Tip: Name: Mel Lee
just wondering if you can help me out. My granddaughter was leaning on the keyboard and everything on the monitor went upside down. I resarted the computer and it is still upside down. How do I get it right side up.
Thanks in advance
Where you say your granddaughter leaned on the keyboard the first thing I’d try is the key combination CTRL+ALT+UPARROW (Hold down the CTRL key, the ALT key and the UP or DOWN arrow at the same time) some display drivers/chipsets have this “feature” and your fix could be as simple as that.
It also could be a virus. Trojan.Swoop and Joke.Flipped will both cause the issue that you are describing.
Boot to Safe Mode with network support. Load your virus scanner, update the definitions (You’ll need to be connected to the internet to update), and do a full system scan. More than likely your display will show up normally in Safe Mode.
You also may try just changing the resolution that your computer is at. Apparently something as simple as that may invert it back to it’s correct state. To do that:
1. Right click on the desktop
2. Click Properties
3. Click the Settings tab
4. Select a different resolution and click OK
If that works, then you may be able to change right back to the res. you were at previously.
Check your startup with HijackThis and make sure that nothing out of the ordinary is there. If you’re not comfortable with HijackThis then you can use MSConfig to check what’s loading on startup. Anything done in MSConfig can be undone by re-checking the item.
It may also be the Windows Accessibility application that is causing the problem. Accessibility is made for vision-impaired people so it will magnify the screen or whatnot for them. Evidently if the resoultion is changed to something that it doesn’t like, it’ll flip the screen (with supported chipsets). There’s a hotfix for this.
Responses to “Windows Display Upside Down”
September 11th, 2007 at 10:42 am
Thank you so much for this info…i thought my daughter had gotten herself into a virus mess.
September 22nd, 2007 at 9:12 pm
THANKS!! My 2nd grade son and his friend were using the computer and bumped the keyboard and freaked out when everything went upside-down. Boy did they think they were in for big trouble!
September 26th, 2007 at 6:06 am
Thanks so much for this. My colleague and i are in the middle of preparinga really important document – and we thought we’d gone mad when this happened.
September 27th, 2007 at 8:01 pm
Thank you for this, my son and I thought we had gone insane we tried EVERYTHING, but not THAT and it worked *smile*
November 8th, 2007 at 5:47 am
Thanks soooooo much! Was sure the computer had a big virus. Such a simple solution though!
November 10th, 2007 at 10:31 pm
This fix worked great! I don’t know how my boys got this display properties changed…but they did. I am glad that it wasn’t something worse.
November 19th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
many thanks my grandson was playing on a game and turned everything upside down. i thought it was going to cost a fortune at a computer shop. you have saved me a fortune.
December 1st, 2007 at 2:03 pm
Thank you sooo much!! I thought my daughter had a virus on her computer. This worked right away. :-)
December 26th, 2007 at 10:52 am
Another son turning things to 90 degrees angle!What a relief to find I did not have to spend ages trying to figure out the solution to this problem.
thanks a million
Olu
January 18th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
This is exactly what i was looking for, my wifes cat sat on her laptop keyboard, again, and flipped the screen. I knew it was a shortcut of some kind, and this was what i needed to put it to rights.
January 21st, 2008 at 3:39 am
Thank you very much. I thought my job would kill me if they found out we need to get another computer repaired.
March 5th, 2008 at 1:30 am
Thanks this feature, that I now know of, is cool to show people across from you on your laptop and it’s impressive…well now that I know how to do it on purpose of course!!!
July 7th, 2008 at 2:20 am
thanks so much for this i think you just saved me!
i was having a mass panic and getting so confused
thank you
August 2nd, 2008 at 5:06 am
Thank you thank you thank you….I just about threw the bloody thing out the window…ctrl alt arrow up indeed!!!!
September 19th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Thanks for this. When I came home and saw my display was upside down I had absolutely no clue how to fix it, despite looking it up in the Help menu.
It was my cat who caused the problem, too, I just KNOW it. I think he’s just jealous of all the time I spend looking at my laptop instead of at him. ;-)
October 8th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
My son did this exact thing and I have been freaked out. Thanks for this website, you guys are God-sent!
October 20th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
I’d never heard of this happening until my mom called me in a panic because she let her great-granddaughter play with the keyboard.
Thanks for having such a simple solution. She thinks I’m a genius.
October 21st, 2008 at 7:35 pm
I was playing a game, and all of a sudden the screen just flipped! I thought I was going get an earful from my parents about how “computer games are dangerous” and what not. Thank Heavens for you guys! Now everything’s fixed, and I know what caused the problem. You guys are saints :)
October 28th, 2008 at 5:50 am
this happened to me in the middle of working on a spreadsheet can u tell me what to do?
November 16th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
Thank you so much! My kittens sat my laptop and the screen got turned upside down. I played around with it for a while but nothing worked. Got online on my other computer and did a web search. Found your site and its fixed now. Thank you so much!
December 21st, 2008 at 12:07 pm
The letter S was sticking while typing my login & after several attemps, the display rotated 180 deg. Found your fix via GOOGLE; thanx a LOT!!
January 17th, 2009 at 6:51 am
thank you so much.
huge help my dad would have killed me if he saw what had happened.
good thing i fixed it before then.
thank you again
January 26th, 2009 at 11:20 am
Thanks for the tip, I am no longer reading what I write upside down. It was most helpful, will be returning to this site again when my computer mucks up….again. Thanks.
March 5th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
LMAO! my cat just sat on my laptop and changed mine too! this site saved me! thank you so much!!
March 8th, 2009 at 12:21 am
Thank you a lot for your important information regarding Display upside down problem.
June 4th, 2009 at 9:32 am
hi!
gr8 it solved d problem in a minute…
yesterday my kid had caused d problem..
n we were worried…
thanx sooooooooo much!!
June 6th, 2009 at 5:30 am
Hey – thanks for the tip – worked great after my cat sat on the laptop!
Guess it’ll try turning my phone’s language to Mongolian next!
July 2nd, 2009 at 3:39 am
Colleague contacted our IT department and was advised to ground himself before opening the box!! Thought I would check out your site first. Thank deity for you.
February 17th, 2010 at 7:46 am
OMG! It worked and I am thrilled. This morning I was preparing to take this computer to get it repaired. I even called my nephew in North Carolina to help me. He never heard of anything like this. I ran an anti virus scan on my computer but it didn’t find anything. It must have been caused by my three year old twin touching things. Do you think? Well anyway…THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!
March 4th, 2010 at 7:22 pm
Ich meine Tochter spielte auf meinem Computer, wenn das Windows auf den Kopf verändert anzuschauen! Ich sah überall auf der festen und beheben die Anzeige erhalten, so dass es richtig ausgerichtet ist. Danke!
June 11th, 2007 at 5:39 am
thanks this really helped. i was freaking out.