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How to Rotate Your Screen Image

A neat little trick you can do in Windows is rotate your entire screen orientation. Try the key combination: Ctrl + Alt + [Arrow Key]. The up arrow will keep or return the orientation to normal and the right, down, and left arrows, respectively, rotate the screen clockwise.

Note, this seems to work on most newer graphic chipsets, so it may not work on older graphics cards or integrated video.

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18 thoughts on “How to Rotate Your Screen Image”

chief sitting bull says:

August 21, 2016 at 10:40 am

Once my head was in a proper position to read the script….after a few hits of the buttons abracadabra,
all was back to normal….

Adam Schadt says:

April 21, 2013 at 2:30 pm

How do I do this with an NVIDIA card, I have one in a new laptop I’m using and the shortcut isn’t working.

loo poo says:

April 5, 2013 at 11:45 am

thanks. my little sister was being a jerk and pressing random keys so it really helped

UraDoap says:

September 6, 2010 at 5:55 pm

Thanks for repeating exactly what’s in the blog, numbnuts

jayne says:

June 8, 2010 at 3:42 pm

brilliant! was playing an older game on dosbox, thought that had done it, but was just the controls i was using! thanks

Maria says:

April 30, 2010 at 5:39 pm

Thanks simple and to the point.

Jan De Smet says:

April 19, 2010 at 4:21 am

hi,
Is there an option you can check if the screen rotation doesnt work. I got a user who got a new build on her pc, and while her other colleuges have the option to do the flip screen she doesn’t, any idea where to look for this option?

jack says:

April 15, 2010 at 6:59 am

Thanks for this. I accidentally rotated my screen and couldn’t work out how I’d done it!

Blas says:

March 12, 2010 at 3:32 pm

On my Acer, using Vista, I can rotate the screen by clicking on my ATI (red) icon in the system tray. (Display driver)

Alexia says:

March 2, 2010 at 11:43 am

I tried this so many times but it isn’t working! is there anything else I can do?

Aqeel Hashmi says:

November 10, 2014 at 4:02 am

first of all enable the rotations for your window

Danielle says:

November 20, 2009 at 11:00 am

Thank you, It worked no problem

Pro Raj says:

November 15, 2009 at 3:07 pm

Thank you i was playing potconline and i accedantly rotated my screen.
Ty for telling me how to fix it

David Grophear says:

November 1, 2009 at 12:48 pm

My cat sat on my laptop and rotated the screen display. I tried to push everything, then tried Windows Help (worthless). Totally frantic, I listened to my wife and did a search on Ask.com.

Your site came up as well as your answer. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

adaris says:

August 25, 2009 at 8:03 pm

My brothers laptop screen is flipped and we can figure out how to put it back and I try the thing u siad on here but there not working

khaled says:

July 29, 2008 at 7:53 am

How to Rotate Your Screen Image
Posted Sep 27, 2006 by David Risley
A neat little trick you can do in Windows is rotate your entire screen orientation. Try the key combination: Ctrl + Alt + [Arrow Key]. The up arrow will keep or return the orientation to normal and the right, down, and left arrows, respectively, rotate the screen clockwise.

Note, this seems to work on most newer graphic chipsets, so it may not work on older graphics cards or integrated video.

Jack Leonard says:

May 3, 2008 at 4:54 pm

Another possibility: check Control Panels for an “Intel Extreme Graphics” control panel. Open it and you should have an option to enable rotation as well as buttons for 90, 180 and 270 degrees. If you select Enable Rotation and shut off Num lock you will be able to rotate the screen using the arrow keys on the keypad – Ctrl/Option/Right Arrow (in the keypad) will rotate 90 degrees, Ctrl/Option/Down Arrow for 180, Ctrl/Option/Left Arrow for 270 and Ctrl/Option/Up arrow to return the screen to normal.