Help my screen has flipped upside down and my mouse functions that

[joan]

Hi my son was using the computer and the keyboard went to slip and he grabbed
it and hit a bunch of keys at once. He looked up and the screen was upside
down (not the start bar being moved I know how to do that) but everything was
upside down. Everything still functions even the mouse upside down. I shut
down and unplugged the computer and monitor from the wall and I also have
tried the monitors physical settings that doesn't work. Help if anyone can
thanks

 

[JS]

Some graphics cards come with utilities or an option to rotate your display.
Most likely to be found in the Display/Advanced option.

Click on Start/Control Panel/Display/Setting Tab, Advanced button or it
could be an
Icon in the control panel specifically for the Video Card you have.

The following may also work: CTRL+ALT+Up arrow (on some combination of arrow
keys) on some but not all video cards.
Which is what your son most likely did.

JS
"joan" <joan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7621C5F9-71A5-40B6-8A81-C0A2C456594E@microsoft.com...
> Hi my son was using the computer and the keyboard went to slip and he
> grabbed
> it and hit a bunch of keys at once. He looked up and the screen was
> upside
> down (not the start bar being moved I know how to do that) but everything
> was
> upside down. Everything still functions even the mouse upside down. I
> shut
> down and unplugged the computer and monitor from the wall and I also have
> tried the monitors physical settings that doesn't work. Help if anyone
> can
> thanks

 

[Ken Blake]

"joan" <joan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7621C5F9-71A5-40B6-8A81-C0A2C456594E@microsoft.com...

> Hi my son was using the computer and the keyboard went to slip and he
> grabbed
> it and hit a bunch of keys at once. He looked up and the screen was
> upside
> down (not the start bar being moved I know how to do that) but everything
> was
> upside down.


The ability to rotate the screen image is a feature of your video card, to
help it work with monitors that rotate to portrait orientation The keys he
hit that made it happen were Ctrl-Alt, and some arrow key. Rotate it back
using those keys.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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[joan]

Re: Help my screen has flipped upside down and my mouse functions

Thank JS that worked and it was quick thank you thank you thank you. I did
disable the keys in the display settings so it won't happen again unless I
go into the settings and do it myself. Again very helpful thank you Joan

"JS" wrote:

> Some graphics cards come with utilities or an option to rotate your display.
> Most likely to be found in the Display/Advanced option.
>
> Click on Start/Control Panel/Display/Setting Tab, Advanced button or it
> could be an
> Icon in the control panel specifically for the Video Card you have.
>
> The following may also work: CTRL+ALT+Up arrow (on some combination of arrow
> keys) on some but not all video cards.
> Which is what your son most likely did.
>
> JS
> "joan" <joan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:7621C5F9-71A5-40B6-8A81-C0A2C456594E@microsoft.com...
> > Hi my son was using the computer and the keyboard went to slip and he
> > grabbed
> > it and hit a bunch of keys at once. He looked up and the screen was
> > upside
> > down (not the start bar being moved I know how to do that) but everything
> > was
> > upside down. Everything still functions even the mouse upside down. I
> > shut
> > down and unplugged the computer and monitor from the wall and I also have
> > tried the monitors physical settings that doesn't work. Help if anyone
> > can
> > thanks
>
>
>

 

[JS]

Re: Help my screen has flipped upside down and my mouse functions

You're Welcome.

JS

"joan" <joan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:43991BC5-CF58-4257-8EEB-FDBC536A0CAE@microsoft.com...
> Thank JS that worked and it was quick thank you thank you thank you. I
> did
> disable the keys in the display settings so it won't happen again unless
> I
> go into the settings and do it myself. Again very helpful thank you Joan
>
> "JS" wrote:
>
>> Some graphics cards come with utilities or an option to rotate your
>> display.
>> Most likely to be found in the Display/Advanced option.
>>
>> Click on Start/Control Panel/Display/Setting Tab, Advanced button or it
>> could be an
>> Icon in the control panel specifically for the Video Card you have.
>>
>> The following may also work: CTRL+ALT+Up arrow (on some combination of
>> arrow
>> keys) on some but not all video cards.
>> Which is what your son most likely did.
>>
>> JS
>> "joan" <joan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:7621C5F9-71A5-40B6-8A81-C0A2C456594E@microsoft.com...
>> > Hi my son was using the computer and the keyboard went to slip and he
>> > grabbed
>> > it and hit a bunch of keys at once. He looked up and the screen was
>> > upside
>> > down (not the start bar being moved I know how to do that) but
>> > everything
>> > was
>> > upside down. Everything still functions even the mouse upside down. I
>> > shut
>> > down and unplugged the computer and monitor from the wall and I also
>> > have
>> > tried the monitors physical settings that doesn't work. Help if anyone
>> > can
>> > thanks
>>
>>
>>