Rotate sreen?

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My bird cleaned my laptop and now the sreen view is sideways. How do I rotate it back widthways? Thanks.

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pavaroti:
My bird cleaned my laptop and now the sreen view is sideways. How do I rotate it back widthways? Thanks.

Sounds like you have a key combination for it and she has pressed them by accident when cleaning the keyboard. If you have a key marked FB, usually in blue or orange, then you will see symbols in the same colours on some keys, usually the function keys F1, F2f etc. One of these will rotate the display so hold down the FB key and press each one until you find the right one, the symbol is often either 2 rectangles or one with a curved arrow.

Failing that it will be a setting in the control panel for your graphics card but I don’t see how she could change that while cleaning it

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If your running Win Xp then

pressing Ctrl + Alt + UP Arrow Key, or try Ctrl + Alt + and a different Arrow Key.

If that does not work:

Right-click on empty Desktop > Graphics Options > Rotation.

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Try Control, Alt and Up arrow

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Try clicking the right side and holding it
then dragging back to the bottom
cheers
Steve

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Thanks for replies will try when back home on wednesday again. Its a compaq laptop with win vista. Using phone for net while away at work cheers.

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also - right click desktop select ‘graphics/display options’ or soemt like that and within that u should be able to rotate

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Pops77:
also - right click desktop select ‘graphics/display options’ or soemt like that and within that u should be able to rotate

Yep thats it takes 5 seconds. However the bird took laptop to our local asian/corner shop yesterday while i was away at work, a jack of all trades it seems. They charged her/me £25 to rotate the screen back. :open_mouth: :blush: :confused: :cry: :unamused: . Nice work if you can get it i suppose. :wink: :sunglasses: :laughing:

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pavaroti:
Yep thats it takes 5 seconds. However the bird took laptop to our local asian/corner shop yesterday while i was away at work, a jack of all trades it seems. They charged her/me £25 to rotate the screen back. :open_mouth: :blush: :confused: :cry: :unamused: . Nice work if you can get it i suppose. :wink: :sunglasses: :laughing:

It is :wink: and this sort of thing happens a lot which helps my pocket money fund :smiley:
Malware removal brings in even more :grimacing:

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Colingl:

pavaroti:
Yep thats it takes 5 seconds. However the bird took laptop to our local asian/corner shop yesterday while i was away at work, a jack of all trades it seems. They charged her/me £25 to rotate the screen back. :open_mouth: :blush: :confused: :cry: :unamused: . Nice work if you can get it i suppose. :wink: :sunglasses: :laughing:

It is :wink: and this sort of thing happens a lot which helps my pocket money fund :smiley:
Malware removal brings in even more :grimacing:

I feel even more guilty using system restore :laughing: