Resolved Windows 7 screen rotation

Last night, was working with my wife to print, fold, and place in envelopes flyers for her upcoming class reunion. I was printing and folding the flyers, on top of the laptop keyboard, when suddenly the entire screen rotated, except for the background display, all the icons and the tool bar that I keep at the bottom of the screen. I tried rebooting, and it came back the same way, but for some unknown reason, the display all of a sudden repaired itself. Any idea what happened? I was doing the folding on the right side of the keyboard when this happened, so was over the area of the Enter key and to the right of it over the number pad. I don't know if this is a hidden feature, as I did a search using help, but can see it might be a desired feature if multiple screens were being used.

 

Ctrl/Alt at the same time and hold them down then use the arrow keys to Rotate the screen. Been like that since at least back in the Win 95 or 98 days. Good trick to play on somebody. Desktop or Laptop it doesn't matter.

Evan beat me to it. Same thing though.

 

Thank you. Never had a need for this function, but now have one more bit of info logged into my brain. I am using a Dell lap top.

 

FWIW, Ctrl+Alt+arrow keys doesn't work on either my desktop, running 64-bit Win7 Pro SP1, or my IBM T43 laptop, running 32-bit Win7 HP SP1 (not that I need the capability. )

 

I have two HP Notebooks and it works on both.

 

Hi Evan,

AMD ATI video card in the desktop, but the laptop has an Intel graphics controller and, as I said, the Ctrl+Alt+arrow keys commands don't work on either computer. Not to worry, though, as I've never needed the capability, nor do I ever expect to.