Any ideas what DS could have done to turn our computer display upside down?

[ABudafulSightWereHappyTonight]

DS is 7 and was playing on the computer and then when I went to use it everything was upside down.

DH did a system restore and managed to sort it but we would like to know what it could have been. Virus? DS was on a site he uses a lot - MiniClips.

[Tommy]

mine do that a lot - or make it really big.
Pretty sure it's not a virus - just one of the settings I think

[M44]

It happens often in this house- usually the cat sits on the computer. Just right click, go into personalise and search for screen orientation- then reset the screen to landscape- it will be obvious once you get there! The tricky bit is doind all of that upside down with the mouse moving the wrong way etc!

[onager]

There is a key combination that does it. I think it's ctrl plus Alt and one of the arrow keys

[southeastastra]

are you sure he didn't just turn the monitor upside down

[RustyBear]

Ctrl Alt & the up arrow will fix it.
It's very common for toddlers to do this, because they just bang one chubby little paw down on each side of the keyboard - one hits ctrl & Alt & the other goes squarely on the arrow keys & it's just a matter of luck whether your screen ends up upside down or sideways...

After you've put it right,if you right click the desk top & choose graphics options-Hot Keys- Disableyou can stop him doing it again.

[RustyBear]

Just noticed your DS is 7, so he probably did it trying to use Ctrl-Alt-Del & hit the down arrow key instead of delete - the year 3s at school do it all the time (or did until I disabled it) - it's because they think they know how to unfreeze a computer & they use it as soon as the pc takes more than a nano-second to do something.

[ABudafulSightWereHappyTonight]

Thank you all. DH was all for banning DS from the computer as he was convinced it was a virus.

Will try to disable it - thanks for that advice RustyBear.

southeastastra - I wondered if we had suddenly been trasnported to Australia and the monitor stayed here!

[bigTillyMint]

The kids at work do this quite regularly - it's just an accident and easily fixed as RB says!