I was dusting - Yes, I was cleaning - and I was wiping the keyboard. Once. Twice. Three times. Oh-Oh. Sometime during the third dust the screen went black. Oh-Oh. A couple of seconds passed and finally the picture returnsed. Only, it didn't look like it usually does. It looked like this:
I had no idea which key combinations I pressed or, more accurately the OATESCLEAN dusting cloth pressed, so I didn't know where to start to try and get it back to how it was. Here's a Tip: Trying to do a 'Help' search from the Start Menu and a Google Search, all at 90 degrees, is somewhat fun... and somewhat useless.
Well, I thought, I'll just have to lay the screen on it's side and figure it out later. It was then that I realised that the screen actually swivels 90 degrees! It's actually designed to do that! Whoo Hoo! So, around it went until it looked a lot like this:
And you know what? I kind of like it. It works for me - especially since I tend to have multiple windows open. They fit neatly, one on top of the other.
We may have actually played around with it when we bought the computer so I think in the back of my mind I knew it did have this function. But having used it for a few days, I have to say I don't want be going back just yet.
Since the 'boo-boo' I have actually figured out how to change it back to 'landscape' mode but I still have no idea how I managed to change it with the keyboard. Freakishly comes to mind...
3 comments:
On my computer if you go into control panel, Intel(R) Extreme Graphics...there is the rotation buttons but then there are key combinations next to them. I think you may have pressed them.
ctrl+alt+left arrow key should do it.
Thanks Laura! Nice researching.
If you press ctrl+alt+(down arrow) the display turns upside down :) I think if that had happened I would have really panicked ;)
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