Heeeeeeeeeeeelllllpppppppppp!! Monitor displays upside down.

[morningglory]

About 15 minutes before quitting time, I was practising keystrokes that can be used instead of the mouse to select text. I don't know what I did, but my screen rotated 180 degrees. All upside down. What in the hell can I do about it tomorrow?

[RoyGBiv]

1. Heh ...

I do this to co-workers.

CTL-ALT-<UP ARROW> will fix it.

CTL-ALT-<DOWN ARROW> got you there.

[morningglory]

2. Thank you, sweetie pie!!

[Duer 157099]

3. How come my screen doesn't rotate like that?

Is it the monitor, the driver, that controls that?

I'm glad that never happened to me - although if it did, I would just turn my screen upside down.

[RoyGBiv]

4. Hehehe ...

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.

[Duer 157099]

5. Neato!

I found how to do it, but not by keys, but using the Nvidia control panel thingy (which I usually don't have running) but it's nice to know I can convert to portrait if I want to!

Thanks! :thumbsup:

[Deja Q]

6. Practical jokes rock...

There's a great one with the desktop and making duplicated 'ghosts' out of the icons and making it impossible for the poor hapless individual to click on "My computer" or any other of the icons without hunting for some time... :evilgrin:

[sam sarrha]

7. in about 2 weeks you wont even notice it...

:rofl:

i had a joke program that did that..

another joke program would Have an official looking Microsoft page, the "LOCAL DISK {C:}"
page, The one you get at My Computer when you right click Local dish C, with all the yellow folders.

then a grey box appears that says, DO YOU WANT TO DELETE DISK C with an official 'yes and no'
AND ALL ITS CONTENTS?
under that, ..i'm tying to figure out where it came from when the yes button depresses, all the folders start disappearing like the back space key is being held down.. till everything is gone and a BLACK SCREEN appears

my heart was really pounding when some white letters come up... aren't you glad that was just a joke?

they had ants that crawled around the screen.. press a key and the screen cracked.. pretty strange