My two year old managed to alter the orientation of my screen by randomly
pressing the key board and I can't seem to reorientate it. The image has
rotated 90 degrees clockwise and I am certain it didn't happen by altering
the settings on the monitor. We are using XP home and any help would be
appreciated.

Cheers

Ctrl+Alt+Up Arrow

Kardon Coupé wrote:
> I could be in your graphics card advanced properties (right click
> desktop/properties/settings tab/advanced, is where I find mine), I know my
> graphics card has that option.
>
> "jeets" <jeets@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:7255EFCE-6FF0-43E0-8AC3-A2469AD9B861@microsoft.com...
>> My two year old managed to alter the orientation of my screen by randomly
>> pressing the key board and I can't seem to reorientate it. The image has
>> rotated 90 degrees clockwise and I am certain it didn't happen by
>> altering the settings on the monitor. We are using XP home and any help
>> would be appreciated.
>>
>> Cheers

> Ctrl+Alt+Up Arrow
>
That doesn't work on my machine, is that Graphics Card or XP specific?

"Kardon Coupé" <prefer.to@readon.newsgroups> wrote in message
news:uvO0YXKNHHA.3872@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> Ctrl+Alt+Up Arrow
>>
> That doesn't work on my machine, is that Graphics Card or XP specific?


That is the common shortcut implemented by several graphics cards to rotate
the screen to the normal orientation. Ctrl-Alt-Right Arrow turns it 90 to
the right of normal orientation, Ctrl-Alt-Left Arrow 90 to the left of
normal, and Ctrl-Alt-Down Arrow turns it upside down. But it is the
graphics driver that would need to support those key combinations in order
for them to work, not XP.
--
Tom Porterfield

Kardon Coupé wrote:
>> Ctrl+Alt+Up Arrow
>>
> That doesn't work on my machine, is that Graphics Card or XP specific?

Right click on desktop and see what options are displayed re graphics, i.e.
properties or rotation?

You're a genius! It worked! Cheers

"Smirnoff" wrote:

> Ctrl+Alt+Up Arrow
>
> Kardon Coupé wrote:
> > I could be in your graphics card advanced properties (right click
> > desktop/properties/settings tab/advanced, is where I find mine), I know my
> > graphics card has that option.
> >
> > "jeets" <jeets@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:7255EFCE-6FF0-43E0-8AC3-A2469AD9B861@microsoft.com...
> >> My two year old managed to alter the orientation of my screen by randomly
> >> pressing the key board and I can't seem to reorientate it. The image has
> >> rotated 90 degrees clockwise and I am certain it didn't happen by
> >> altering the settings on the monitor. We are using XP home and any help
> >> would be appreciated.
> >>
> >> Cheers
>
>
>

You're welcome.

jeets wrote:
> You're a genius! It worked! Cheers
>
> "Smirnoff" wrote:
>
>> Ctrl+Alt+Up Arrow
>>
>> Kardon Coupé wrote:
>>> I could be in your graphics card advanced properties (right click
>>> desktop/properties/settings tab/advanced, is where I find mine), I know
>>> my graphics card has that option.
>>>
>>> "jeets" <jeets@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>> news:7255EFCE-6FF0-43E0-8AC3-A2469AD9B861@microsoft.com...
>>>> My two year old managed to alter the orientation of my screen by
>>>> randomly pressing the key board and I can't seem to reorientate it.
>>>> The image has rotated 90 degrees clockwise and I am certain it didn't
>>>> happen by altering the settings on the monitor. We are using XP home
>>>> and any help would be appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers