OK, I was browsing the net when suddenly my screen switched sides. My icons are along the bottom and my task bar is up the right hand side. I have no idea how it happened and no idea how to fix it. My screen is literally round the wrong way.
Im am typing sideways at the moment and it is rather painful on my neck.
Anybody know how to fix it????
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Oh Steph, I could just kiss you and squeeze you and everything right now. Thats my computer sorted thank goodness:hump: :hump: :hump: :hump:
And thanx to everyone else to helped.
Vicky xxx
Dont suppose I could watch you doing that ????
:smackbottom: :smackbottom: :smackbottom: :smackbottom: :smackbottom: I suppose :P
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Is it XP?
If so control panel - performance and Maintenance and on left hands side do sytem restore. Set a restore point of say yesturday when you know it was working and let it mend itself.
And for future reference, it was most likely a setting.
Intel video cards have hotkeys that can rotate the screen, and it's quite easy to accidentally press them moving the keyboard around, without knowing what you've done!
Other cards have similar. If you can cope with the bad neck, then to fix it usually you just go to the display properties (right click on desktop, or go through control panel), select advanced in the settings bit, and take it from there
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Oh Steph, I could just kiss you and squeeze you and everything right now. Thats my computer sorted thank goodness
And thanx to everyone else to helped.
Vicky xxx
Dont suppose I could watch you doing that ????
:smackbottom: :smackbottom: :smackbottom: :smackbottom: :smackbottom: I suppose :P
WooooHoooo!
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Thanks very much shambolic!!!
We just recently got a new graphics card fitted. Is there any chance it could have been that do you know?
Vicky xx
Depends on the card. I've only come across someone accidentally managing it with Intel cards, which are almost always onboard ones nowadays, but there's no reason why other cards might not have the same problem. To rotate the screen on my PC I have to go through the settings, there's no keyboard shortcut, but that doesn't mean other makes/ models are the same of course.
Not that it really makes any difference if you don't ever have the problem again
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Thanks very much shambolic!!!
We just recently got a new graphics card fitted. Is there any chance it could have been that do you know?
Vicky xx
Depends on the card. I've only come across someone accidentally managing it with Intel cards, which are almost always onboard ones nowadays, but there's no reason why other cards might not have the same problem. To rotate the screen on my PC I have to go through the settings, there's no keyboard shortcut, but that doesn't mean other makes/ models are the same of course.
Not that it really makes any difference if you don't ever have the problem again
Mine's an ATI Radeon X300 and that has hotkeys for rotating the screen (it's for LCD wifescreen monitors you can get now that swivel between landscape and portrait mode)
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Mine's an ATI Radeon X300 and that has hotkeys for rotating the screen (it's for LCD wifescreen monitors you can get now that swivel between landscape and portrait mode)
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Mine's a much more basic Radeon, and has the option to set hotkeys for rotation, but none set by default. In fact, given most stuff only comes with manuals on the CD if at all, and most people don't RTFM, setting hotkeys by default seems a silly idea to me. Far too easy tohjit the wrong key when frenziedly typing away...
