Flipping screen image

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John Reagan

My Mom has picked up some virus/joke that has flipped her screen image
upside down. She doesn't remember running any strange program and she
claims (I haven't verified) that she has run NAV with the latest
definitions.

I'm guessing there is some registry key that can do that (I can imagine real
uses of such a feature for hanging monitors from walls or ceilings).

Anybody have a hint on how to get rid of it?

Thanks

John Reagan
 
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My Mom has picked up some virus/joke that has flipped her screen image
upside down. She doesn't remember running any strange program and she
claims (I haven't verified) that she has run NAV with the latest
definitions.

I'm guessing there is some registry key that can do that (I can imagine real
uses of such a feature for hanging monitors from walls or ceilings).

Anybody have a hint on how to get rid of it?
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There is probably a tick-box in the video display properties to rotate
the display (90 degrees at a time) .. useful for people who have
rotate-able
LCD panels. groups.google.com 'video display inverted' should find you
more details.
 
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There is probably a tick-box in the video display properties to rotate
the display (90 degrees at a time) .. useful for people who have
rotate-able
LCD panels. groups.google.com 'video display inverted' should find you
more details.
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I'll have to check with my Mom. She doesn't have an LCD display and the
system is 'out of the box' fresh (ie, she didn't go download any drivers
from nvidia, etc.)

I did the groups.google.com search and found little useful information.

John Reagan
 
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I'll have to check with my Mom. She doesn't have an LCD display and the
system is 'out of the box' fresh (ie, she didn't go download any drivers
from nvidia, etc.)

I did the groups.google.com search and found little useful information.
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Hmm, I guess we need to change the search a bit .. try

groups.google.com 'windows Xp video display "upside down"' (keep the
double quotes, drop the single quotes). then hit sort by date. Seems
most users prefer 'upside down' to 'inverted'.
 
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Hmm, I guess we need to change the search a bit .. try

groups.google.com 'windows Xp video display "upside down"' (keep the
double quotes, drop the single quotes). then hit sort by date. Seems
most users prefer 'upside down' to 'inverted'.
Click to expand...

Now that did the trick. I remember that her machine as Intel integrated
graphics and I found several threads about Control+ALT+down-arrow flipping
the screen and Control+ALT+up-arrow restoring it. I'll have her try that.
I also got some hints about checking for joke programs run at startup.

Thanks!

John
 
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