Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Accidental Discovery

Today I was browsing through Telugu blogs. Instead of clicking on browsers' back button, I used the short key combination Alt+LeftArrow. Screen went blank for one second. To my surprise the entire desktop layout got turned a 90 degree left.

After a few seconds of bewilderment, I started thinking what could have happened. After trying a few key combinations for a few more seconds, I got to know there is such a facility in this operating system (Windows Xp Prof). I am not much interested to know more about it, but it can be useful while I read stories in my Notebook. The accidentally discovered key combination is: Control+Alt+AnyArrow.

5 comments:

వీవెన్ said...

It is feature of Intel Graphics Driver, than of Win XP. And, we can disable those hot keys too.

Anonymous said...

Many great discoveries are happened accidently and helped tooo many people. This one atleast helped one person. btw, sometimes i read sleeping sidewise and wondered why MS is not coming up with this feature.

Thanks man...

రానారె said...

Thank you for the info, Veeven.
Thank you too, MAN!

spandana said...

It is not happening on my Windows XP Prof!!

--Prasad
http://blog.charasala.com

రానారె said...

As Veeven said, it is a feature of Intel Graphics Driver. Probably your are using a different Graphics hardware, and that hardware is using its own driver!?