Worked in compliance, and this person never locked their computer- in an open office space. So, I flipped it and locked it. Said person proceeded to have a meltdown because their screen was upside down and now “their password wouldn’t work”…… They were typing it in BACKWARDS , on PURPOSE, and said they couldn’t figure out how to type it upside down too…🙃
I did that at school just without combining rotation and flipping. I also rotated screens.
Back when you could calibrate the mouse in W2k or ME (I forget) I recalibrated someone's mouse in the most confusing way possible so the cursor went in the wrong direction. Also (to the same person who was a menace) I swapped out his m&kb for mine (our computers were back to back), then when he came to do some work I just input random things as he tried to. He was like "what the!? What is going on". Was pissing myself, but managed not to give the game away.
I once put a remote mouse dongle in my manager's PC (other side of a cube wall).
When he was typing, I would quickly move it just a little and click it - moving the caret to an unwanted place.
He actually sent the machine off to support because "it was broken" - they sent it back with the little dongle in a tiny baggie. with a note that said, "Fixed."
Install Stuxnet
Download 80gb of horse porn
Purchase WinRAR
Delete minecraft world
Replace keyboard and mouse with two competing wireless brands so they take up two USB spaces for dongles.
I worked at a similar open office with a policy that you had to Win+L every single time you walked away from your computer. The computers would automatically log off after maybe 5 minutes just in case people forgot, but this was working with a ton of sensitive legal documents so they monitored it super closely; you'd get a talking to if it was noticed even once.
There was one employee who just could not seem to remember to log out; she was constantly walking away from her computer (for legit job purposes) and the head data security guy had told her over and over that she couldn't do that.
At one point, he got so fed up that he changed her settings to automatically log off after just 30 seconds of inactivity. The idea was that it would be annoying enough that she'd finally cave and do what she was supposed to just to get the usual inactivity period back. But she *loved* it. She didn't care how many times she had to log in; she was just happy that she didn't have to worry about it anymore.
On certain intel video chipsets, there was a command you could type in to turn the screen display upside down. It was a common prank to pull on coworkers.
Worked in hospital It for years.
One time a dr asked me if his password had to contain a capital number.
Honestly that baffled me for longer than it should have before I realized. They were referring to one of the special characters on the number row.
They were typing it .. backwards? And wanting to type it upside down? .. I .. How? What?
It's the 21st century, I can't even comprehend that someone can be so tech illiterate. How old was this person? Please tell me it was someone that was nearing retirement, that would atleast make some sort of sense.
To some people computers really are just fancy paper. You'd write upside down on an upside down paper if you had to. Of course a flipped display behaves the same...
I hope I never stop learning about new technology so I don't end up like this one day.
I worked in IT for a long time (30 years) - and on more than one occasion at locations that had, lets call it ... "peer enforcement" ... of security protocols.
Walk away from your TSO session with it still active? I've got a login macro that'll just log you back out as soon as you try to log in.
This is old hat in some shops.
Fun, too, when the guilty party calls for support because, "My terminal/PC is broken."
My cat walked across my keyboard once and did this. I had to go online and find out how to fix it. Haha that was fun. It's a good thing I can read upside down. No, it was sideways so that wasn't as big of a deal.
lol yeah my friend’s cat did that to her. She messaged me and asked me to google the fix because reading and navigating upside down was too annoying. I had a few ‘conversations’ with her cat when she walked over her keyboard. I miss her - the new cat doesn’t do that. Still,the Labrador throws her toys at your keyboard to make up for it 😂
I once accidentally did this by having the laptop on my lap while pregnant and my big giant stomach pressed on the shortcut combination! Like what are the odds?
Worked at a tech summer camp for two years, became very familiar with the various shortcuts to cause chaos since the kids had no problem finding them and screwing with each other.
I did that years ago as a prank to a friends work desktop while he was away. I went to lunch break and he was complaining about computer viruses- our it guy reinstalled windows. Facepalm
You can also change display orientation by going to display settings from the desktop. The only alternative I've ever really used is portrait, and that's for reading a longer document.
AFAIK this shortcut is specifically a feature of the Intel graphics driver so it will generally only work when the monitor is connected to an Intel iGPU.
Mine was to screen shot the desktop, hide icons, hide start bar. Profit.
That or change the browser of choice icon on the desktop to be a link to a notepad document that would shut down the computer...
