I'm having an acute problem concerning my monitor. The display has turned upside down and I don't know how to set it the right way. Can you please help me coz it's very disturbing!
Hi,
No need to worry, this is a minor disturbance. All you have to do is as follows:
Press and hold "ctrl" + "alt" buttons and at the same time press the up arrow (navigation keys).
The screen display will rotate. Repeat the step until the correct position is obtained.
Your navigation keys don't work if Num Lock key hase been activated before and you are using navigation keys in the numeric field of the keyboard. So unlock numeric field of the keyboard and try again with pressing Alt+Ctrl + a navigation key
Thank you ever so much - my little girl has been playing with m notebook and it was ever so frustrating trying to work back to front and upside down! I think a little children's laptop is on top of the Christmas list!
thank you this was driving me nuts and was very hard just getting to ask. i pluged in an old phone to get contacts off of it and boom screen freaked out. wont do that again. phone is now in the trash. thanks again.....phil from vermont
Yes, thank you. That fixed the problem, which was caused by an object falling on the external monitor of my laptop. When I tried your solution on my external keyboard it did not work, but worked immediately when I tried it on the laptop keyboard....must be some problem with my external keyboard - may be caused by the object falling on it. Anyway, all is right with the world once more, and I won't have to stand on my head or upend the monitor to use the computer!
thanks for the advice it worked like a charm, in my case I simply needed to hold ctl and alt at the same time clicked the up arrow and the desktop flipped right side up
Thanks, my boy was playing a joke and went out for awhile. I had to google it and found this from you, was even able to fix it reading this upside down. lol......thanks so much!!!!!!!!
My friend's computer had the display turned upside down by her 2 year old son. Your suggestion of ctl+Alt+arrows worked. Thanks so much, I could not find the answer in the Dell troubleshoot guide!!!
This just happened to me and I used a combination of these answers to solve it. Just right click on the desktop and then select "Graphic Options." One of your choices with Vista will be "Hot Keys." Just Disable it and you'll be fine. Who wants this as an option anyway?!
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Thanks again.