Child's Play! But what? and How to Fix???

[Guest]

My 5 year old grandson was playing games on his parents new XP Pro computer. When his parents checked up on him, he had managed to completely rotate the monitor display 90deg clockwise. i.e. from landscape to rotated portrait, the task bar, office task bar, and all icons are rotated. New programs and mouse movements are also rotated to the new orientation. I've spent the better part of 2 hours working with physical monitor setup controls, control panel display and as many different property setups as I can find...no luck. The 5 year old must have hit upon a combination of control keys that did the dirty work. Help me decipher what the 5 year old accomplished and figure out how to fix the child's play. PLEASE!

 

[Guest]

LOL LOL. Sorry but isn't it amazing how a simple unfettered mind can do things on a computer that even a well trained and ordered mind can't. Your solutions is quite simple though. Right click on your desktop and then click properties and then click on the "settings" tab and then click the "advanced" button down the lower right. Now one of the tabs here will have the name of your video card. In my case it's GeForce2 MX\MX400 and I click on that tab to open it up. Now somewhere in here you will see NVRotate or something to do with "Rotate" and when you click that option a window will open allowing you to alter the configuration or orientation of your desktop display. Good luck. }:~)

 

[Crusty \Old B@stard\]

Go into the display properties for your NVIDIA video card. Find the tab that
says "NVRotate". Fix the problem (-:

--
Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

 

[Guest]

Thank you, I am on my way back over to the computer and will give it a try and will let you know what happens.. Note however, that I can't find any reference to NVRotate or Rotate on my system and I aksi have a GeForce2 Card.--
Looking for ANSWERS!

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

Then, once you have fixed the computer, do not allow a 5 year old child to
be on the computer without supervision, any more than you would allow it to
drive a car.

;-)

Tom
| Thank you, I am on my way back over to the computer and will give it a try
and will let you know what happens.. Note however, that I can't find any
reference to NVRotate or Rotate on my system and I aksi have a GeForce2
Card.--
| Looking for ANSWERS!
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| "The Unknown P" wrote:
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| > LOL LOL. Sorry but isn't it amazing how a simple unfettered mind can do
things on a computer that even a well trained and ordered mind can't. Your
solutions is quite simple though. Right click on your desktop and then click
properties and then click on the "settings" tab and then click the
"advanced" button down the lower right. Now one of the tabs here will have
the name of your video card. In my case it's GeForce2 MX\MX400 and I click
on that tab to open it up. Now somewhere in here you will see NVRotate or
something to do with "Rotate" and when you click that option a window will
open allowing you to alter the configuration or orientation of your desktop
display. Good luck. }:~)
| > --
| > There are three types of people in computing, those that can count and
those that can't.
| >
| >

 

[zippy]

LOL!! Welcome to my world!!! My seven year old one time got my computer
all messed up. The start button took up the whole screen. Don't know what
the heck he did. I spent four hours trying all different things. Finally
gave up in frustration and walked away. He comes out 10 minutes later, Mom
I fixed it. I cursed for the rest of the night. Send your five year old
back in. He can fix it....

My 5 year old grandson was playing games on his parents new XP Pro

computer. When his parents checked up on him, he had managed to completely
rotate the monitor display 90deg clockwise. i.e. from landscape to rotated
portrait, the task bar, office task bar, and all icons are rotated. New
programs and mouse movements are also rotated to the new orientation. I've
spent the better part of 2 hours working with physical monitor setup
controls, control panel display and as many different property setups as I
can find...no luck. The 5 year old must have hit upon a combination of
control keys that did the dirty work. Help me decipher what the 5 year old
accomplished and figure out how to fix the child's play. PLEASE!

 

[Guest]

Thank you! You provided the key to success. There was a twist to the solution that I must share! (NOTE:, the 5 year old grandson is amazingly far from unfettered and simple...a long story)

First, his dad had given in and rotated the flat screen monitor and was using it in portrait form for document editing. Not something new by any means! It worked well, except that pictures were stretched and compressed in the wrong directions. When I found the drivers as directed, it displayed a list of hot keys that did the rotation. i.e. the grandson had "lucked" into one of the magic combinations: Alt, Ctl, and left arrow. (each of the arrow keys forced a different perspective/rotation…very interesting)

Grandson was “relievedâ€, given a kiss and then trundeled off to bed. Dad "reluctantly" rotated the flatscreen back to "normal"!!! He now knows how to make it happen, if he really likes it that way!!!!

Thanks again for great support and a fun time solving the mystery of letting the fingers do the walking!!!

Peace and Thank you all!

Peace and Thank you all!