Don’t have a solution, but this does remind me of an old practical joke program from back in the late 80’s early 90’s. It either ran off the floppy drive or I think you could install it and run it from the AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
It would flip your screen upside down. We all thought it was hilarious and pranked each other at work all the time. You couldn’t actually use the computer in it’s upside down state, though.
I have to confess that hy first reaction to this was “Naah, com on, that can’t happen”. Then I googled “Windows Screen Upside Down” and found all sorts of web sites discussing this phenomonon. Unfortunately, they all seemed to offer different causes (and therefor solutions) to the problem, so I’m going to suggest that you google something like this on a computer near your problem one and start wandering through the various solutions.
Good luck, and let us know how things worked out!
(OK, never mind. I see that other folks entered better solutions while I was typing the above.)
Got it, thanks. After posting here I googled upside down screen and several sites came up.
In case anybody ever has the question again the steps are:
-Right click on desktop
-Select Graphic Properties
-Select Display Settings
-Click off ‘Enable Rotation’
-Click OK TO RESET
The student, who’s a computer novice, was frustrated because the computer was clocking earlier and pushed several buttons trying to “unfreeze” it and evidently found a CTRL ALT Gr Up Cuckoo for Cocao Puffs sequence that activated the upside down rotation. I’m just thankful she didn’t activate the self destruct mode as that would have blown away that side of the building (we use way too much plastique and magnesium in our self destruct properties as I’ve been telling them for years).
What had the students in the lab laughing was me and my boss (picture Judi Dench) trying to fix it and discussing it. We really weren’t meaning to sound like a Monty Python sketch and weren’t even joking but it was a funny exchange.
Judi: Why would they have that as an option even? When would you want to have the display upside down?
Me: No idea. On a space craft maybe?
Student: Well even in space you couldn’t see it right…
Judi: Yeah, but if you were in zero gravity then you could float upside down…
Me: Of course it would make more sense to give astronauts some kind of technology like the I Phone where the display changes with the ship’s rotation.
Judi: Well, it may be too expensive to re equip a space lab.
Me: Or maybe airplanes since they’ll turn upside down.
Judi: Yeah but it would look right side up to the pilot.
Student: I wonder if they use it in that vomit comet thing where the jet goes roller coaster and simulates zero G/
All: I dunno.
Later I’ll have to check out how the Backwards Google sites look on rotated screen.
Rotating the image 90 degrees (or from “landscape” to “portrait”) is reasonable, to accommodate rotating the monitor, if you would prefer a tall display. Some monitors are designed to do this as sold by the manufacturers, and you can also buy aftermarket mounts that allow it. To support them, the driver writer probably also allows the image to be rotated either clockwise or counterclockwise, to accommodate whichever way the monitor is rotated. At that point, it probably is no extra effort to implement the “complete” set of rotations, and seems like the logical thing to do, in spite of the fact that you can’t think of any very good reasons why somebody would want it upside down.