Comments on: How can I rotate my display back to normal?

Question: How can I rotate my display back to normal?

Faint of Butt — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:09:25 -0800

Office emergency! Help me get this monitor out of portrait mode and back into its usual landscape display!

My boss's secretary put a heavy folder full of papers down on her keyboard without looking. Apparently, she hit some mysterious key combination that rotated the entire display 90 degrees clockwise. We can't figure out how to get it back to normal! Windows XP, Panasonic monitor. Further details gladly available upon request.

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:12:48 -0800

Evidently the mysterious key combination was "Control-Alt-Right Arrow." The problem has been fixed. Sorry to bother anybody.

By: seawallrunner

seawallrunner — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:19:08 -0800

(how many of us tried this combination of keys just now?)

By: yeoz

yeoz — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:29:29 -0800

I did. Works on my Dell at work.

By: raedyn

raedyn — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:54:19 -0800

I tried. I bet everyone did. It didn't work on this XP Pro Dell.

By: danb

danb — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 18:14:46 -0800

Faint of Butt, you should mark yourself as best answer for future reference.

By: Savannah

Savannah — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 19:00:48 -0800

I did. It didn't work on XP Pro Generic Computer.

Heh.

By: Four Flavors

Four Flavors — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 09:55:24 -0800

It depends on your video carddisplay driver. I have the same monitor (dell 2100FP) as a friend, and he can rotate his both graphically and physically, whereas I can only rotate mine physically (resulting in sideways text).

By: itchie

itchie — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 08:34:14 -0800

Hah. I just tried. Didn't work. (XP Home SP2)