Re: Display Upside Down

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"Bill Sharpe" <wfsnopam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Gene E. Bloch wrote:
Here's what Gerald Fritzmeyer wrote on 8/17/09:
This is a very useful function for when you spill an entire cup of
coffee in the keyboard of your laptop. Set the screen for upside down
display, then hang your laptop upside down so that the coffee can run
out. Now you can view the screen normally while the keyboard dries.

This is why they put the feature on machines. There is no other reason.

You're dead wrong - there is a second reason that I already mentioned,
namely for a practical joke.

Think how much fun it would be if you turned someone's monitor 90 degrees
CCW, and they had no idea that it was normal and could very eaily be
fixed.

Actually, I hate practical jokes, but at least I had fun yanking your
chain. I hope you don't mind :-)

Gerald.


"OldManEd" <econgleton@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I accidently hit some key combination that flip the display on my Vista
laptop. Everything was upside down and the cursor moved in the opposite
direction than what the physical moved. In other words, if I move mouse
to right cursor moved to left. Not sure what keys I hit.

Left Hand: Maybe <Function> key or <Ctrl> or <Alt> or any two of these.

Right Hand: Maybe <PageUp> or <PageDown> or <UpArrow> or <DownArrow>

I did these keystrokes with one motion.

I had to use System Restore to get back to a normal display.

Can someone tell me what keys I hit and how to restore display?

Why would anyone need this function?

OldEd

I can see a use for rotating right and left, but upside down is probably
most used, as reported, for practical jokes. Students in computer labs
like to drive the lab assistants nuts.

Bill

It's useful to be able to display a screen in any direction. Upside down
would be if you want to mount it under a cabinet to save desktop space. Of
course if it's a laptop screen you'd need an external mouse and keyboard for
that.


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