HELP - the screen orientation has changed on my laptop

[irksomerob]

Stupid but true! my cat has just walked across the keyboard of my
Fujitsu Siemens Amilo laptop (running windows xp home) and has
somehow manged to change the screen orientation from portrait to
landscape (or is it the other way around?) She appeared to be mostly
around the keys in the top right corner of the keyboard so I have
tried all kinds of combinations of these but with no effect.
Everything I have read so far says that this cannot be done so maybe
my cat can have a well paid job with Microsoft. In the mean time I
would be enormously grateful for any help anyone can suggest (apart
from a taxidermist, although I have been tempted :)

[Arthur Shapiro]

In article <421274b1$1...@alt.athenanews.com>, rob...@birmingham101-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (irksomerob) wrote:
>Stupid but true! my cat has just walked across the keyboard of my
>Fujitsu Siemens Amilo laptop (running windows xp home) and has
>somehow manged to change the screen orientation from portrait to
>landscape

Perhaps a Fuji heavy will know specific keystroke combos, if you can't find it
in the laptop's inbuilt help. But certain video chipsets have the ability to
rotate the screen in 90 degree increments. (It's wonderfully disruptive to
turn someone's screen image upside down!) As it can't hurt to look, go into
the device manager, find your video entry, and see if the properties page
offers you any tab to control image orientation. You've only wasted a few
seconds if this isn't fruitful

As an aside, this is one feature for which I can't begin to fathom a use - it
sure strikes me as a solution looking for a problem..

Art

[PlaneGuy]

I think it is a great feature. I believe it re-emerged recently with the
advent of tablet PCs, but I recall years ago, when the monitor makers had
made monitors that had an A4 sized screen, and could be rotated from
landscape to portrait orientation, for things such as word processing, where
you wanted to see a full page of text.

On my Dell, when I am showing photos that are mainly taller than they are
wide (ie Portrait orientation) their is no point in displaying them across a
wide screen, so I rotate the screen, and view them full screen.

[figglywig]

Have you tried to boot into "Last Known Good Configuration", or used
System Restore to go back to a point in time before you kitty 'helped'
you?

- Gail

[irksomerob]

Thanks everyone for all your help and suggestions. Managed to sort it
out eventually by going into control panel and clicking on the icon
for the Nvidia video card. That had a tab for properties which in
turn had a tab for screen rotation. I clicked on this which corrected
the problem. I still haven't managed to figure out how my cat managed
to achieve this by walking on some combination of keys, but as with
the kids I think we will have to restrict her use of the computer in
future. :D