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[Tracy]

My windows xp home machine has a weird issue. My mother was cleaning the
keyboard and some combo of keys turned the desk top on its side. My windows
tool bar is now on the right hand side of the screen and all her icons are on
the bottom of the screen. Like it was rotated 90 degrees to the left. Help !!

 

[nass]

My windows xp home machine has a weird issue. My mother was cleaning the
keyboard and some combo of keys turned the desk top on its side. My windows
tool bar is now on the right hand side of the screen and all her icons are on
the bottom of the screen. Like it was rotated 90 degrees to the left. Help !!

Try Pressing CTRL+ALT + Arrow UP or Right or Left or Down.
Also you can Right click your Desktop and see if there is a properties to
Rotate the display 90 Deg.
HTH.
Let us know.
Regards,
nass

 

[JS]

Some graphics cards come with utilities 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.

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

JS
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[Ken Blake, MVP]

My windows xp home machine has a weird issue. My mother was cleaning the
keyboard and some combo of keys turned the desk top on its side. My windows
tool bar is now on the right hand side of the screen and all her icons are on
the bottom of the screen. Like it was rotated 90 degrees to the left. Help !!

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. She accidentally pressed Ctrl-Alt, and some
arrow key.

Rotate it back using those keys.