GBM How To: Keyboard Shortcut to Quickly Change Screen Rotation

Posted by | 11/09/2008 | 24 Comments

Looking for a keyboard short-cut to quickly change screen rotation? Ctrl-Alt and any of the four arrow keys will set you free:

  • Ctrl+Alt+Arrow Up will rotate your screen up
  • Ctrl+Alt+Arrow Down will rotate your screen down
  • Ctrl+Alt+Arrow Right will rotate your screen right
  • Ctrl+Alt+Arrow Left will rotate your screen left

I’ve verified this to work in Windows Vista and Windows XP, whether a tablet pc or regular notebook. With a regular notebook there maybe some video card constraints. Update: HP’s tx series doesn’t seem to support this keyboard shortcut.

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  • Rob

    My mother’s toshiba laptop has ATI graphics and the keyboard shortcuts work on it….

  • Ben

    I have an x61t with vista and the “intel common user interface” (hkcmd, igfxtray, and igfxpers) disabled from starting up. These shortcuts don’t work for me.

  • 64pilot

    Works on a Hp TC4400. Dont know when this will be useful but now I know how it works. Sure Ill find somthing. Thanks.

  • J Smith

    This works on a ThinkPad X41.

    I feel rather stupid not having before known about these shortcut keys. Thank you for pointing them out.

  • Ycery

    I’m using iRotate with my HP tx2051, also works on a t60. Works like a charm and it’s free.

    http://www.entechtaiwan.com/util/irotate.shtm

    Ycery.

  • loyukfai

    It should be the Intel drivers…

    http://img139.imageshack.us/my.php?image=newpicturejv5.png

    Speaking of this, under Vista one may open applications on the Quick Launch bar by using “Windows key + 1/2/3/4/5…” Whereas the number represents the position of the shortcut in the bar.

  • Dave P

    This doesn’t work on the OQO 02 either. Ctl-Alt-left/right arrow seems to be mapped to speaker volume and up/down arrow has no apparent effect.

  • Andrew

    Does not seem to be working on my Latitude XT

  • Jan

    I think that it’s handled mostly by intel graphic cards software, therefore You musn’t untick its software from auto start in msconfig.
    I think that is this one “intel(R) common user interface” (it’s 3x there) or perhaps GzSnd (i think I memeber that one I unticked it and shortcut stopped working)

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