Windows can rotate your screen without any extra software. This is especially useful if you have a desktop monitor that rotates. Many PCs have hotkeys that can rotate your screen, too, and these are easy to accidentally press.
My normal process for selecting a column of data is to click in the top cell, hit Ctrl Shift and the Down arrow to select from top cell to bottom cell. How to Rotate Your Screen on Windows 10 or 7
To rotate your screen on Windows 10, right-click your desktop, and then select the “Display Settings” command. In Windows 7, right-click the “Screen Resolution” command instead.
On Windows 10, you’ll be taken to the Settings > System > Display window. On Windows 7, you’ll end up at Control Panel > Appearance and Personalization > Display > Display Settings.
Locate the Orientation option under Resolution, click the dropdown menu under it, and then choose your preferred screen orientation—Landscape, Portrait, Landscape (flipped), or Portrait (flipped.)
This window looks different on Windows 7, but has the same Orientation options.
If you don’t see a screen orientation option in the Settings app on Windows 10 or the Control Panel on Windows 7, try updating your computer’s graphics drivers. This option may be missing if you’re using generic video drivers that aren’t appropriate for your computer’s graphics hardware.
How to Rotate Your Screen With Hotkeys
Some PCs have hotkeys that quickly rotate the screen when pressed. These are provided by the Intel graphics drivers, and are only enabled on some PCs. If your PC’s display suddenly rotated while you were pressing something on the keyboard, you probably triggered the hotkey accidentally.
To rotate your screen with hotkeys, press Ctrl+Alt+Arrow. For example, Ctrl+Alt+Up Arrow returns your screen to its normal upright rotation, Ctrl+Alt+Right Arrow rotates your screen 90 degrees, Ctrl+Alt+Down Arrow flips it upside down (180 degrees), and Ctrl+Alt+Left Arrow rotates it 270 degrees.
You can change these hotkeys—or disable them, if you want—using the Hot Key Manager tool in the Intel Graphics Control Panel on your PC. To access it, right-click your desktop, and then select “Intel Graphics Settings” or press Ctrl+Alt+F12 to open the Intel control panel. Click Options, and then head to Support > Hot Key Manager.
If you don’t see the Intel Graphics Settings tool on your PC, you probably aren’t using Intel graphics. If you don’t see the screen rotation shortcuts on the Hot Key Manager screen, they aren’t available on your PC.
How to Disable Automatic Screen Rotation on Windows 10
Convertible PCs and tablets running Windows 10 automatically rotate their screens as the device orientation changes. This works just like modern iPhones and Android smartphones. To stop your screen from rotating automatically, you can enable Rotation Lock.
To do so, open the Action Center by clicking the notification icon at the right side of your taskbar, or by pressing Windows+A.
Click or tap the “Rotation Lock” quick action tile to lock your screen in its current orientation. Click or tap the tile again to disable Rotation Lock.
The Rotation Lock option is also available at Settings > System > Display.
If you don’t see the option in either place, then your device doesn’t support automatic screen rotation because it doesn’t have built-in accelerometer hardware.
If the Rotation Lock tile appears grayed out, you must put your convertible PC into tablet mode—for example, by rotating its screen around or by detaching its screen from the keyboard. Rotation Lock isn’t available in standard laptop mode, as the screen will never automatically rotate itself in standard laptop mode.
How to Rotate Your Screen With Your Graphics Driver’s Control Panel
Options for rotating your PC’s screen may also be available in your Intel, NVIDIA, or AMD graphics drivers, depending on what graphics hardware your PC has. However, the built-in Windows option should work on all PCs. If Windows can’t change your screen rotation for some reason, you may be able to do it with your graphics driver’s control panel.
On PCs with Intel graphics, right-click the desktop and select “Intel Graphics Settings.” Select “Display” and choose a display orientation. This option wasn’t available on one of our PCs with Intel graphics, so we had to use the standard Windows Settings app instead. It will only be present here on some PCs.
On PCs with AMD graphics, this option no longer appears available in the latest versions of the Catalyst Control Center. It was previously located under “Common Display Tasks” in this application, but you must now change your screen rotation from the standard Windows Settings app or Control Panel instead.
On PCs with NVIDIA graphics, right-click the desktop and select “NVIDIA Control Panel.” Select “Rotate Display” under Display and choose your screen orientation.
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The other day my son (11 months) discovered a new hot key combination on my laptop. As I'm sure many of you are aware (I wasn't until the other day), on machines with Intel Graphics, pressing Ctrl+Alt+{arrow key} rotates the screen. After I recovered from my shock, and did a little sideways Googling to figure out how to fix it, I decided this might actually be useful. I read a lot of online documentation, and it fits better on the screen when it's rotated. Since it's a laptop, I hold the machine like a book and read it. It worked great all afternoon yesterday.
But today at work I tried to show a friend this new trick, using the same laptop, and found that the Ctrl+Alt+Up no longer works. I can rotate it to any orientation but the normal one. I'm guessing something else is intercepting this hot key, but what could be doing this?
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If you are stuck and can't get your screen to rotate to normal position by using shortcut keys, you can still go to
Control Panel | Appearance and personalization | Display | Screen Resolution . Then click on Orientation , then click on Landscape .
Your screen should be restored to normal.
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The mouse cursor has to be on the screen you want to change.
After you make a change, the cursor always defaults back to the primary screen.
Chris SChris S
It can also be disabled via group policy, which is something a lot of IT departments do as a matter of course in an environment where there are no tablet pcs.
Otherwise, you get occasional frantic calls from people who've rotated their screen 180 degrees and are now helpless, and trying to work with their monitor flipped sideways.
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Also had the problem of non-working default keys once, I think on a notebook with intel GM855 something chipset. I believe it was this tool that solved the problem form me: iRotate http://www.entechtaiwan.com/util/irotate.shtm
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Ctrl+Alt+up orients the screen to its normal orientation, it so would do nothing if the screen is already oriented the right way up. To change to any other orientation use the left, right or down arrows.
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With a windows 10 laptop I had the screen rotate by closing the lid (whith it set to do nothing when the lid is closed) and carrying it to another room.
When I opened the lid the screen had rotated.
I am familiar with the
CTR+ALT+{Arrow key} shortcuts but those didn't have any effect as I don't believe I have the right driver installed to support them.
After messing with the laptop I realized that if lift it and move it around, the screen will shrink and get a black border and then after a second will come back to full screen in whatever orientation I have the laptop.
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If I slightly shake it, turn it on its side, and then leave it alone for a second, the screen will now be in a horizontal orientation.
This must be using the accerlometer in the laptop to detect motion and then change orientation similar to what an iPad would do.
The only problem is that it is not very accurate so I have had to shake the laptop, and twist it around to try and get the orientation right.
Really bizarre but hopefully this helps someone else out there who gets stuck with an odd orientation and the short cut keys don't work.
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I had the same problem and Ctrl alt up simply would do nothing. I got tired of of using the touch pad so I re-installed my mouse. Voila ctrl alt up now worked 1st time.
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