Re: rotated screen?

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
>
>
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