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Help! Viking Kitty Messed Up My Computer!
Posted on 06/28/2004 9:07:28 AM PDT by Not A Snowbird
Help, all you techies out there. Last night my cat sat on my keyboard (all 24 pounds of him). When I finally dislodged him, I discovered my screen display had rotated 90 degrees. I can't figure out what combination of keys he sat on to cause this, so I can't undo what he did.
Anybody out there know what to do? I'm working on a Dell with Windows XP. And please don't tell me to get a Mac, that would not be very helpful right now.
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Any help, and/or fat cat jokes, would be appreciated!
To: SandyInSeattle
To: SandyInSeattle
Lay monitor on side.
Get a dog.
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posted on
06/28/2004 9:10:46 AM PDT
by
headsonpikes
(Spirit of '76 bttt!)
To: SandyInSeattle
At 24 pounds, I'm impressed he
could get up onto the keyboard. Bull (21 pounds) cannot.
-Eric
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posted on
06/28/2004 9:11:13 AM PDT
by
E Rocc
(Facts are to the left what garlic is to vampires.)
To: SandyInSeattle
Hopefully it was rotated to the right.
5
posted on
06/28/2004 9:11:13 AM PDT
by
myself6
(Nazi = socialist democrat=socialist therefore democrat = Nazi)
To: SandyInSeattle
Can you do a system restore to a day earlier than when kitty sat on the keys?
6
posted on
06/28/2004 9:11:27 AM PDT
by
MizSterious
(First, the journalists, THEN the lawyers.)
To: SandyInSeattle
The exact same thing happened to my fiance.
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posted on
06/28/2004 9:11:28 AM PDT
by
Bogey78O
(Counter offer. All prisoners are to be killed unless he is released)
To: DainBramage
Puss-N-Reboots ? LOL! I think I just found Tomas' new nickname. Thanks!
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posted on
06/28/2004 9:11:30 AM PDT
by
Not A Snowbird
(You need tons click "co-ordinating")
To: SandyInSeattle
Since it's a Dell. Call them up and tell them this story. If they don't Zot you, they've probably got a fix.
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posted on
06/28/2004 9:11:58 AM PDT
by
McGruff
To: myself6
Hopefully it was rotated to the right. That's the problem. It rotated left. This simply cannot stand!
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posted on
06/28/2004 9:12:18 AM PDT
by
Not A Snowbird
(You need tons click "co-ordinating")
To: SandyInSeattle
Just put your monitor on its side!
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posted on
06/28/2004 9:12:24 AM PDT
by
CSM
(Liberals may see Saddam's mass graves in Iraq as half-full, but I prefer to see them as half-empty.)
To: SandyInSeattle
Not exactly sure what you mean, but going into the control panel, switch to classic view and click on the display icon. You might be able to get to somehow reset it back to where it was.... Keep the kitty litter handy....
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posted on
06/28/2004 9:13:21 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(John Kerry changes positions more often than a Nevada prostitute!!!)
To: SandyInSeattle
The new Dell flat screen monitors, some of them, can be rotated like the old Xerox word processor screens. Maybe a google would turn up something.
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posted on
06/28/2004 9:13:27 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Destroy the dark; restore the light)
To: headsonpikes
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posted on
06/28/2004 9:13:27 AM PDT
by
jonsie
To: SandyInSeattle
If you have a dell monitor, have you checked to see if that isnt the cause of your problem?
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posted on
06/28/2004 9:13:39 AM PDT
by
myself6
(Nazi = socialist democrat=socialist therefore democrat = Nazi)
To: MizSterious
Can you do a system restore to a day earlier than when kitty sat on the keys? I could try, but the mouse isn't working too well right now. I think it's confused.
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posted on
06/28/2004 9:13:53 AM PDT
by
Not A Snowbird
(You need tons click "co-ordinating")
To: McGruff
I assume it's not a laptop. Try fixing it from the buttons on your monitor. You should find a restore button.Hope that helps.
To: SandyInSeattle
but the mouse isn't working too well right now.Probably because the cat was sitting there so long....
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posted on
06/28/2004 9:14:58 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(John Kerry changes positions more often than a Nevada prostitute!!!)
To: myself6
If you have a dell monitor, have you checked to see if that isnt the cause of your problem? Like maybe unplugging the monitor and then plugging it back in?
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posted on
06/28/2004 9:15:11 AM PDT
by
Not A Snowbird
(You need tons click "co-ordinating")
To: E Rocc
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posted on
06/28/2004 9:16:01 AM PDT
by
Not A Snowbird
(You need tons click "co-ordinating")
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