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Old 05-09-2007, 01:30 PM
joated
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Re: Display turned by 180degrees, HELP!!!

You saved my bacon! I, too, rotated my screen and didn't know how I did it.
(On a Toshiba laptop running Vista.) Got a crick in my neck and some twisted
fingers trying to read the screen and work the touch pad before I found your
solution.

Thanks Josh.

"Josh Einstein" wrote:

> For the Intel GMA the default hot keys are CTL+ALT+UP to get back to normal
> orientation. Left, down, and right are 90, 180, and 270 degrees
> respectively.
>
> So I have no idea if this will help you but that's all I can tell you
> unfortunately. Of course if you sell your Dell and buy a Tablet PC you get a
> handy hardware button to change the orientation and you can just physically
> rotate the tablet to see the screen. :) If that's not a sales pitch then I
> don't know what is.
>
> --
> Josh Einstein (Tablet PC MVP)
> Einstein Technologies
> Tablet Enhancements for Outlook - Try it free: www.tabletoutlook.com
> Chock full of inky goodness!
>
>
> "Watoba" <Watoba@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:95C1AFE9-7B19-4EE7-8B03-683161B35FC8@microsoft.com...
> >
> >
> > "Sven" wrote:
> >
> >> Are we on candid camera? A Dell Inspiron 2200 laptop is not a tablet PC.
> >> It
> >> should not have a feature to flip the screen, unless it is a special
> >> feature
> >> for hooking to a projector that is mounted upside down. Dell is pretty
> >> good
> >> about having help on their products. Have you looked for that? Is there
> >> some
> >> icon on the top row of keys that looks like it might be a rotate coupled
> >> with a function key?
> >>

> >
> > Hi Sven
> >
> > Yes, it's a notebook/laptop, not a tablet-PC, but I haven't found a better
> > sub-forum to describe my problem.
> > It's still valid and I'm desperate!!!
> > The only thing, which I have found was a button close to the clock with
> > "Dell-Quickset", where I can turn "presentation-modus" on or off. But
> > changing this feature has no effect on my screen. It's still
> > rotated/flipped.
> > Thank you very much for help!!

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Old 05-09-2007, 01:30 PM