Change vertical screen back to orginal horizontal

Anonymous
2010-09-20T17:44:20+00:00

I need help with reverting my computer screen back to the orginally horizontal screen.  I somehow hit a series of keys on my keyboard (laying it close to my chest to reposition my body for comfort in surfing) and ajusted my screen to a ertical position.  I have an all in one computer screen that doesn't allow for the monitor to turn vertically to use the vertical positioning.  How do I get it back to normal?  Very strange.....I didn't even know the computer presented a choice.

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2010-09-20T18:02:57+00:00

On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:44:20 +0000, churc001 wrote:

I need help with reverting my computer screen back to the orginally horizontal screen.  I somehow hit a series of keys on my keyboard (laying it close to my chest to reposition my body for comfort in surfing) and ajusted my screen to a ertical position.  I have an all in one computer screen that doesn't allow for the monitor to turn vertically to use the vertical positioning.  How do I get it back to normal?  Very strange.....I didn't even know the computer presented a choice.

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.

Ken Blake (MS MVP)

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-12-07T20:32:03+00:00

    Thanks soooooooo much I don't know how it happened, but still thanks sooooooooo much.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-11-29T17:48:03+00:00

    Haha! Amazing! I didn't even know the screen could do this.  Hubby woke me up at 3 a.m. to get me to fix his screen. I was bewildered at how he could have possibly gotten it vertical and told him to use my lap top until I got up at an hour most normal people wake up! lol Very thankful for your post, I'd have not had a clue otherwise how to even begin to fix this!

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-11-17T00:01:48+00:00

    I need help with reverting my computer screen back to the orginally horizontal screen.  I somehow hit a series of keys on my keyboard (laying it close to my chest to reposition my body for comfort in surfing) and ajusted my screen to a ertical position.  I have an all in one computer screen that doesn't allow for the monitor to turn vertically to use the vertical positioning.  How do I get it back to normal?  Very strange.....I didn't even know the computer presented a choice.

    I hve same issue, except I was just using

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-08-23T17:09:15+00:00

    I tried this, and my screen moved in every direction except back to normal.  It seems that the "up" arrow is frozen.  Does anyone know a solution?

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