monitor image turned sideways

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phoebe

My monitor image is now turned 90 degrees so I have to read sideways. This
happened when I was changing the batteries in my wireless keyboard. The
keyboard was flipped so I could work on the back and when I put the new
batteries in the monitor was reading sideways! I cold flip the page from
having the top of the page at the left side to having the top at the right by
just pushing down on the back of the keyboard when it was turned over , but
no luck at righting it to the top of the page at the top of the monitor. My
neck is getting tired of reading sideways! Please help if you can.
 
J

JS

The following may work: CTRL+ALT+Up arrow
or some similar key keyboard combination for some but not all video cards.

Some graphics cards also come a utility or an option to rotate your display.
Most likely to be found in the Display/Advanced option.
You may also be able to turn off Display rotation so the problem does not
happen again.

Click on Start/Control Panel/Display/Setting Tab, Advanced button or it
could be an
Icon in the control panel specifically for the Video Card you have.
 
R

Richard Cranium

My monitor image is now turned 90 degrees so I have to read sideways. This
happened when I was changing the batteries in my wireless keyboard. The
keyboard was flipped so I could work on the back and when I put the new
batteries in the monitor was reading sideways! I cold flip the page from
having the top of the page at the left side to having the top at the right by
just pushing down on the back of the keyboard when it was turned over , but
no luck at righting it to the top of the page at the top of the monitor. My
neck is getting tired of reading sideways! Please help if you can.
Click to expand...


You can work while lying down on your side, or, CTRL-ALT-RIGHT ARROW
(or LEFT ARROW). Up and down arrow flips display horizontally. At
least, this is on my PC.
 
K

Ken Blake, MVP

My monitor image is now turned 90 degrees so I have to read sideways. This
happened when I was changing the batteries in my wireless keyboard. The
keyboard was flipped so I could work on the back and when I put the new
batteries in the monitor was reading sideways! I cold flip the page from
having the top of the page at the left side to having the top at the right by
just pushing down on the back of the keyboard when it was turned over , but
no luck at righting it to the top of the page at the top of the monitor. My
neck is getting tired of reading sideways! Please help if you can.
Click to expand...


The ability to rotate the screen image is a feature of your video
card, to help it work with monitors that rotate to portrait
orientation. Almost certainly you accidentally pressed Ctrl-Alt, and
some arrow key.
Rotate it back using those keys.
 
P

phoebe

JS said:
The following may work: CTRL+ALT+Up arrow
or some similar key keyboard combination for some but not all video cards.

Some graphics cards also come a utility or an option to rotate your display.
Most likely to be found in the Display/Advanced option.
You may also be able to turn off Display rotation so the problem does not
happen again.

Click on Start/Control Panel/Display/Setting Tab, Advanced button or it
could be an
Icon in the control panel specifically for the Video Card you have.

--
JS
http://www.pagestart.com





Thanks, My neck is feeling much better now that I'm upright!
Click to expand...
Phoebe
 
P

phoebe

Richard Cranium said:
You can work while lying down on your side, or, CTRL-ALT-RIGHT ARROW
(or LEFT ARROW). Up and down arrow flips display horizontally. At
least, this is on my PC.
Click to expand...
Thanks, I decided to try the keyboard remedy rather than the prone
remedy...it worked!
Phoebe
 
P

phoebe

Ken Blake said:
The ability to rotate the screen image is a feature of your video
card, to help it work with monitors that rotate to portrait
orientation. Almost certainly you accidentally pressed Ctrl-Alt, and
some arrow key.
Rotate it back using those keys.
Click to expand...
Much better I'm upright now!
Thanks,
Phoebe
 

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