gHacks technology news » rotate laptop http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:37:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Rotate Laptop Monitor Screen http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/11/rotate-laptop-monitor-screen/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/11/rotate-laptop-monitor-screen/#comments Mon, 11 May 2009 11:05:28 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/11/rotate-laptop-monitor-screen/ rotate laptop monitor screenSome laptop monitor screens are not suited for reading large texts on them due to the amount of scrolling involved to read them. While the width of the screen is usually appropriate to prevent horizontal scrolling the height of the laptop screen results in lots of vertical scrolling. A small utility to rotate the laptop monitor screen is EEE Rotate. It has been designed for Asus EEE PCs but can actually be used with other laptops and even desktop computers as well. The program is portable and places a icon into the system tray upon execution.

It will add four keyboard shortcuts to the computer system that can be used to rotate the monitor screen. The shortcuts begin with [Ctrl ALT] and require one of the arrow keys to be pressed as well. [Ctrl Alt Up Arrow] returns the screen to the initial position while [Ctrl Alt Right Arrow] rotates it by 270 degrees. [Ctrl Alt Down Arrow] rotates it 180 degrees and [Ctrl Alt Left] by 90 degrees.

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One interesting additional feature is that the software will also rotate the input device to match the screen rotation. The portable software EEE Rotate worked fine on a Windows XP SP3 test system but the executable had to be extracted (can be done with 7-zip for example) as the setup would throw an error message otherwise.

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