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[RoyGBiv]

That's exactly what one co-worker did at my last job. He and I had an ongoing war of practical jokes, and while he knew I'd done that to his screen, he refused to acknowledge it and ask me to fix it. So, he turned the whole thing upside down. :)

Anyway, that particular manifestation of the alt-Direction Key sequence is a graphics chipset "feature" which is, I think, primarily something you find on Intel graphics cards or motherboards with integrated Intel graphics chipsets. You can turn it off permanently if you have access to that, but most people working in offices don't, which is why it's a really popular form of office humor. It'll be under Control Panel > Display > Settings > Advanced somewhere, probabally. Where it is specifically depends on your chipset.

If you have an ATI or NVidia graphics card, this "function" is probabally not enabled to work like that.

That's my understanding anyway.