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Alt+Ctrl+ L or R arrow key

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So I've discovered that pressing this combo causes my screen to flip sideways. However, other people I've talked to said it doesn't happen to them. Has anyone here noticed this at all? I know my pc is a '04 Dell desktop running XP, but I couldn't get any more detailed. I'm not asking anyone to try it out, I just want to know if they know anything.

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Guest Princess Leena

Alt + arrow keys does back/forward.

 

Maybe you have some add-on doing that.

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Guest Paulster

It works on my machine, but I have a monitor that can physically be rotated. That's probably the difference between all the tests here.

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Guest Paulster
This should also work on Windows 2000 (if you're using that for whatever reason).

 

Ewwwwww... unclean! UNCLEAN!

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I have Win2K at work, and my screen doesn't do that.

 

Ditto, but it works on mine. I think it depends whether or not your administrator has enabled the ability to do so on your machine. A few of the people here can't do it, but I can since I have "power user" rights. o.O

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It works on mine. Pressing it with up or down causes it to go to upside down or back to normal. That's creepy, and is what i should do now in computer labs

 

My favourite used to be taking a screenshot of the desktop, hiding and locking the actual taskbar and then setting the screenshot as the wallpaper. People get so frustrated, so easily, with computers.

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I have Win2K at work, and my screen doesn't do that.

 

Ditto, but it works on mine. I think it depends whether or not your administrator has enabled the ability to do so on your machine. A few of the people here can't do it, but I can since I have "power user" rights. o.O

That's probably it. The admins have disabled just about everything; we can't do shit without a call to the helpdesk.

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We can do to the computers at work as well. They are all Dell's w/ Windows 2000.....it's always a good excuse not to do work.

 

"Hey, why aren't you working"

"My screen is all fucked up"

"What do you mean?"

*shows them a sideways screen

"What the fuck?!?!?!?"

*supervisor walks away puzzled and comes back 30 minutes later tell us the miracle cure on how to fix it.

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I actually did this once to my boss' computer by accident. She wanted a key macro set up to lock her station without having to CTRL+ALT+DEL and then clock Lock. So I set it up as CTRL+ALT+RIGHT ARROW. Needless to say, the original macro took prescedence and flipped her screen. It was pretty funny to see the reaction.

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