Screen rotated 90 degrees

[brennenpkt]

I have dell optiplexes running windows 2000 and somehow one of my users managed to rotate the display 90 degrees. It is the oddest thing. A buddy of mine told me that he had this happen to him once before and that hitting ctrl+atl+<an arrow> would rotate it. Unfortunatly this did not work. Has anyone ever experienced this before?

 

[bcastner]

Try &quot;Alt Gr&quot; + the arrow keys.
See if there is a notification tray icon for your display adapter, it often can be rotated there.

 

[noobtechie]

On the desktop, right click and you might have an option to select rotate, if so, keep rotating until you get the desired selection. If the rotate option is not there when you right click on your desktop, then, right click\properties\settings\advance\adapter\ and within there you should have the properties option for your video card.

Basically you want to go to the propeties of your video card and choose the option to rotate it back to the normal window.

Hope this helps

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[BionicJohn]

Hi, brennenpkt,

> > rotate the display 90 degrees

I have seen this once - it was a monitor setting, contolled by the monitor's own menu, like brightness and contrast, and wholly independent of the PC.

Iechyd da! John
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[brennenpkt]

I checked the properties and could not find anything. So I Uninstalled the drivers then reinstalled and it is working fine now.

Bcastner What did you mean by &quot;Try &quot;Alt Gr&quot; + the arrow keys&quot; What is 'Gr'?

It is an intel 82865g graphics card.

 

[brennenpkt]

By the way... Thanks for your help

 

[bcastner]

You may not have the key on the keyboard. It stands for Alternate Graphics and allows an easier entry of extended characters. It is a one keystroke equivalent to Alt-Ctrl unless, as sometimes happens, it is processed completely within the keyboard controller function and not passed to Windows for processing.

 

[brennenpkt]

Turns out that it is in the properties and there is a hotkey that you can hit. Crt+alt+<arrow> My problem was that I was attempting to hit the hot key before logging in. The Intel extreme graphics 2 app has this built in to it. Thank you all for your help and I hope this thread will help other

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