help! desktop display problem!

[Guest]

Hi! I really need some help from someone...
after booting my laptop up as normal the desktop is being displayed on its
side and i cant get it to go back to normal at all. I've tried rebooting in
safe mode and doing system restores nut neither worked. Urget advise required
as i have to doing an essay for uni over the weekend and writing sideways is
not easy!

 

[smlunatick]

Hi! I really need some help from someone...
after booting my laptop up as normal the desktop is being displayed on its
side and i cant get it to go back to normal at all. I've tried rebooting in
safe mode and doing system restores nut neither worked. Urget advise required
as i have to doing an essay for uni over the weekend and writing sideways is
not easy!

Check the Display settings in Control Panel. Most PCs nowadays have
video card drivers that allow you to rotate the display 90, 270 and
360 degrees. Without make/model of laptop/video card, we can only
give you general methods of changing this.

 

[Guest]

thanks for your advice but i've searched everywhere and i cant find anything

 

[Elmo]

thanks for your advice but I've searched everywhere and I can't find anything

Then you should have posted the make/model so we could look up the solution.

Try this: Press Ctrl/Up-cursor or Ctrl/Shift/R

 

[Guest]

thanks joe
tried it but neither worked.
I have a dell inspiron 1300 if that makes any difference x

 

[Paul]

<snip>
after booting my laptop up as normal the desktop is being displayed on its
side

<snip>

Do you mean the entire desktop or just the Taskbar (with its Start button,
Quicklaunch buttons, and System Tray)?

Paul

 

[Elmo]

thanks joe
tried it but neither worked.
I have a dell inspiron 1300 if that makes any difference x

Whoops! I meant Ctrl/Alt/Up-Cursor. Also look here:

http://www.dellcommunity.com/suppor...deo&message.id=148626&query.id=264002#M148626

http://www.dellcommunity.com/suppor...bUQBPI072k_-1&submitted=true&q=rotate+display

 

[Guest]

It wa the entire desktop but i've managed to fix now! Thanx for your help
anyway someones else told me to try a combination of ctrl/alt/shift/arrow
keys and one of them worked. Think someone else who was using my pc has hit a
wrong key when they were using the shortcut to the task manager.
Thanx to everyone for there help xx