Hi, Micronetters, Vic Wong, and Kevin Burney
It turns out that I have a different video card than the other machines
and that there are hot keys for rotating the orientation. Explains why
mine did it and others did not.
Thanks everyone...
Charles
-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Charles E. James, P/A II IST/Student Information Systems U. C. Berkeley California 510-642-8440 ----------------------------------------- "To be wronged is nothing...unless you continue to remember it." - Confucius "If you see a problem, it's yours. If you think somebody should do something about it, remember, you're as much a somebody as anybody." - Center for Zen Buddhism "Don't talk unless you can improve the silence" -Tshirt in Vermont Concentrating completely on someone is the single best thing you can do to make that person feel significant. ----------------------------------------- Vic Wong wrote: > I have an ATI 9600 (9800?) video card that allows me to rotate the > screen with a key combo. I changed mine to ctrl-alt-P for portrait and > ctrl-alt-L for landscape, but I can't remember what the original > defaults were (my monitor also rotates physically, so I can take > advantage of the screen rotation. > > Vic > >> Good Morning, Micronetters >> >> Funny thing happened to my system yesterday I have not found an answer >> for yet. >> >> I received an excel spreadsheet from my boss yesterday with the holiday >> schedule. I opened it, because I trusted it and knew it was being sent >> at that time, viewed the data and then closed and filed it away. >> >> About five minutes later my hard drive started running all the time. I >> wasn't doing any thing in particular and I do have programs that run in >> the system tray that cause this, i.e. SpySweeper and Diskeeper, and will >> run from a few minutes to ten minutes in the background. >> >> Twenty minutes later the drive was still running and the system was kind >> of slow. As I was going to hit ctrl+alt+del to view task manager to see >> what service was running a user came up behind me to ask me a question. >> As I looked back at my computer the entire windows screen desktop and >> all flipped clock wise 90 degrees. I had to look at it sideways to read >> the screen. In addition my mouse started to float on its own all over >> the screen. >> >> Well, my first thought was maybe the excel spread sheet carried a virus >> to my machine. I ran A/V on my bosses machine and it found about 8 files >> that were infected (not the excel spreadsheet tho). I cleaned them off. >> >> I restarted my machine a few times to see if I could get the mouse back >> (oh yea, I did remember to disconnect from the network immediately when >> the screen went sideways). After the second restart I got the mouse >> back. I ran my A/V. There were no viruses. Hmmmm! >> >> I decided to experiment. When I hit ctrl+alt+del I began to wonder if I >> hit some other key other than del. After some experimentation I hit >> ctrl+alt+arrow keys and wham the screen turned upside down. I kept at it >> till I got the screen back. >> >> You might say, he figured it out and you would be right except that I >> went to several like machines (XP Pro, ZA, etc basically set up the same >> as mine) and tried hitting the ctrl+alt+arrow keys with no effect on >> them at all. >> >> Anyone have any idea's what is going on with my machine. I seem to be >> the only one who can use these keys to change the orientation of my >> screen. I tried google'ing and found that those key combinations work in >> some program environments but nothing came up about them in a Windows >> O/S, i.e. XP Pro. What did I miss on this? I found no reference to these >> shortcut key combination in my Windows books. >> >> Respectfully, >> >> Charles >> >> -- >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> Charles E. James, P/A II >> IST/Student Information Systems >> U. C. Berkeley California >> 510-642-8440 >> >> ----------------------------------------- >> "To be wronged is nothing...unless >> you continue to remember it." - Confucius >> >> "If you see a problem, it's yours. >> If you think somebody should do something about it, >> remember, you're as much a somebody as anybody." - Center for Zen >> Buddhism >> >> "Don't talk unless you can improve the silence" -Tshirt in Vermont >> >> Concentrating completely on someone is the single >> best thing you can do to make that person feel >> significant. >> ----------------------------------------- >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> The following was automatically added to this message by the list >> server: >> >> For information about Micronet, including subscribing to >> or unsubscribing from its mailing list and finding out >> about upcoming meetings, please visit the Micronet Web site: >> <http://micronet.berkeley.edu/>. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The following was automatically added to this message by the list server: For information about Micronet, including subscribing to or unsubscribing from its mailing list and finding out about upcoming meetings, please visit the Micronet Web site: <http://micronet.berkeley.edu/>.Received on Fri Dec 9 08:58:50 2005
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