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windows Vista literally went upside down

Asked by: blue-genie

I have a gigabyte laptop which came with Vista. I started getting some blue screen errors of late, but last night the wierdest thing happened.
I was busy working when suddenly my entire screen / desktop turned updside down. think of the screen rotating 180 degrees. has anyone ever seen this happen.

I tried rebooting, no joy. I ended up doing a restore and it basically reformated my one drive.

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2009-10-27 at 11:58:16ID24848382
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Windows Vista

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Answers

 

by: JeffPartonPosted on 2009-10-27 at 12:01:19ID: 25676095

Press CTRL + ALT + the up arrow key
Next press CTRL + ALT + the right arrow key
Then press CTRL + ALT + the left arrow key
CTRL + ALT + the down arrow key

See if these help :))))

 

by: blue-geniePosted on 2009-10-27 at 12:06:00ID: 25676140

no way.  if that was all it was and i rebooted i'm going to slash my wrists.

 

by: blue-geniePosted on 2009-10-27 at 12:07:34ID: 31646620

okay, i'm not blonde but i should be.
OMG!!! thanks :-)
don't tell anyone

 

by: poweredsPosted on 2009-10-27 at 12:10:13ID: 25676198

:-)

 

by: JeffPartonPosted on 2009-10-27 at 12:12:52ID: 25676231

LOL :)  I only found the resolution when My daughter played this "trick" on me some time back.  I was searching for a solution to this very thing UPSIDE DOWN, was my only computer at the time.  I added it to my "tricks to play on domain users"  :)))

I won't tell anyone hahaha   :-P

 

by: blue-geniePosted on 2009-10-27 at 23:22:25ID: 25680355

it's a horrible trick - i'm busy reinstalling everything :-(
fortunately i have a partitioned drive so my work data is still there.
i was busy doing something near those keys a the time so I did try pressing everything, just didn't do it right I guess, and being sick I just lost patience and did the system restore. Aaargh.

if my boss peeves me off I'm going to do it to his machine. :-) but I'll stop him before he freaks out like I did.

 

by: JeffPartonPosted on 2009-10-28 at 07:24:47ID: 25683537

lol  :)  If you do, just do like the "cookie commercial", make your boss think it is a MAJOR issue and you will STRIVE and SWEAT and then fix it (after taking some breaks of course!).  Then he can have the "OMG what an IT guru!".  Company car, etc. is in the making :)

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