[Default] On 1 Apr 2016 07:03:56 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main [email protected] (Warren, Cliff) wrote:
>I learned about this last summer when my dog stepped on my laptop. His paw >happen to hit CNTL-ALT-RightArrow which made the screen face right. I had do >some quick googling to get back to a normal screen The control-alt arrow sequences do nothing on my Windows 10 machine. Clark Morris > >-----Original Message----- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On >Behalf Of Charles Mills >Sent: Friday, April 01, 2016 9:48 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Passable April Foll's joke > >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 > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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
