# Quick Change for Landscape to Portrait Mode?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-change-for-landscape-to-portrait-mode/576682>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 31, 2011, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-change-for-landscape-to-portrait-mode/576682 "2011-03-31T20:39:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![chorpler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chorpler/32/2888_2.png) [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-change-for-landscape-to-portrait-mode/576682/21 "2011-04-02T00:51:11Z")

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Just wanted to thank **Exapno Mapcase** for posting this. My dad had an auto-rotating screen for his HP desktop a few years back, and yesterday I finally got a stand from NewEgg that would allow me to pivot. But I’ve just been manually going to the Windows 7 Display control panel to change it. I have an nVidia GeForce card as well… I was using a macro system to create an actual Macro, but then I wondered if DisplayFusion Pro will let me do something like the Intel graphics driver shortcut. We shall see!

ETA: I’ve wanted a portrait-capable display mount for years because it’s so much handier to read web pages and especially PDF files on a 1920x1080 display in portrait mode, rather than landscape. And MAN! You really don’t get a sense of how big a 1080p monitor is from side to side until you rotate it! Even a simple 21.5" monitor is enormous when you portrait-ize it! SO MUCH ROOM FOR PAGES! BWA-HAHAHAHAHA… etc.

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**Author:** ![eno801](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c2a13f/32.png) [@eno801](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eno801)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-change-for-landscape-to-portrait-mode/576682/22 "2011-04-02T16:03:19Z")

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Yeah I think your going to need a program for that. My covertible tablet laptop has a program called display rotation that does that. It also ties in to a button on the front. I don’t think you can do what you need without a special program ☹

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