help me fix my laptop

[Jim Ratto]

something happened with display of my Dell. Screen is 90 degrees out, meaning text right now is vertical (profile?). Been all through Help tool on this POS and find nothing. Its Windows XP  anybody have any ideas how to put it back? desktop and everything is sideways thanks, Jim

[Jim Ratto]

never mind fixed it thanks for looking

[Rennsurfer]

Glad that you fixed and that you're running XP. If you guys ever wanna get rid of me... destroy every copy of XP and replace 'em with Vista. I'll never use the 'Net again.

 

So... what was the glitch?

[John Rayburn]

Go get a Mac ,Jim and your problems will go away.

[Rick Meredith]

Glad that you fixed and that you're running XP. If you guys ever wanna get rid of me... destroy every copy of XP and replace 'em with Vista. I'll never use the 'Net again.

 

So... what was the glitch?

Usually <ctrl>+<alt>+<up arrow> will restore it for most but not all video cards.

Vista is not too bad. But Windows 7 is better, I'm running a beta version on my tablet PC and I really like it. Right after the classic, I'm gonna wipe my laptop an put the Release Candidate version on it which will be very close to the version that will sell in the fall when it's released.

[Fastbrit]

I'm with John on this. Why stick with Pieces of Cr@p when you can use a Mac? 

[Jim Ratto]

Glad that you fixed and that you're running XP. If you guys ever wanna get rid of me... destroy every copy of XP and replace 'em with Vista. I'll never use the 'Net again.

 

So... what was the glitch?

we were in a hotel room up in Crescent City, had laptop on floor in room, my son thought it would be cool to jump up and down on the keyboard.

No that's not how I fixed it.

[stealth67vw]

Glad that you fixed and that you're running XP. If you guys ever wanna get rid of me... destroy every copy of XP and replace 'em with Vista. I'll never use the 'Net again.

 

So... what was the glitch?

we were in a hotel room up in Crescent City, had laptop on floor in room, my son thought it would be cool to jump up and down on the keyboard.

No that's not how I fixed it.

Damn, you should of stopped by, Grants Pass is only an hour and a half from Crescent Shitty.

[Rick Meredith]

we were in a hotel room up in Crescent City, had laptop on floor in room, my son thought it would be cool to jump up and down on the keyboard.

No that's not how I fixed it.

It could be worse. I've got a co-worker who's daughter a little older than your son. She thinks it's fun to rip the keys out of the laptops keyboard. I've replaced the keyboard twice in less than 6 months!

[Rennsurfer]

Ouch! Jim and Rick... those stories are a bummer. But kids are kids. Gotta love 'em. When my older boy (now 18) was in grade school, he got on my computer, one morning, before school and pressed something that made everything on my desktop HUGE. I mean to the point where one icon was bleeding off of the screen.

I called my 'puter tech. friend and he walked me through it. Eskeered the crap outta me. My brand new IBM back in the '90s wasn't exactly cheap, either. HAHA!! Now, my son's editing/producing/making great movies on pc and Mac computers. We still joke about that one morning, though.

[Jim Ratto]

Ouch! Jim and Rick... those stories are a bummer. But kids are kids. Gotta love 'em. When my older boy (now 18) was in grade school, he got on my computer, one morning, before school and pressed something that made everything on my desktop HUGE. I mean to the point where one icon was bleeding off of the screen.

I called my 'puter tech. friend and he walked me through it. Eskeered the crap outta me. My brand new IBM back in the '90s wasn't exactly cheap, either. HAHA!! Now, my son's editing/producing/making great movies on pc and Mac computers. We still joke about that one morning, though.

actually I was laughing as he was doing it! 

[sheep]

I could just imagine the sick stuff you look at to make your computer do that