Developer Portal of Choice
FLASH: Fix for Windows Vista
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorial...a8-3712c676eb02/flash-fix-for-windows-vi.aspx
Click to expand...


Read the documentation that came with your computer it will tell you how to
rotate and reset the rotation of a screen.

Different video drivers do it with different key-press combinations. Most
commonly it is Ctrl + Alt + up arrow to reset.

nVidia has controls in their video driver program.
 
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