It is customary to perceive the monitor screen in the orientation in which it is. But sometimes it becomes necessary to change the screen orientation, or, simply put, to flip the image on a laptop or computer. Why might this be necessary?
Due to some software glitch, the screen has turned upside down and the image is upside down or turned on its side. It needs to be corrected and brought back. Sometimes you need to flip the monitor itself, but leave the image in its normal orientation relative to the viewer.
So, how to flip the screen on a monitor on a computer or laptop? Extremely simple. Depending on the device (whether we are talking about a laptop or a simple computer) and the operating system installed on it, you need to do a simple set of manipulations. They will take no more than 10 seconds! But in order, because these 10 seconds also need to be done correctly...
To change the screen orientation on a computer (desktop, laptop) with these operating systems, you need to close all open windows and right-click on an empty space on the desktop. A context menu will appear, in which, among other items, there will be a “Screen resolution” item. And you should click on it. A settings window will open, in which you should look for a drop-down list labeled “Orientation”. Then everything is simple.
There are four positions in the drop-down list: landscape, landscape mirror, portrait, portrait mirror. Just select one of them, and the problem on the monitor is solved. To return to the previous state, you must select a turn in the opposite direction. You see - 10 seconds, no more, and the image is what you need.
Windows XP
In the system tray, also called the notification area, there is an icon for the video card. You can right-click on it, select “Rotation Options”, and then figure out how and where to rotate the screen.
Hotkeys
In the Windows XP operating system, the hotkey combination is usually enabled by default. In older Windows operating systems, the ability to use them is often disabled in the video card driver settings. These settings can be changed if necessary. It’s convenient with them, it’s no longer 10 seconds, but one.
- Pressing the combination Ctrl+Alt+up arrow will return the screen to its normal position if it suddenly rotates 180 degrees.
- The combination Ctrl+Alt+down arrow - rotate the screen 180 degrees down.
- The key set Ctrl+Alt+left arrow will rotate 90 degrees counterclockwise.
- A set of keys: Ctrl+Alt+right arrow - and the screen rotates 90 degrees clockwise.
Rotations of 90 degrees are sometimes preferable or simply more necessary than 180, since 90° is a more “fine” setting that can be used for special cases.
Video cards
Each video card model has its own settings (control panel), which will definitely contain an item regarding screen orientation. If we are talking about an NVIDIA graphics adapter, you need to open its control panel by right-clicking on the icon in the system tray. In the control panel there is a sub-item “Rotate display”. Then it’s not difficult to choose. If there is no icon in the system tray, then the standard operating system driver is used. This driver should be updated to the native one for the video card, then the icon will appear. Similar options for changing screen orientation exist for all types of video cards.
Often, Windows 10 users and laptop owners are faced with the problem of incorrect display of screen settings when flipped 90 degrees. This is due to the fact that the user could accidentally press a key combination or enable auto-rotate.
Ways to rotate the screen in Windows 10 by 90 degrees
Standard screen rotation on a laptop is performed using the key combination “Ctrl+Alt+arrows”.
If the screen cannot be turned over in the standard way, you should use the following recommendations.
Click “Start”, “Settings”, select the “System” section.
In the left menu, select “Screen”. Here we set the landscape orientation.
Depending on what graphics card you have installed, you should see a graphics control icon on your taskbar. If it is NVidia, follow these steps.
- Click "Display". A new section will open. In the left menu, go to the “Display”, “Rotate display” branch. We select landscape screen orientation or use the buttons on the side to try to rotate the display 90 degrees.
For AMD Radeon the settings are as follows:
- Right-click on the desktop and select “AMD Radeon”.
- The display manager will open, set the standard landscape orientation.
For Intel, you can enable correct screen display in the following way:
- Right-click on the desktop and select “Graphics Options.”
- The "Intel Graphics Control Panel" will open. Select “Settings”.
- Set the rotation to 90 degrees.
If your Windows 10 laptop screen flips frequently, you can turn off auto-rotate. To do this, just right-click on the desktop, select “Graphics Options” or “Graphics Settings”, select “Hot Keys” and click “Disable”.
Now you won't be able to flip the screen by accidentally pressing key combinations.
Question from a user
Hello.
Tell me what can be done: on my laptop the screen turned 180 degrees and everything became upside down. The picture itself seems to be clear, without distortion, the laptop turns on and otherwise works as usual. Is it possible to rotate the screen without going to the service center?
Sincerely, Marina.
Good day!
A fairly popular problem that occurs equally often on both laptops and PCs. Most likely, you simply accidentally changed the video driver settings, or pressed a certain key combination. In this article I will give several ways to get everything back...
Note: in some cases, flipping the screen is very useful! Do not think that software developers are deliberately plotting intrigues for you. For example, if you are looking at a photo or video taken upside down, you click a couple of buttons and the screen rotates. Comfortable? Comfortable!
