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HELP! Image on screen turned 90 degrees anti-clockwise

  • 06-01-2008 02:20PM
    #1
    Solar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14 ✭


    The image on the screen of my wife's laptop ( Toshiba running Windows Vista ) has turned 90 degrees anti-clockwise. She picked it up off the ground and may, or may not, have pressed some keys !! Any ideas how to get it back to normal???


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  • #2
    MarkR
    Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,251 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    Try ctrl + alt and up arrow to fix.


  • #3
    SuperSean11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,555 ✭✭✭SuperSean11


    Solar wrote: »
    The image on the screen of my wife's laptop ( Toshiba running Windows Vista ) has turned 90 degrees anti-clockwise. She picked it up off the ground and may, or may not, have pressed some keys !! Any ideas how to get it back to normal???

    Try pressing control, alt and up at the same time

    grrrrrrr beaten to it


  • #4
    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,212 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    Alternatively, right-click on the desktop - the pop-up menu should have an option to right it.


  • #5
    Solar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14 ✭Solar


    You guys !!!!!! That worked. Thanks a million.


  • #6
    CantGetNoSleep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,331 ✭✭✭CantGetNoSleep


    This is a great prank to do on people in work / college


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  • #7
    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,212 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    CantGetNoSleep wrote: »
    This is a great prank to do on people in work / college

    Or a personal favourite of mine is to take a screen capture, save it off using MS Paint.

    Now set that picture to the background and hide all the "real" icons.

    So the poor sod will be clicking on all the "icons" which are really a picture of the icons. :D


  • #8
    CantGetNoSleep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,331 ✭✭✭CantGetNoSleep


    Yeah that takes a few minutes to do though, this one can be done in seconds, always do it in a lecture if someone turns around to talk to the person on the other side of them


  • #9
    barett
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭barett


    tom dunne wrote: »
    Or a personal favourite of mine is to take a screen capture, save it off using MS Paint.

    Now set that picture to the background and hide all the "real" icons.

    So the poor sod will be clicking on all the "icons" which are really a picture of the icons. :D

    Don't forget to hide the start-bar, too. :)


  • #10
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Ha. All this talk of control+alt made me realise that i can zoom in on mozilla firefox by holding ctrl+alt and the mouse wheel, COOL:)


  • #11
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,165 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    CantGetNoSleep wrote: »
    Yeah that takes a few minutes to do though, this one can be done in seconds, always do it in a lecture if someone turns around to talk to the person on the other side of them

    There is a great program somewhere on the net called clippy (remember that guy from the old office packages) where clippy will appear at certain intervals and give the user advice. It's extremely irritating. We had it running on one of the lecturers computers, 'twas hilarious.


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