[viksvet]

The windows screen on my Dell Vista laptop has flipped sideways. How can I make this right?

[VladTheImpaler1990]

viksvet, on 17 March 2010 - 07:40 PM, said:

The windows screen on my Dell Vista laptop has flipped sideways. How can I make this right?

Welcome to PC World

Go to your control panel. Appearance and personalization. Then to Display and then Adjust Resolution ( This is with in windows 7)

For Earlier windows, right click on desktop, properties, display settings, then go to resolution. (Forgot the exact steps but its more or like that.)

Once you done one of those two things, then you must select landscape

And all is done.

[LincolnSpector]

viksvet, on 17 March 2010 - 07:40 PM, said:

The windows screen on my Dell Vista laptop has flipped sideways. How can I make this right?

In Vista, right-click the desktop and select Graphic Options, then Rotation, then whatever is appropriate.

It's also likely that your particular laptop has a hotkey for rotation that you pressed accidentally. You might want to check the manual and find out what it is.

Lincoln

[TonyRony]

viksvet, on 17 March 2010 - 07:40 PM, said:

The windows screen on my Dell Vista laptop has flipped sideways. How can I make this right?

In Windows XP, the ability to rotate your display via key strokes is apparently not well known or may even be undocumented. I accidentally discovered this at work one day. I meant to press Control-Alt-Delete, but instead, I had actually pressed Control-Alt-DownArrow. This flipped my display upside-down. Pressing Control-Alt-RightArrow would rotate the display 90° to the right.

This became a little joke around the office. As a prank, I went to a friend's workstation that he had left unattended, then I flipped the display. No, I didn't let him suffer for too long and pressing Control-Alt-UpArrow fixed it, of course. Word spread and before long, scores of my colleagues were running around flipping people's displays. It was hilarious.

Although all our workstations were XP systems, some computers responded to this key combination; some did not. By the way ... These were desktop workstations, not laptops.

Tony

[LincolnSpector]

TonyRony, on 26 April 2010 - 05:55 AM, said:

In Windows XP, the ability to rotate your display via key strokes is apparently not well known or may even be undocumented. I accidentally discovered this at work one day. I meant to press Control-Alt-Delete, but instead, I had actually pressed Control-Alt-DownArrow. This flipped my display upside-down. Pressing Control-Alt-RightArrow would rotate the display 90° to the right.

This became a little joke around the office. As a prank, I went to a friend's workstation that he had left unattended, then I flipped the display. No, I didn't let him suffer for too long and pressing Control-Alt-UpArrow fixed it, of course. Word spread and before long, scores of my colleagues were running around flipping people's displays. It was hilarious.

Although all our workstations were XP systems, some computers responded to this key combination; some did not. By the way ... These were desktop workstations, not laptops.

Tony

That's great! It works in Vista and Win7, too.

Lincoln

[rgreen4]

The other day on the Nascar channel on Sirius/XM satellite radio, one of the DJ's had that same problem with a Dell. A listener suggested the hot key combination listed for XP and it worked (the actual OS on the new Dell was Win7). I just tried it on my HP laptop and it had not effect on Win7. Apparently it is a Dell hotkey combo.

The use of the display properties changes did work on my HP with Win7.

[Amandababara]

rgreen4, on 26 April 2010 - 07:56 AM, said:

The other day on the Nascar channel on Sirius/XM satellite radio, one of the DJ's had that same problem with a Dell. A listener suggested the hot key combination listed for XP and it worked (the actual OS on the new Dell was Win7). I just tried it on my HP laptop and it had not effect on Win7. Apparently it is a Dell hotkey combo.

The use of the display properties changes did work on my HP with Win7.

I never met this problem before