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Ever Hear Of This?

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When one of my co workers turned on her computer this morning everything on the display is upside down: the desktop, outlook, the intenet, all the programs ect. She rebooted it but it is still the same. The techy guys are giong to look into it. However, that is just so bizarre, I had to ask if anyone else has heard of something like happening. :blink:
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Re: Ever Hear Of This?

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well at my school we always used to joke around by flipping the screen by pressing CTRL and UP or DOWN just to piss people off, maybe thats it, its a thing you can do on windows if i'm not mistaken
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Ha that works. But you have to hold Cntrl + Alt + the Arrow Down key. :) Our tech guy didnt know that, he used the display adapters to fix it, but I let him know. Thanks.
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MetDream wrote:But you have to hold Cntrl + Alt + the Arrow Down key. :)
That's the one :)
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So Im wondering what the purpose of the function is. You can turn the display sideways with the right and left arrows too. :P
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MetDream wrote:Ha that works. But you have to hold Cntrl + Alt + the Arrow Down key. :) Our tech guy didnt know that, he used the display adapters to fix it, but I let him know. Thanks.
Do you need a certain video card in order to do that function? I tried it here and it does not work....could be a good prank to pull on someone I know :P
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I was trying as well, and it wasn't working on my computer either.
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King_Nothing wrote:
MetDream wrote: Ha that works. But you have to hold Cntrl + Alt + the Arrow Down key. :) Our tech guy didnt know that, he used the display adapters to fix it, but I let him know. Thanks.
Do you need a certain video card in order to do that function? I tried it here and it does not work....could be a good prank to pull on someone I know :P
It may be. My co-workers and I started fing around with all the computers at work. Most did it, but a few didnt. My computer at home doesnt do it. It is funny though.
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MetDream wrote:
King_Nothing wrote:
MetDream wrote: Ha that works. But you have to hold Cntrl + Alt + the Arrow Down key. :) Our tech guy didnt know that, he used the display adapters to fix it, but I let him know. Thanks.
Do you need a certain video card in order to do that function? I tried it here and it does not work....could be a good prank to pull on someone I know :P
It may be. My co-workers and I started fing around with all the computers at work. Most did it, but a few didnt. My computer at home doesnt do it. It is funny though.
Hahah cool, Ill have to try it on my freinds cpu anyway :D
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It seems it's an Intel video card thing.
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