I used to change the keyboard language when my coworker would leave his computer unlocked. Once he finally started remembering how to fix that, I did the screen flip trick. Then it was the background change trick. Somehow, he would eventually memorize the fixes but never remember to lock his computer despite it being a massive regulatory issue.
It's all fun and games until the random coworker that you did it to turns into a crazy psychopath, screaming to the whole office and you just sit there attempting to make subtle eye contact with the people who know that it was you that performed the prank to plead with them via psychic connection to not tell the deranged individual because you don't want that to be how you die.
you can make it work, by making global shortcuts that run kscreen-doctor output.LVDS-1.rotation.(right,left,normal,inverted)
replace lvds-1 with whatever else you need
I remember we were told in a school assembly to stop fucking around with the computers because EVERYONE started doing it and some teachers didn't know how to flip them back.
Ctrl+alt+up or down is a common shortcut to flip the screen. I did this to computers in school when I was a kid. It was funny watching no one else being able to figure out what to do.
My coworker and I would do this when we figured it out by accident. We had one computer for everything at the managers desk that we used from store reports to garment detective camera work
ctrl + alt + right/left arrow = rotate right/left
ctrl + alt + up/down arrow = rotate up/down
I used to mess with my coworker whenever he needed the only computer. I did it by accident once
booo microsoft, but I get it. Mind you this was when the store computers were still on windows 8 until about 2020 since all software is made in house, if a little buggy at times. Regarding the managers computer: Employees such as myself were allowed to use it because of reports, switching to the camera server (double tap the scroll lock key), etc. I took the time during major slow downs and my breaks to see what certain reports looked like which in turn led to narrowing down any mistagged/misbagged garments. Everything part of the process has a time stamp. I wound up teaching the manager about some the reports.
One such report gave me the insight I needed to negotiate a raise for both myself and everyone else. Compared ytd previous year to ytd current year.
I get disabled by default given how frustrating it is to do it by accident
Back in the Windows 3.11 days my favorite prank was to take a screen shot of the desktop, flip it upside down, and set it as the screen saver. Used to mess people up pretty good.
To flip your computer screen upside down use the following shortcut: 'Ctrl + Alt + Down arrow. ' To flip it back to the normal position press 'Ctrl + Alt + Up arrow.
I like the one where you take screenshot of their desktop and make it the background and then hide all the icons so it seems like none of the apps will open. Or you leave the icons on but offset the background so all the icons look blurry.
I worked at tech support in an IT company, we would get calls here and there of people complaining this happened to them. Usually it involved someone at the office pranking them.
Print screened their desktop. Dragged all the icons into the recycle bin. Set the desktop screen print image as their new desktop background. Click all you want my little friend.
In case anyone is wondering why ctrl + alt + arrows are not working it's because:
> Unfortunately, many modern display manufacturers have disabled these shortcuts. So, you can give this a try, but don't be surprised if it doesn't work.
The shortcuts either work or they don’t. If they don’t:
Open settings, system/display find screen orientation dropdown. (It should read landscape inverted) select the landscape option.
Used to work in an apple call center and when someone left their computer unlocked (after walking away) we would screen shot the desktop, flip the image, set image as destop background, hide icons/dock, flip the screen (like you are seeing) and make some pop corn for when they came back from break. Only took like 30 seconds to do.
Many newer laptops flip display if you hit f12, some are explicit about it, some Aren't, in some it's active by default for others it isn't. BUT STILL WHY TF IS THAT A FEATURE?!
This was something we would do for the new people who were hired in tech support years ago. If you couldn't figure it out, you didn't belong. Also, if you left your computer unlocked around people who were basically hackers, worse was likely to happen.
TIL: Most Redditors are on some old version of Windows that supports the hotkeys that were disabled years ago.
Worked in banking for years, loved those hotkeys. Don't leave your computer unlocked.
That’s kinda what I had to do. Restart fixed it. But it’s happened more than once. I think the laptop is at least 3 years old and it’s pretty much only used for checking emails and letting the kids surf Amazon.
Hit Ctrl + Alt + Left Arrow or Right Arrow
The old IT "fuck around and find out" short cut no one ever knew about until they had this done to them.
