I turned my laptop upside down to get some dust that had gathered under the keyboard to fall out. But then suddenly, everything was sideways. The entire desktop had turned 90 degrees, the trackpad also worked sideways.
If you have an Intel video card (most likely with new Intel processors), hitting Ctrl + Alt + an arrow key triggered the screen rotation. Try hitting Ctrl + Alt + down arrow to restore the default.
In Intel video settings you can change the shortcut or disable altogether, as shown on my screenshot. I opened this media control panel by double clicking on the system tray icon.
Its a minor desktop rotation issue. Look into your display driver settings (ATI Catalyst Control Center, Intel Display Settings, nVidia Forceware etc), there has to be an option to change the display rotation. It'd be something like the following images.
This is probably triggered by an accelerometer in your laptop.
From my online tutorial: how to rotate the screen in Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 without any supplemental software and using only a single step:
To rotate your screen on left side press CTRL+ALT+ Left Arrow Key
To rotate your screen on right side press CTRL+ALT+ Right Arrow Key
To rotate your screen on bottom press CTRL+ALT+ Bottom Arrow Key
To rotate your screen on top press CTRL+ALT+ Top Arrow Key
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If you are a gamer and play a lot of games on your computer, this might be a very common issue for you. However, the solution to this common issue is not very common to a common man. When your computer screen flips upside down, you might generally start worrying and calling the vendor or a computer hardware technician to resolve the issue. Check this video to learn how to fix the inverted screen on your computer: [video='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWzeT52wZTA'][/video] Well!! Not anymore. A very easy and nice trick to flip computer display back to its original position, upside down, right or left is to use Ctrl + Alt keys on your keyboard along with any of the arrow keys depending on the direction where you want to flip the display of your computer screen. For example you can press: [listNum]■Ctrl + Alt + Right Arrow: To flip the screen to the right. ■Ctrl + Alt + Left Arrow: To flip the screen to the left. ■Ctrl + Alt + Up Arrow: To set the screen to its normal display settings. ■Ctrl + Alt + Down Arrow: To flip the screen upside down. [/listNum] Note: Not only in upside down situations, if your display screen is flipped in any direction, pressing the Ctrl + Alt + Up Arrow would instantaneously bring the screen back to its normal state.