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When the world turns upside down
Well maybe not the whole world, just Windows. Every so often we hear from people for whom Windows is the wrong way up, or on its side. After the initial amusing confusion over what 'Windows has fallen over' really means, the solution is fairly simple.
It is a clever feature built into some graphics card drivers to account for monitors that can be rotated into portrait mode rather than the normal landscape. It's great for editing long documents but only if Windows rotates as well to match.
The keyboard shortcuts for the four different modes* are
- Ctrl + Alt + Up Arrow: Normal
- Ctrl + Alt + Right: Rotated 90 degrees to the
- Ctrl + Alt + Left: Rotated 90 degrees to the
- Ctrl + Alt + Down: Upside down
*That includes upside down, though the possible rationale behind this other than 'because we can' escapes me.
Too late for me :P I had someone ring me up in a panic 1 week ago when their daughters laptop had 'turned upside down!' - Have to admit, I had to 'google' for the answer :))
posted-by gareth price | October 4, 2008 9:25 AM
Thats funny, I had never heard of this before.
posted-by Rundll Error | February 14, 2009 3:28 AM