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Quick Fix of the day - Win XP

I had a friend call just now. Turns out his kids had been playing with his computer and now his Windows desktop has turned on it's side. I.E. the top is to the left, bottom moved to the right.. etc. Mouse movements, everything was affected.

Well, should this ever happen to you or anyone you know, just hit Ctrl-Alt-"up-Arrow" on the keyboard and that should set things back to normal.

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Hey Robert - good tip. I had this happen to a client a couple of years ago, at which time I did not know the hot-key assignments. The GUI for this is normally located in graphics adapter advanced properties and the hot-key assignments are usually configurable from there as well.
This gives me a good idea, I think I am going to mess with someone in the morning (-;
# Posted By doug | 6/12/07 8:44 PM
Ok... I'm dying to know.. It's been long enough, What was your idea?!?!?!?
# Posted By Robert Owen | 6/22/07 8:53 AM
Hehe, I was going to rotate the desktops on some co-worker displays but it does not appear to work with multi-display configurations - we all have 2 or 3 displays. On my workstation the config options were disabled. I did not test to see if single display made a diff.
# Posted By doug | 6/22/07 7:42 PM
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