BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???

Subject: BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???
From: Bobert
Date: 26 Jan 11 - 02:30 PM

Help!!!

The P-Vine has messed up her pudder and the screen is upside down... Mouse goes backwards and all...

How do I right it...

No, Rap, I'm turning the monitor over...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Jan 11 - 02:40 PM

(*I will NOT suggest standing on her head!)
The monitor usually has setting that can be accessed on the front... see if there ARE buttons and push the one on the left.

Subject: RE: BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???
From: EBarnacle
Date: 26 Jan 11 - 02:43 PM

Is it upside down and mirrored?
If it is in XP and is not mirrored, try right clicking on the screen.
Select the correct item in the dialog box and click on that.
Then follow it out. My computer has an "NVidia settings" option. Clicking on that brings me to another dialog box which includes "rotate image."
Let the computer tell you how to correct the problem from this point onward.

Subject: RE: BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Jan 11 - 02:50 PM

I was NOT going to suggest that! I was going to suggest turning the house over.

Subject: RE: BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???
From: Bobert
Date: 26 Jan 11 - 03:00 PM

The monitor has four buttons in the middle... One points up, one down and the other two toward the opposite sides...

When I click on the top one I get a box for contrast, color, rotation, etc... If I use the buttons that point to the sides then the ther various parts of the menus are highlighted... Kinda like a clock hand... I can get it to the "rotation" icon but then can't find any combination that flips it...

I've tried the the right click and can't find anything in there that is related to the screen???

B~

Subject: RE: BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???
From: bobad
Date: 26 Jan 11 - 03:08 PM

Check this out Bobster: http://www.ehow.com/how_2169927_flip-monitor-display.html

Subject: RE: BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Jan 11 - 03:08 PM

Turn the P-vine over?

Subject: RE: BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???
From: Ebbie
Date: 26 Jan 11 - 03:30 PM

When everything else fails, Bobert, I do a System Restore. Go back to an available date and have it restored to when everything was all right.

(Go to Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, System Restore)

Subject: RE: BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 26 Jan 11 - 03:53 PM

Good idea, Ebbie. I get to System Restore by clicking on Sart, then Help. System Restore is right there on the first page that comes up. (I use Windows XP.)

Subject: RE: BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Jan 11 - 04:26 PM

Well... the "flip monitor" page looks like it 'could' be the culprit, but I can't make it happen.
It sure would be easy to accidentally do it on some machines.

Subject: RE: BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???
From: Bobert
Date: 26 Jan 11 - 04:44 PM

Well, well, well...

Since last posting I figured I'd take the tractor down the driveway and plow the 4 inches of new snow and get them mail... Problem is that one of the front tires was flat (Bobert luck) so I had to take it off and make my way down to the tire store for a new tube and just got back (5 inches of snow now) and the P-Vine tried the stuff that ya'll suggested and then remembered her friend Lina so...

... a quick call to LinaBean and it's fixed...

Ctrl+Alt+the arrow that points up!!!

All is well... And I made it up the driveway with my Toyota 4wd truck with tractor tire in the back...

Lord looks a fetr fools, drunks and kids...

Thanks everyone...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???
From: Amergin
Date: 26 Jan 11 - 05:16 PM

Yeah this only works for computers with certain video cards....use to pull this trick on workmates who left their computers unlocked...and then I'd lock the computer, so they would have to enter their log in information upside down...

Subject: RE: BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???
From: Bobert
Date: 26 Jan 11 - 05:37 PM

Funny...

Subject: RE: BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Jan 11 - 09:14 PM

P-vine could have just stood on her head....

Subject: RE: BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 26 Jan 11 - 09:36 PM

I refrained from saying that. Send me my checque ...

Subject: RE: BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???
From: Ebbie
Date: 26 Jan 11 - 10:42 PM

lol

Subject: RE: BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???
From: EBarnacle
Date: 26 Jan 11 - 11:29 PM

By the way, remember to reset the date on your system restore to today's date.

