Using windows 7. My screen flipped 90 degrees. How do I bring it back to normal?

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Using windows 7. My screen flipped 90 degrees. How do I bring it back to normal?

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My screen flipped orientation 90 degrees to the left. I want to bring it back to normal. How? Control panel only allows flipping screen 180 degrees and that doesn't work.

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Anonymous

another way:

Hold down the Ctrl & Alt keys and use the arrow buttons to rotate it back.

My wife's cat does this all the time on her computer

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If your display card has enabled it then you can right-click on the desktop, select Graphics options, Rotation.

Your display card might have enabled a keyboard shortcut for this - see your manual.

Otherwise go to Control panel, Display, Change Display Settings, Advanced settings, {biggest tab - it will have the display card name on it}, Graphics options or similar term - then look around here for screen rotation settings [they are all laid out differently so you just have to look]. While you are there you can find out the keyboard shortcut that would have given you a quicker solution or you can often disable the keyboard shortcut so you don't get into this position again.

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Anonymous

Thanks so much, george1009! In the portrait orientation, even moving the mouse pointer was topsy-turvy; 'tis a relief to resume landscape.

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Anonymous

Thank you, thank you, thank you! It was driving me crazy trying to figure it out.

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