Ways to flip the screen
Method number 1: using hot keys
Nowadays, many laptops have special keyboard shortcuts to rotate the screen. (they are called hot) . They allow you to change the orientation of the image on the screen in a matter of seconds, for example, make it portrait or landscape. As I said above, this function is quite convenient in some cases.
Keyboard shortcuts to rotate the image on the monitor:
- Ctrl+Alt+↓ (down arrow. By the way, there is no need to press pluses!)- turning the screen 180 degrees (i.e. upside down);
- Ctrl+Alt+← - rotate 90 degrees to the left;
- Ctrl+Alt+→ - rotate 90 degrees to the right;
- Ctrl+Alt+ - return images to normal position.
Note: these keys will not work for everyone; for example, they may be disabled by default in the driver settings. Or the manufacturer didn't include them at all...
Method number 2: through the video driver settings
To begin with, I want to say that you must have video drivers installed (as well as a control center for them. By the way, Windows often installs drivers when installing the system, but they will be without a control center!).
If the driver for your video card is installed, you just need to look in the tray (next to the clock): there should be a corresponding icon there (example below)
Or right-click anywhere on the desktop: the context menu should contain a link to the control panel (example below).
In Intel settings you need to open the "Display" section. In the "Rotation" subsection you can select a value of 90-180-270 degrees (see screenshot below).
In addition, in this section you can set the refresh rate, set resolution, scaling, and other settings.
Note: Please note that after changing the resolution or rotating the image, a warning will appear on your screen asking you to confirm the changes. If suddenly the picture on your monitor has completely deteriorated and you can’t see anything, then just wait 15 seconds, the changed parameters will be reset and return to their original values.
In the NVIDIA Control Panel, open the Display tab (on the left in the menu), then open the Display Rotation link. There you can choose the orientation:
- landscape (default);
- book;
- landscape (folded);
- book (folded).
When choosing between these modes, set the option as convenient for viewing the image on the monitor.
In AMD Catalyst Center everything is also quite obvious: open in the menu on the left "General display tasks/Rotate desktop" , select the mode from the list: landscape or portrait (there are also mirror options for them).
AMD Catalyst Center // select display orientation: portrait, landscape
Note: The settings menu may vary greatly depending on the video driver version.
Method number 3: through Windows settings
Windows 7
Right-click anywhere on the desktop and select from the pop-up context menu "Screen resolution"(as in the screenshot below).
Important! When you change the resolution or orientation, Windows will wait for you to confirm the changed settings. So, if something goes wrong, just wait 15 seconds. and don't press any buttons...
Windows 8, 10
In principle, changing the orientation of the image occurs in the same way as on Windows 7. When you right-click on the desktop, a menu will appear - you need to select "Display Options".
Why may the picture on the monitor not rotate?
Sometimes you press buttons, change settings, but nothing happens - the picture on the monitor does not change at all... This can happen for the following reasons:
1) Changing the orientation of the wrong monitor. This is relevant if you have several monitors connected to your computer (or were previously connected). When setting up, pay attention to which monitor you are changing the orientation to!
3) I also recommend checking your computer for viruses.. Some types of malicious programs play games: they change the resolution, make the mouse cursor jump, rotate the image, etc. Popular antiviruses of this year 👉.
4) And lastly, try it boot your Windows OS into safe mode. Often it is in this mode that it is possible to correct certain errors. In addition, if the problem is related to video drivers, then the image on the screen should begin to be displayed in standard mode.
How to enter safe mode in Windows 7/8/10 -
I hope the question is settled?!
Very often, many laptop and netbook users encounter a problem when the image on the monitor screen is turned upside down by 90 or 180 degrees. At the same time, due to confusion, people begin to look for an answer to the question of how to turn the screen on a laptop to its initial state. As a rule, the image on the screen turns upside down, not due to a breakdown of the computer’s video card, as many users believe, but due to inaccurate pressing of hot keys on the keyboard. Perhaps a cat was walking on it, a child was playing and tapped on the keyboard, or the keyboard is faulty and the keys are triggering spontaneously. In general, the solution to the problem is quite simple and you and I will need to perform some actions to return the monitor image to its original form.
How to flip the screen on a laptop using system hotkeys?
In order to flip the image on the monitor, there are special hot keys. Let's look at what combinations you need to press.
As a rule, to solve the problem of how to flip the screen on a laptop, pressing a keyboard shortcut helps Ctrl+Alt+Space Up Arrow, if this action does not return the screen orientation to the desired state, then we try all combinations.
Note! In order to completely disable hot keys, when pressed, the screen will turn over, you need to right-click on the desktop, select “Graphics Options” - “Hot Keys” and set the operation status to “Disable”
Disable screen rotation in Intel Graphics settings.