Subject: RE: BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???
From: Ebbie
Date: 27 Jan 11 - 01:27 AM

My System Restore, EBarn, doesn't change the date.

Subject: RE: BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???
From: GUEST,999
Date: 27 Jan 11 - 11:34 AM

Just saw the thread. Are you in Australia?

Subject: RE: BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Jan 11 - 02:34 PM

Look, Bobert. You live in Virginia. Yorktown is in Virginia. When the Brits surrendered at Yorktown their band played "The World Turned Upside Down" as they marched out.

Whaddaya expect? Turn the world back over and it would be right side up. 'Course, you'd be under British rule....

Subject: RE: BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 27 Jan 11 - 03:01 PM

A right click on the screen will just show properties of one of the shortcut icons if you click on an icon. Some icons have fairly large borders that capture the icon even if it looks like you're on a blank space between them.

If you click where a program is displayed, of course you only get properties for the program.

If you click (right click) in a blank part of the screen the options you see may depend partly on the graphics card and driver you have installed.

A fairly typical window when you right click on a blank place will show a "view" section. Among common "office" pranks, at the View location you can uncheck the "show icons" to make all of a victims desktop icons disappear.

Most of the popup windows that you get when you right click in a blank part of the screen will show a "graphic properties" and a "graphic options." In graphic options there is likely to be a "rotation" choice where you can choose which way to flop the desktop.

Separately, at "graphic options," you may have a choice for "hot keys" or something similar. The default for many graphics drivers is to have hot keys enabled, and that probably is required to have the Ctl-Alt-Arrow keys work to flip the desktop view around. If you uncheck the "hot keys" option before using the "rotation" to flip someone's screen, the Ctl-Alt-up arrow likely will fail to return things to normal.

Only a TDP (truly despicable prankster) would turn off all the icons and disable hot keys before rotating the screen on someone else's computer. Such a person would deserve to sit in a puddle of molasses in his/her chair, and to find salt in his/her coffeee and a dead mouse in a top left desk drawer. (...the documentable retaliations thus far seen ...)

Unfortunately, a TDP personality is seldom reformed by even the most deserved of responses.

John

Subject: RE: BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???
From: Bobert
Date: 27 Jan 11 - 03:11 PM

Listen, ya'll... IT weren't my pudder... IT was the P-Vines pudder and she don't live in Australia or Yorktown and...

...it's fixed!!! Lina Bean helped her over the phone...

As fir my pudder??? It went down last night toward the end of the snow and I'm not sure what I did to get it workin' today but spent alopt of time clickin' on boxes... I think it's workin' now but if ya'll ain't reading this then maybe not???

B~

Subject: RE: BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???
From: GUEST,999
Date: 27 Jan 11 - 06:03 PM

What did you write, Bobert?

Subject: RE: BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???
From: GUEST,999
Date: 27 Jan 11 - 06:10 PM

It`s ok Bobert. I stood on my head and your post is quite clear now.

Subject: RE: BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Jan 11 - 06:11 PM

This is what I read. I'm pretty sure it's from Bobert.

¿¿¿ʇou ǝqʎɐɯ uǝɥʇ sıɥʇ ƃuıpɐǝɹ ʇ,uıɐ ןן,ɐʎ ɟı ʇnq ʍou ,uıʞɹoʍ s,ʇı ʞuıɥʇ ı ˙˙˙sǝxoq uo ,uıʞɔıןɔ ǝɯıʇ ɟo ʇdoןɐ ʇuǝds ʇnq ʎɐpoʇ ,uıʞɹoʍ ʇı ʇǝƃ oʇ pıp ı ʇɐɥʍ ǝɹns ʇou ɯ,ı puɐ ʍous ǝɥʇ ɟo puǝ ǝɥʇ pɹɐʍoʇ ʇɥƃıu ʇsɐן uʍop ʇuǝʍ ʇı ¿¿¿ɹǝppnd ʎɯ ɹıɟ sɐ

˙˙˙ǝuoɥd ǝɥʇ ɹǝʌo ɹǝɥ pǝdןǝɥ uɐǝq ɐuıן ¡¡¡pǝxıɟ s,ʇı˙˙˙

˙˙˙puɐ uʍoʇʞɹoʎ ɹo ɐıןɐɹʇsnɐ uı ǝʌıן ʇ,uop ǝɥs puɐ ɹǝppnd sǝuıʌ-d ǝɥʇ sɐʍ ʇı ˙˙˙ɹǝppnd ʎɯ ʇ,uǝɹǝʍ ʇı ˙˙˙ןן,ɐʎ 'uǝʇsıן

Subject: RE: BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???
From: Bobert
Date: 27 Jan 11 - 06:24 PM

Hold on, Rap... This is gonna take a while.... This standing on my head makes me dizzy and cuts into my beer drenkin' time...

Subject: RE: BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 27 Jan 11 - 08:26 PM

Pick up the monitor, turn it upside down - ah ok ....

Subject: RE: BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 01:54 AM

This standing on my head makes me dizzy and cuts into my beer drenkin' time...

Ctl-Alt-DownArrow

Or if yer alreddy standin on yer head:

Ctl-Alt-UpArrow

John

Subject: RE: BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 04:48 AM

It also works as:
Ctrl-Alt-Left/Right Arrow to turn screen through 90 degrees.
Useful if you want to attach the base of your monitor to a side wall to clear more desk space.
It will also help if you want to regularly view A4 documents with minimal scrolling!

Cheers
Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 01:27 PM

I tried attaching my monitor to the wall. Stuck out about two feet and even duct tape didn't hold it up real good.

Subject: RE: BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 05:00 PM

You need to punch a hole in the wall, mate. Then your neighbor can hang his hat on it.

Subject: RE: BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???
From: Bobert
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 05:34 PM

Get the Lowes brand duct tape, Rap, and leave that Dollar Store stuff on the shelf...

Subject: RE: BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 05:34 PM

Is it true that they have monitors now that show stuff in something other than green? When I bought it I was told it was a color monitor and when I asked the sales guy later he said "Green is a color" and when I went there again the store had gone out of business.

Subject: RE: BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 08:20 PM

Rap -

I have the receipts from when I traded in my green monitor to one that showed in YELLOW on black 'cause it was easier to read during long sessions. Some of the green ones were actually more of a GREEN on green that didn't have crisp contrast. There's always choices.

John

Subject: RE: BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 09:43 PM

Wow. Hey, does anyone know where I can get some 8" floppy disks? I can't find any in the stores around here.

Subject: RE: BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???
From: EBarnacle
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 10:19 PM

Sorry, Rap, we just threw ours out.

Subject: RE: BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 10:46 PM

And I threw out a bunch of storage drawers for 5-1/4 floppies just before discovering that they're a perfect fit for CDs/DVDs in the thin jewel boxes.

John

Subject: RE: BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 11:59 PM

Well, okay. How about some paper tape?

Subject: RE: BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???
From: EBarnacle
Date: 29 Jan 11 - 12:10 AM

The sulfated paper has gotten stiff and brittle, sorry.

Subject: RE: BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 29 Jan 11 - 03:57 AM

Well, I'm half like that at my age ...

Subject: RE: BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 29 Jan 11 - 04:02 AM

In the TRS-80 days I had quite a good thing going buying sheets of green theatrical spotlight color gel and cutting it up ...

and I have a full height 10 Mb Hard drive ... as well as a terminal screen and keyboard...

Subject: RE: BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 29 Jan 11 - 04:31 AM

'Bobert-land' is obviously an exciting place - full of colour and incident!

Subject: RE: BS: HELP!!! Pudder screen upside down???
From: Bobert
Date: 29 Jan 11 - 08:56 AM

Way too much of both fir this ol' hillbilly... I'm ready for a quiet bed in a nursing home of the asylum...