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Shortcut Key To Flip The Screen In the Windows TO 180 Degree..

March 27, 2008 by Gautam

This ones a cool one to play pranks on your friends, especially if your friends do not know how to get it back to the normal state ๐Ÿ˜‰

The shortcut is

for normal windows : Ctrl + Alt + <Up arrow>
and for 180 deg it is : Ctrl + Alt + <Down arrow>

How ever you should know that these are default shortcuts for Intel Extreme Graphics Controller, and you can change them. To check / change or disable these keys go to control panel–>Intel Extreme Graphics–>Hot Keys.

Have fun :).

Update:

Some users have written to me saying the shortcuts do not work. This happens when you have not enabled rotation feature in Display Settings under Intel Graphics Media Accelerator media. You need to enable rotation in order to be able to Rotate / Flip your windows screen upside down / 90 / 180 / 270 degrees.

Filed Under: Computer Tips And Tricks, Microsoft Windows Tips And Tricks Tagged With: computers, Intel, tips, tricks, windows

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  1. Marlon says

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  2. sanjay adhitya .s says

    July 14, 2017 at 4:28 pm

    thank you so much

  3. Bob says

    November 28, 2012 at 6:28 pm

    @chloe
    I can provide you with a very functional purpose for this feature >
    Case : I was doing a remote control on somebody’s PC to help him with an issue. After disconnecting in a few minutes the user calls telling me his display got rotated when pushing “Disconnect”. Tried all the combinations on Earth, none worked. Still looking for a keyboard combination that works on a desktop running Win7 independent of video spec.

  4. Abhinav says

    June 4, 2012 at 6:41 am

    Thanks ALOT. Very useful information.
    Resolved my issue.

  5. chart3 says

    April 24, 2012 at 8:38 pm

    I’ve been a heavy computer user and professional IT network administrator over the past 25 years. Today was the first time I ever accidently hit the keys on my laptop to that caused my display to rotate 90 degrees. It’s kind of bad business practice to have that feature enabled by default.

  6. chloe says

    April 9, 2012 at 9:50 am

    **Was cleaning and hit keys by accident. obv.

  7. chloe says

    April 9, 2012 at 9:50 am

    Thanks, was cleaning around the room and ended up with a very strained neck trying to find a solution. Hah. May I ask what functional purpose this serves- apart from pranking people that is.

  8. Atif says

    January 29, 2012 at 7:50 pm

    I was worried from past two hours and just fixed my desktop.. thanks for your help

  9. AP says

    September 15, 2011 at 3:17 pm

    yes its a good pranks . It wasn’t working on my xp but Done what ever you mentioned and it is working now. Do you think it will work on windows 7 too.

  10. Manzoor Ahmed Khan says

    June 4, 2011 at 3:54 pm

    Solved Thank You So Much

  11. Manzoor Ahmed Khan says

    June 4, 2011 at 3:53 pm

    Solved Tank you so mouch

  12. babynocry says

    June 2, 2011 at 7:54 pm

    Loser :Everyone shouldnโ€™t prank friends. That is very mean of you.

    wah!

  13. mightb.me says

    May 31, 2011 at 7:02 am

    had to get into the vid controller interface on my HP laptop to enable the hotkeys. (Windows 7)

  14. KASHphotographer says

    March 29, 2011 at 2:09 pm

    Thanks alot ๐Ÿ™‚ that was really gud trick for me god bless you !!!

  15. patti russell says

    March 1, 2011 at 2:11 am

    Thank goodness for your tip. My baby hit the keyboard and turned the screen round and i was going mad trying to fix it! thanks

  16. Gautam says

    February 16, 2011 at 7:48 am

    @Jono – by mistake I guess, unless he/she was a computer genius in his previous birth ๐Ÿ™‚

  17. jono says

    February 16, 2011 at 5:03 am

    thank you for stopping me smashing my laptop! How does a toddler do that anyway?

  18. New999 says

    November 11, 2010 at 4:26 pm

    I cant flip my computer.
    Im using a Windows Vista Ultimate by the way.

  19. chauhan says

    October 25, 2010 at 3:46 pm

    press window key nd control key wid arrow key

  20. Phill says

    August 18, 2010 at 11:33 am

    I love doing this to work mates computers while they are AFK ๐Ÿ™‚

  21. nothingz says

    June 22, 2010 at 9:15 am

    that from your VGA driver not from your windows, just enable the rotation in your Display Properties

    and for linux user you should enable the compiz to utilize your desktop

  22. Gautam says

    February 10, 2010 at 7:24 pm

    @Bojangles – Which version of Windows are you using ?

  23. bojangles says

    February 10, 2010 at 6:44 pm

    i keep trying to mess with my friends by doing that at school but it wont work

  24. Neha says

    January 8, 2010 at 3:27 pm

    HI, I am using suse linux enterprise edition and suddenly i dont how but screen get rotate at 90 degree. please help me out.

  25. Ian says

    December 26, 2009 at 5:39 am

    THANK YOU I PRESSED THE WRONG THING AND IT FLIPED AND I DIDNT KONW HOW TO GET IT BACK THANK YOU

  26. Lewis says

    December 16, 2009 at 6:07 am

    Canadian kid, exactly same happened to me… cept was my niece not kid lol

  27. bob says

    November 26, 2009 at 7:42 pm

    Hi any help, I found out how to do this the other day but its not working on my other computer (the 1 im typing this with

  28. CANADIAN KID says

    October 10, 2009 at 5:48 am

    Thanks, my 4 year old hit a few buttons and BOOM…what a mess…thanks to this posting …

  29. Loser says

    October 6, 2009 at 12:12 am

    Everyone shouldn’t prank friends. That is very mean of you.

  30. Gautam says

    September 8, 2009 at 2:17 am

    @Jamie – I know it was scary the first time … but then once I figured out, trust me I’ve scared the hell out of most of my friends n family ๐Ÿ˜‰

  31. Jamie says

    September 7, 2009 at 10:01 pm

    Thank you for putting this out there. I bet you didn’t know you can do it to yourself by accident! Totally blew my mind and couldn’t find the fix while looking in help “sideways”.

  32. Gautam H N says

    November 28, 2008 at 11:05 pm

    @Jamie – I totally agree ๐Ÿ˜‰

  33. Jamie says

    November 28, 2008 at 11:02 pm

    This trick is uber cuil ๐Ÿ™‚ … I’m having so much fun pranking my frieds ๐Ÿ™‚

  34. Sanjit says

    April 1, 2008 at 10:33 pm

    There’s a same set of functions under Nvidia too.

    They come under Nvidia control panel called NView.

    It has better functions like multiple desktops, window transparency, autoresize etc.

    I have it on my HP DV6000TX running Nvidia GeForceGO 7400 on XP.
    Although this thing was missing on Vista. [:)]

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