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Desktop Icons gone mad!

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  • 28-05-2008 8:00pm
    #1
    thecleverone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 337 ✭✭


    Hi everyone

    Just wondering if you can help me. My 14 year old brother just called to say that he turned on his laptop earlier to go onto the internet and "something weird" happened and all his icons turned sideways on his desktop.

    Imagine an icon as a square box and instead of the name of the icon being on the bottom of the square its on the left hand side and the icons have turned accordingly.

    Any idea how to get them back to their normal "readable" position.

    Hope this makes sense.

    Cheers


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    #2
    Nerin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,523 ✭✭✭✭Nerin


    right click the desktop, go to graphics options and rotate.
    sounds like it was switched by accident


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    thecleverone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 337 ✭✭thecleverone


    Thanks Nerin but he has a windows vista laptop and when he right clicks on the desktop there are no graphics options. The options are

    View
    Sort
    Refresh and
    Personalise

    Any suggestions?
    tco


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    #4
    Nerin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,523 ✭✭✭✭Nerin


    sorry,im on xp myself (and sticking with it :p)


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    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,359 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    Ctrl+alt+ right arrow.


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    thecleverone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 337 ✭✭thecleverone


    Sorry Nerin... you're right. I thought he had the same system as me, but when he tried your option it worked, so cheers for that. He's one happy camper... he's been trying to figure it out for hours, bless!

    Thanks again


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    Anti
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,401 ✭✭✭✭Anti


    feylya wrote: »
    Ctrl+alt+ right arrow.


    That does nowt for me


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    Nichololas
    Registered Users Posts: 1,186 ✭✭✭Nichololas


    Anti wrote: »
    That does nowt for me

    I'm pretty sure it's just a key-combo that comes with the control software for some graphics cards (ATI?).


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    Anti
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    Enlil_Nick wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure it's just a key-combo that comes with the control software for some graphics cards (ATI?).

    Yeah sounds like it, I havent had an ATI card since the x1950pro. Maybe fey is just winding us up :p


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    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,359 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    Na, it's a common enough shortcut. Might be ctrl-alt-shift but I think it's just ctrl-alt


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    #11
    Anti
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    now i know your taking the michael :p


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    feylya
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    http://www.motherboardpoint.com/t147312-rotate-display-on-inspiron.html


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