How to rotate screen back to normal

Anonymous
2011-03-09T12:12:14+00:00

my whole home page  or i should say everything is sideways and i cant get it back to normal!!!

*original title - how do u get my screan to rotate back to normal?*

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Anonymous
2011-03-09T12:23:40+00:00

Hi

Use the following hotkey combination to rotate the screen.

Press and hold Ctrl+Alt and press either the left or right Arrow key.

Let us know the results.

Regards.

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-03-31T22:35:41+00:00

    Great help, Thanks!! :)

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-05-10T21:56:47+00:00

    It work great and your instructions were very easy to read, for a non tech person like me

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-08-09T04:31:02+00:00

    That rotated it, but it is sitting a good inch to the right.. All my icons are on the left side instead of bottom .

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-09-09T19:06:42+00:00

    I tried to press and hold the Ctrl and Alt keys and pressed the left and right arrows and nothing happened..Now mt desktop is stuck on huge icons and I can't figure out how to get the icons back to where they were before..

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