I have a Dell desktop, using a Vista 64-bit platform. I accidentally hit
the keyboard with my hand, which caused the desktop to rotate 90 degrees
ccw. How do I go about rotating the screen back to normal?
Gordon Biggar
Houston, Texas
I have a Dell desktop, using a Vista 64-bit platform. I accidentally hit
the keyboard with my hand, which caused the desktop to rotate 90 degrees
ccw. How do I go about rotating the screen back to normal?
Gordon Biggar
Houston, Texas
Look in your system tray for a screen properties icon, probably either
ATI or nView. That will include the screen rotation option.
Your Dell manual may tell you what the relevant keyboard shortcuts are.
Try
Ctrl-Alt-Up Arrow
How to feel dumb in one easy lesson ---
It dawned on me to right-click on the desktop and go to Graphics
Options\Rotation. But, thanks for your very prompt response, regardless!
The ability to rotate the screen image is a feature of your video
card, to help it work with monitors that rotate to portrait
orientation. Almost certainly you accidentally pressed Ctrl-Alt, and
some arrow key.
Rotate it back using those keys.
You can rotate desktop also thru VideDriver, e.g. here we use nVidia and
there's an option for normal or roatated desktop for monitors which can
rotate to show letters, etc documents vertically, because such documents are
indeed best viewed veritically unlike normal computer display.
Perhaps you accidentally enabled rotation in those options, check....
Is the keyboard a model SK-8115? I have all kinds of trouble when I even
sightly graze mine. It will do interesting things like wipe out an email
I'm working on, usually unsalvageable with the edit key.
Allen
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