Well if you landed on this post via a Search Engine, then chances are high that you have accidentally managed to rotate your monitor screen and desperate to find out a solution that helps you revert back to normal. Okay let us use our “crystal ball” and guess what happened:
Your 6 month old kid was smacking the keyboard of your laptop last evening and somehow rotated the entire screen 90 degrees. Now everything is shifted (rotated); web pages, the desktop, the task bar and even the mouse cursor. You have tried repeating the accidental keyboard shortcut (that your kid pressed causing all this) but still don’t have a clue on “How to correct this“! This is what happend. Right? 
Whether it was your kid who caused this or it was you or someone else, whether it is your desktop PC that is affected or your laptop, as long as you are dealing with Microsft Windows XP or above (Vista, Windows 7) the solution is much simpler than you had imagined. Here is what you need to do to get rid of your rotated monitor screen and get it back to normal:
If your system has this particular Intel graphics driver and runs on Win XP:
> Right click on your desktop.
> Click open “Properties”.
> Click open “Settings” tab.
> Click open the “Advanced” tab that is seen towards the bottom right corner.
> Click open the “Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator Driver” tab.
> Click open “Graphics Properties” tab seen towards the bottom right corner.
> Click open “Rotation” tab.
> Make your changes.
Another way to do this is:
> If you have the Intel (R) Graphics Media Accelerator Driver icon in the systems tray at the bottom right hand corner of your screen or in your quick launch tool bar, then double click it to open the menu.
> Select “Graphic option” and then the “Graphic Properties”.
> Click open “Rotation” tab.
> Make your changes.
Keyboard Shortcut to rotate your monitor screen (Win XP):
Try holding down <CTRL> + <ALT> + Any cursor (arrow) key and that will rotate your desktop (Up = Upside down, Down = Normal, Right = 90 degree clockwise and Left = 90 degree anti-clockwise)
For any other OS (Win Vista, Win 7 etc):
> Right click on your desktop.
> Select “Graphics Options” from the context menu.
> Select “Rotation” from the context sub-menu.
> Make your changes.
Keyboard Shortcut to rotate your monitor screen (Win Vista, Win 7 etc):
Try holding down <CTRL> + <ALT> + Any cursor (arrow) key and that will rotate your desktop (Up = Upside down, Down = Normal, Right = 90 degree clockwise and Left = 90 degree anti-clockwise)
If you are still wondering how your kid managed to make so many clicks/key combination perfectly to rotate your screen, perhaps it was the keyboard shortcut ( <CTRL> + <ALT> + Any cursor (arrow) key) that must have done it 
Hope this little trick helped you to get back your un-rotated monitor screen. Let us know if it didn’t!
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This problem has happend to me several twice when my 4 yrs old sister played with my PC. On the first time i pressed sevral keys and accidently it got corrected. But the 2nd time i found the keys. This seems as serious problem and it is funny
It had caused me a whole 8 hours of sleepless night when it had happened to my newly bought Dell laptop. Thank god, I could use my gaming desktop to search for it in Google and finally got this solution. Unless and until we get it fixed it can cause serious inconvenience!
Wow, this was a really quality post. In theory I’d like to write like this too – taking time and real effort to make a good article… but what can I say… I procrastinate alot and never seem to get something done.