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Saturday October 28, 2006

My son's Windows "magic"!

This morning my son (3 year old) was watching some video on my PC. He kept pressing keyword - suddenly the screen started looking like this...

I couldn't find how he managed to change (some) setting. Re-starting Windows didn't help. Kannan Balasubramanian helped me. Thanks Kannan! (Sustaining saves the day again!).

Steps to fix "tilted Windows":

Right click on the Desktop
Choose the "Graphics Options" menu
Choose the "Graphics Properties..." submenu
In the dialog box, choose the "Rotation" tab
In the "Rotation Views", choose "Normal" (my son somehow managed to change this as "180 Degree"!)

For some reason, while Kannan was able to make it "Normal" and immediately view the change, I had to re-boot! Anyway, now it is "Normal"

( Oct 28 2006, 03:46:44 PM IST ) Permalink Comments [3]

Comments:

quit easy to reproduce: just press crtl+alt+down-key.

Posted by ger on October 28, 2006 at 06:59 PM IST #

Hi ger: Thanks for that tip. Ctrl-alt-down key works. And ctrl-alt-up arrow reverts to normal.

Posted by A. Sundararajan on October 29, 2006 at 06:50 PM IST #

I wonder what uses this can have... Maybe it's the settings for bats? Or maybe it's the other way round: maybe bats hang upside down because they didn't manage to set the display right back again ;-)

Posted by daniel on November 02, 2006 at 06:01 PM IST #

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