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A great trick that you might not know about...

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Posted 29 November 2006 - 11:14 PM

Those of you with Tablets may already know about this one, but if you ever want to play a trick on someone, hit the following key sequence:

Ctrl+Alt+Down

This has worked on MOST of the computers I have tried it on (including laptops) running XP. To switch it back, hit:

Ctrl+Alt+Up

You can also flip the screen sideways by hitting: Ctrl+Alt+Left and Ctrl+Alt+Right

This will definitely confuse some of your profs when having your laptop sideways on your lap. :lol:

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Posted 29 November 2006 - 11:23 PM

lmao that sounds like a funny trick, im gonna try it

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Posted 29 November 2006 - 11:33 PM

Unfortunately it depends upon your video card driver and if you have the hotkeys for that turned on. I turn it off for all the laptops I deploy, though I leave it on for the tablets. But it can be fun.

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Posted 30 November 2006 - 04:40 AM

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Those of you with Tablets


thread aimed at tablets, not laptops...

All our science staff use tablets, and they all use these shortcuts, so the trick wouldnt work for us unfortunately :P

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Posted 30 November 2006 - 11:55 AM

wouldnt work on my pc unfortunatly but still sounds like a funny prank

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Posted 30 November 2006 - 01:50 PM

Yes, it does depend on your video card and driver... However, I have tried it on several non-tablet Dell laptops and it seems to work fine.

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Posted 02 December 2006 - 09:16 PM

ya my comps at school do that :)
onboard intel video...

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Posted 02 December 2006 - 09:24 PM

nVidia and ATi drivers have an option for that in their control panel.

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Posted 05 December 2006 - 02:55 PM

Oh I am going to use this one :angel

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