New Trick in Windows 7

I have just found that if you press CTRL+ALT+Arrow keys Then the
screen can be rotated.

Very interesting indeed.



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"Good Guy" wrote in message
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I have just found that if you press CTRL+ALT+Arrow keys Then the screen
can be rotated.

Very interesting indeed.





That is a feature of your video/graphic card, not Win7. It may work in any
Windows version if your video card is programmed that way. Mine is not and
that does not work.

Other options...................

Right click on the Desktop | Graphic Options | Rotation.

Right click on the Desktop | Screen Resolution | Orientation.
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Good Guy wrote:

I have just found that if you press CTRL+ALT+Arrow keys Then the
screen can be rotated.

Very interesting indeed.

That's pretty neat but makes the mouse hard to operate.

On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 03:47:32 +0000, Good Guy
wrote:


I have just found that if you press CTRL+ALT+Arrow keys Then the
screen can be rotated.

Very interesting indeed.

It would be more interesting if such a maneuver
could corral all the desktop icons back into their
original positions.

Good Guy wrote:

I have just found that if you press CTRL+ALT+Arrow keys Then the
screen can be rotated.

Very interesting indeed.



Works with WinXP Pro SP3 also.

Neat

On 16/01/2014 03:53, Bruce Hagen wrote:
"Good Guy" wrote in message
...

I have just found that if you press CTRL+ALT+Arrow keys Then the
screen can be rotated.

Very interesting indeed.





That is a feature of your video/graphic card, not Win7. It may work in
any Windows version if your video card is programmed that way. Mine is
not and that does not work.

Other options...................

Right click on the Desktop | Graphic Options | Rotation.

Right click on the Desktop | Screen Resolution | Orientation.


Bruce,

My setup is default settings only so it must be something with Intel
Graphics package. May be not on AMD chips.



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On 16/01/2014 04:06, Paul in Houston TX wrote:
Good Guy wrote:

I have just found that if you press CTRL+ALT+Arrow keys Then the
screen can be rotated.

Very interesting indeed.

That's pretty neat but makes the mouse hard to operate.

Yes. It's a good prank on somebody you don't like in the office


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Good Guy wrote:
On 16/01/2014 03:53, Bruce Hagen wrote:
"Good Guy" wrote in message
...

I have just found that if you press CTRL+ALT+Arrow keys Then the
screen can be rotated.

Very interesting indeed.





That is a feature of your video/graphic card, not Win7. It may work in
any Windows version if your video card is programmed that way. Mine is
not and that does not work.

Other options...................

Right click on the Desktop | Graphic Options | Rotation.

Right click on the Desktop | Screen Resolution | Orientation.


Bruce,

My setup is default settings only so it must be something with Intel
Graphics package. May be not on AMD chips.




I have ATI/AMD and it works.

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Alias wrote:

Good Guy wrote:
On 16/01/2014 03:53, Bruce Hagen wrote:
"Good Guy" wrote in message
...

I have just found that if you press CTRL+ALT+Arrow keys Then the
screen can be rotated.

Very interesting indeed.

That is a feature of your video/graphic card, not Win7. It may work in
any Windows version if your video card is programmed that way. Mine is
not and that does not work.

Other options...................

Right click on the Desktop | Graphic Options | Rotation.

Right click on the Desktop | Screen Resolution | Orientation.

Bruce,

My setup is default settings only so it must be something with Intel
Graphics package. May be not on AMD chips.

I have ATI/AMD and it works.

So do I, and those hotkeys do *not* work here.

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On 1/16/2014 6:00 AM, Auric__ wrote:
Alias wrote:
I have ATI/AMD and it works.

So do I, and those hotkeys do *not* work here.

Most of my machines would work this way, but I have disabled those
hotkeys right away.

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Intel Atom Z670 1.5GHz - 2GB RAM - Windows 7 Pro SP1

wrote:
On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 03:47:32 +0000, Good Guy
wrote:


I have just found that if you press CTRL+ALT+Arrow keys Then the
screen can be rotated.

Very interesting indeed.

It would be more interesting if such a maneuver
could corral all the desktop icons back into their
original positions.

Also it messes up shell windows where I had telnet running
window sizes and positions are changed - made smaller
luckily I had an icon saver to restore the desktop layout
and easy way to redraw telnet window

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"Peter Jason" wrote in message
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On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 03:47:32 +0000, Good Guy
wrote:

It would be more interesting if such a maneuver
could corral all the desktop icons back into their
original positions.




ICU Icon Configuration Utility
http://funk.eu/icu-icon-configuration-utility/

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Imperial Beach, CA

On 1/15/2014, Paul in Houston TX posted:
Good Guy wrote:

I have just found that if you press CTRL+ALT+Arrow keys Then the
screen can be rotated.

Very interesting indeed.

That's pretty neat but makes the mouse hard to operate.

It's easier if you rotate your head 90 degrees to the appropriate side
:-)

I once took a movie on my phone in portrait mode. It was intentional
for the subject. I just figured I'd rotate it in the player.

Oops. Didn't work. The scene rotated, but it didn't fit in the player
window: too tall and too narrow :-)

Solution: play the movie in landscape in the player and just rotate the
screen.

I had to use the menus in the video drivers - the key combo doesn't
work here either.

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On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 06:07:46 -0600, BillW50 wrote:

Most of my machines would work this way, but I have disabled those
hotkeys right away.

Same here, I found it to be a pain in the butt.
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On 16/01/2014 12:07, BillW50 wrote:
On 1/16/2014 6:00 AM, Auric__ wrote:
Alias wrote:
I have ATI/AMD and it works.

So do I, and those hotkeys do *not* work here.

Most of my machines would work this way, but I have disabled those
hotkeys right away.



how did you disable it? I want to enable it on my Windows 8 because it
doesn't work. Perhaps you can tell me how you did so that I can do the
opposite to enable it.

Thanks.