If you have an Intel graphics adapter, ctrl-alt-arrow keys can by default rotate the screen to various orientations. This conflicts with speech synthesizer setting hotkeys in Window-Eyes, so that's why I know about it. -----Original Message----- >From: tribble <lauraeaves@xxxxxxxxx> >Sent: Nov 25, 2008 3:07 PM >To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: rotated screen? > >Hi all -- >Perhaps someone here can answer a very strange event on my XP Pro laptop. >Last week I was copying and pasting some paragraphs from websites to a file, >and after some time a sighte family member came in and said my screen was >rotated 90 degrees. >I have no idea how this could have happened or how to undo it, and neither >does my family member. >Jaws, oddly enough, appears to be reading the screen fine, apparently >scanning up and down instead of horizontally. But some applications are >failing to work properly. >I have tried everything to get my old screen back, including rebooting. >One of the things I did that may have cause this situation was to copy a >picture from a webpage and have a family member rotate it. But I have done >this before without a problem. > >Does anyone have any idea how I can rotate the screen back to its original >position? >TIA >--le > > >__________ >View the list's information and change your settings at >//www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind > __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind