I did it to myself in a two screen environment and (spoiler alert!) Ctrl-Alt-UpArrow made them both right. Windows 7 Pro 64-bit.
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nims,Alva John (Al) Sent: Friday, April 01, 2016 6:35 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Passable April Foll's joke I DO NOT recommend doing so on a Multi-Screen system or Multi-Screen Windows 7, because at the moment, one screen is back to being right side up, but the other is still UPSIDE DOWN! Yes, I did it to myself, before I attempt to do it to someone else, guess what I WON'T be doing today! :-) Al Nims Systems Admin/Programmer 3 UFIT University of Florida (352) 273-1298 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Ford Sent: Friday, April 01, 2016 8:41 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Passable April Foll's joke Brian, Very very funny my friend... Throws people for a serious curve .... Scott On Friday, April 1, 2016, Brian Westerman <[email protected]> wrote: > This is one I do every year to as many people as I can. I think it > works on all windows PCs. > > I wait till they are not looking and press the combination of > CTRL+ALT+downarrow It inverts their screen. > > Try to walk away as quickly as possible without drawing attention to > yourself. A lot of people don't realize what happened and they can't > coordinate working upside down to do a web search to see how to set it > back to right-side up. > > It helps if you know how to reset it back in case you can't get away > fast enough. > > Brian > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] <javascript:;> with the message: > INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