Sometimes it happens that the method described above does not allow you to answer the question of how to flip the screen on a laptop, since the key combinations differ from the system ones. In this case, most likely, the Intel graphics settings contain other hotkey combinations to control the video adapter settings. Therefore, we will turn them off now, so as not to fall into the trap of an upside-down screen in the future. To disable the settings, perform the following steps:
Advice! In order not to disable this function, you can set the correct key combinations that will be used to rotate the screen. To do this, enter the required button names in the appropriate fields, as indicated in the previous paragraph.
As you can see, all the settings in this paragraph come down to correctly setting up the hotkey combinations that are set in the Intel Graphics Control Panel or disabling this function.
Flip your monitor screen using Windows settings.
In the system settings of the Windows operating system, there is also a screen rotation function, so let's use these settings and try to solve our problem. In order to figure out how to flip the screen on a laptop using Windows. You and I need to do the following:
If the above methods do not help.
Sometimes there are cases when the above methods do not help or the user cannot understand how to perform them correctly, then you can try using the Windows System Restore function. Thus, we can roll back to those operating system settings when the monitor screen was not upside down.
In order to perform a system restore, you need to open “Start” - “Control Panel” - “Recovery” - “Run System Restore”. 
After this, select the date to which you want to roll back the settings and start the recovery process. Once the system is restored, the screen position should return to the correct position.
The most extreme option, which will 100% solve the problem of how to flip the screen on a laptop, is to reinstall the operating system. But this is the very last option if others do not help.
Let's summarize.
As you can see, if you are faced with the problem of how to flip the screen on a laptop, then in many cases you can solve it yourself without resorting to the help of specialists. In most cases, the problem lies in incorrectly pressed hotkeys. But if the problem lies deeper, then reinstalling the operating system will help.
On a computer, you can easily rotate the screen 90, 180 or 270 degrees running Windows 10. There are often situations when the screen on a laptop is turned over and does not turn back on its own. The whole reason is that the screen rotation is carried out at the software level without using the accelerometer.
This article will tell you how to flip the screen on a computer or laptop in Windows 10. Even when trying to open the task manager, laptop users miss and manage to rotate the screen. It’s really very easy to return everything back, just use one of the solutions proposed below.
The display rotation function allows you to change the desktop orientation. This is useful if the physical display is rotated and you want to adjust the desktop orientation to match its new position.
If the screen on your laptop is upside down, you will need to go to the settings yourself and select a different orientation to fix it. By default, the following display orientations are available in the operating system:
- landscape- the default value corresponds to 0 degrees;
- book- portrait orientation, corresponds to 90 degrees;
- landscape (upside down)- equals the value of 180 degrees;
- book (inverted)- the same as turning it 270 degrees.
And also, depending on the graphics card, you can rotate the screen using the driver program. If it is possible to decide on the method of flipping the screen.
Options
Go to section Settings > System > Display. In point Display orientation select value Landscape(normal screen position) or Book(rotate the screen 90 degrees).
In the desktop context menu, select NVIDIA Control Panel. Now go to location Display > Rotate the display. Select the display whose settings you want to change, and then select the orientation you want.
Radeon Settings
Modern Radeon graphics card drivers do not have the ability to rotate the screen. In case of using which you need to use the method proposed above using updated system parameters. Indeed, there is in fact no need to duplicate the screen flip functionality.
Previous versions of the driver used a component from AMD Catalyst Software. It had such an opportunity, now it can also be found on old gaming laptops. There you just need to go to Common display tasks > Rotate desktop and select the desired rotation, applying the changes. The rotation values already described above are available.
Intel HD Graphics Control Panel
In the context menu, select Graphic characteristics... In the window that opens, select a category Display > Basic settings. Now it is enough to specify the desired rotation value in degrees. Depending on the program version, the interface may differ slightly. But all versions have the ability to programmatically change the display orientation.
Windows 10 screen rotation hotkeys
Really big in Windows 10. The hotkey table includes all the useful shortcuts available in the operating system. But there is no data on hot keys for rotating the screen. This means that changing the screen layout using hotkeys occurs thanks to third-party software.
The Intel HD Integrated Graphics Control Panel allows you to use hotkey shortcuts to quickly rotate the screen. The user just needs to hold down the Ctrl + Alt keys and press the arrows in different directions.
Additionally, you can install the iRotate utility, which adds its own hotkeys for rotating the screen. Its keyboard shortcuts are the same as all those suggested above.
Conclusion
Laptop and computer users have always been able to rotate the screen, but this functionality was not needed. Only if the screen itself rotated (as users claim), then it was necessary to return it to its standard state. Using the operating system, you can set the display orientation to landscape or portrait.
