My screen just rotated 90 degrees (and I don't have a tablet)

[Rotater]

I'm sitting here working, I think I mishit some key and all of a sudden
everything on my screen rotated 90 degrees clockwise. I mean everything,
except the controls. When I scroll up, the cursor goes right. This is
making it very difficult to navigate and fix the problem. I'm sending this
not from a different computer. Please help.

 

[Bruce Hagen]

I'm sitting here working, I think I mishit some key and all of a sudden
everything on my screen rotated 90 degrees clockwise. I mean everything,
except the controls. When I scroll up, the cursor goes right. This is
making it very difficult to navigate and fix the problem. I'm sending
this
not from a different computer. Please help.

Hold down the Ctrl and Alt keys while you tap the arrow keys until you get
it right.

 

[njem]

I'm sitting here working, I think I mishit some key and all of a sudden
everything on my screen rotated 90 degrees clockwise.  I mean everything,
except the controls.  When I scroll up, the cursor goes right.  This is
making it very difficult to navigate and fix the problem.  I'm sending this
not from a different computer.  Please help.

On some systems the video driver has hot keys to rotate the screen so
you can get the portrait or landscape orientation. On mine it's Ctrl-
Alt and then the arrow keys turn it up, right, etc. On some monitors
that pivot they send a signal to the video card and it rotates the
image to match your turning of the screen. I suppose that could go
haywire.

 

[Rotater]

Thank you. While I was waiting for you guys I just did a system restore.
Should it happen again, now I know. Thanks again.

 

[Bruce Hagen]

YW. You can do it now if you want to try. <eg>

 

[Elmo]

Thank you. While I was waiting for you guys I just did a system restore.
Should it happen again, now I know. Thanks again.

You can also turn that nuisance off in the Display Properties.