How to fix a flipped screen in Windows 10

Do you want to know a nice trick? This simple keyboard shortcut rotates the Windows 10 screen in all ways. While using your Windows 10 computer, you may come across a rare event where the screen flips or appears tilted to one side. Do not worry. You don’t have a virus; in fact, this is a perfectly normal feature of Windows 10! Let’s see how to reactivate the screen in the correct way.

How to rotate the screen in Windows 10 using hotkeys

If you hold down the CTRL and ALT keys, then press an arrow key on your keyboard, the screen may rotate in that direction. We say “can” because it probably won’t work on computers with more than one monitor or incompatible graphics driver.

However, you can quickly check if your computer has this feature by holding down CTRL + ALT + Up Arrow. This should flip the computer screen the right way again.

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If it worked, great! Your computer is compatible with screen rotation hotkeys. Therefore, take note of these shortcuts for future reference:

• CTRL + ALT + Up Arrow: rotate screen up right (horizontal)
• CTRL + ALT + Left Arrow: rotate the screen 90 degrees counterclockwise (vertical)
• CTRL + ALT + Right Arrow: rotate the screen 90 degrees clockwise (portrait)
• CTRL + ALT + Down Arrow: rotate the screen upside down (flipped horizontally)

How to rotate screen in Windows 10 without hotkeys

On the other hand, if the above shortcut keys don’t work, there is another way to fix it. It involves the use of the screen, so you may want to turn the monitor or tilt your head as you go through these steps.

First of all, right-click on the desktop and select Screen settings. Scroll down until you see the category named Display orientation. Click the drop-down box under this category, then select Horizontal. The screen should then return to normal.

You will notice that you can select four options from this drop-down menu, each with the same name as the shortcut keys we mentioned above. So, if you want to change the monitor orientation but the hotkeys don’t work, you can go back to this screen and adjust it to your liking.

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If your cat jumps on the keyboard and the screen suddenly turns in the wrong direction, don’t panic. Using a simple hotkey, you can get things back to normal.

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