XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-xp, alt.os.windows.xp   
   From: farookdas@picknowl.on.net   
      
   On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 06:44:22 +0200, Steve Hayes   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:00:23 +1030, David  wrote:   
   >   
   >>On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:25:59 +0000 (UTC), Steve Hayes   
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>I was working in an app in Windows XP and pressed Alt Ctrl 174 on the   
   >>>numeric keypad. In that app it should have inserted a character, but   
   >>>instead it passed the command on to Windows, and it changed the screen   
   >>>orientation from landscape to portrait, so that now the screen appears   
   >>>sideways.   
   >>>   
   >>>How can I get it back to the normal landscape orientation?   
   >>   
   >>Why did you press Ctrl?   
   >   
   >Because that is what is required by the program.   
      
   The Alt-keypad codes are a Windows thing not a particular program.   
   They should work in any program regardless of its source.   
      
   What program requires you to press Ctrl with it?   
      
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