Laptop Display has gone upside down - how to get it back the right way up? Help and advice

[Cadbury]

DH's Dell Inspiron laptop has been on most of today and in regular use. He left it open and on the floor (but tucked out of sight and reach of little hands - we hope!!). When he came to use it this evening, he found the display had flipped upside down. Cannot find any useful advice on the Dell website, cannot work how it even got updside down, let alone how to flip it back the right way.

Any ideas what we can do?

[ClausImWorthIt]

I think that you have to press the alt key and the up arrow at the same time.

[ClausImWorthIt]

Or the alt and the down arrow - play with those combinations!

[cheekysealion]

maybe control and alt.. and up arrows

[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- Disable you can stop them doing it again.

[Cadbury]

thanks - will cheekysealion, will give that a try right now

[Cadbury]

well, guys, posted this and within 13 minutes you've solved my problem - laptop back to normal!! They don't call Mumsnet "The Oracle" for nothing!!!

Many thanks to Claus, cheeky & Rusty