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yirg.kenya - 29 Jun 2007 04:40 GMT

I have two laptops on vacation with me. My wife's old inspiron (9100?)
and my Dell latitude D620.

When I'm in itunes and I want to back up within a song (actually, an
audio book) the i-tunes instructions say to use control-alt-left
arrow. (Right arrow to move ahead.)

This works perfectly on my 9300 (but it's at home) but on my wife's
laptop NOTHING happens. That's right, nada.

However, on the D620 it's even worse. The control-alt-left-arrow
sequence rotates the screen 90 degrees counter clockwise!!

Can someone pls help me here.

Yirg

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Nicholas Andrade - 29 Jun 2007 05:44 GMT

> I have two laptops on vacation with me. My wife's old inspiron (9100?)
> and my Dell latitude D620.
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>
> Yirg

The screen rotation is related to Intel's graphics card drivers; there's
probably a way to disable the keybindings from control panel or you
could kill the Intel application (I forgot it's specific name, but just
go to the task manager and make an educated guess or download
ProcessExplorer from sysinternals and it should list which one is
Intel's processes).

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Yes Baby - 29 Jun 2007 08:20 GMT

>I have two laptops on vacation with me. My wife's old inspiron (9100?)
> and my Dell latitude D620.
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>
> Yirg

maybe Control Panel/Keyboard look for the left arrow and edit its
function............

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paulmd@efn.org - 30 Jun 2007 10:54 GMT

> I have two laptops on vacation with me. My wife's old inspiron (9100?)
> and my Dell latitude D620.
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> This works perfectly on my 9300 (but it's at home) but on my wife's
> laptop NOTHING happens. That's right, nada.

You might have to ask Apple about this one. Unless perhaps one of your
function keys or arrow keys is dead.
You can test this easy enough by using alt-f4 to close an application,
ctrl-a to select All text, and the arrow keys to navigate within a
document.

> However, on the D620 it's even worse. The control-alt-left-arrow
> sequence rotates the screen 90 degrees counter clockwise!!
>
> Can someone pls help me here.
>
> Yirg

Well, ctrl, alt, up arrow will fix that. :)

Anyway, look at the display properties, dig around in the "advanced"
menu, and see if the screen rotate keystrokes can be disabled.

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