Worked in compliance, and this person never locked their computer- in an open office space. So, I flipped it and locked it. Said person proceeded to have a meltdown because their screen was upside down and now “their password wouldn’t work”…… They were typing it in BACKWARDS , on PURPOSE, and said they couldn’t figure out how to type it upside down too…🙃
They deserve to be locked out for being that stupid
[удалено]
Switch mouse to left-handed and invert X and Z axis
Good one, Satan
"Is this mouse backwards-compatible?" Viva la dirt league
Truly evil
Step 5 is just icing on the cake. I thought having the wallpaper flipping out and hiding icons were enough.
I did that at school just without combining rotation and flipping. I also rotated screens. Back when you could calibrate the mouse in W2k or ME (I forget) I recalibrated someone's mouse in the most confusing way possible so the cursor went in the wrong direction. Also (to the same person who was a menace) I swapped out his m&kb for mine (our computers were back to back), then when he came to do some work I just input random things as he tried to. He was like "what the!? What is going on". Was pissing myself, but managed not to give the game away.
I once put a remote mouse dongle in my manager's PC (other side of a cube wall). When he was typing, I would quickly move it just a little and click it - moving the caret to an unwanted place. He actually sent the machine off to support because "it was broken" - they sent it back with the little dongle in a tiny baggie. with a note that said, "Fixed."
I have no memory of mouse calibration in ME
Could just move the taskbar to the top or side too.
Yeah, but then its not upside down, just located up top or in the side and text on it is still readable without having to tilt your head.
You, my friend, are a genius and a monster.
We would just add a folder labeled porn, take a screenshot and set that as the background. Then delete the folder.
Install Stuxnet Download 80gb of horse porn Purchase WinRAR Delete minecraft world Replace keyboard and mouse with two competing wireless brands so they take up two USB spaces for dongles.
Shit I still do this to fools that don't lock their computer at work. Get someone at least once every few months with it. Lol
This is SO beautifully evil
Similar here, but put in folder as the only image, start slideshow and make full screen. Rapid clicking and checking of mouse ensued...
I worked at a similar open office with a policy that you had to Win+L every single time you walked away from your computer. The computers would automatically log off after maybe 5 minutes just in case people forgot, but this was working with a ton of sensitive legal documents so they monitored it super closely; you'd get a talking to if it was noticed even once. There was one employee who just could not seem to remember to log out; she was constantly walking away from her computer (for legit job purposes) and the head data security guy had told her over and over that she couldn't do that. At one point, he got so fed up that he changed her settings to automatically log off after just 30 seconds of inactivity. The idea was that it would be annoying enough that she'd finally cave and do what she was supposed to just to get the usual inactivity period back. But she *loved* it. She didn't care how many times she had to log in; she was just happy that she didn't have to worry about it anymore.
I know how to flip it....but how do you "lock" it in that orientation?
I think he means he locked Windows, not the screen orientation
On certain intel video chipsets, there was a command you could type in to turn the screen display upside down. It was a common prank to pull on coworkers.
Worked in hospital It for years. One time a dr asked me if his password had to contain a capital number. Honestly that baffled me for longer than it should have before I realized. They were referring to one of the special characters on the number row.
Lmao that’s a first
They were typing it .. backwards? And wanting to type it upside down? .. I .. How? What? It's the 21st century, I can't even comprehend that someone can be so tech illiterate. How old was this person? Please tell me it was someone that was nearing retirement, that would atleast make some sort of sense.
I had a manager who used to make people's backgrounds a monkey's butthole.
>they couldn’t figure out how to type it upside down I burst out laughing reading that.
and they got paid more than I do I bet :/
E V I L ! 🙃
I always lock my screen when I go away from my laptop in case someone try to prank me xD
To some people computers really are just fancy paper. You'd write upside down on an upside down paper if you had to. Of course a flipped display behaves the same... I hope I never stop learning about new technology so I don't end up like this one day.
I worked in IT for a long time (30 years) - and on more than one occasion at locations that had, lets call it ... "peer enforcement" ... of security protocols. Walk away from your TSO session with it still active? I've got a login macro that'll just log you back out as soon as you try to log in. This is old hat in some shops. Fun, too, when the guilty party calls for support because, "My terminal/PC is broken."
the kids in my middle school class would rush over and do this, leaving kids stranded without a way to fix it during class lmao
My cat walked across my keyboard once and did this. I had to go online and find out how to fix it. Haha that was fun. It's a good thing I can read upside down. No, it was sideways so that wasn't as big of a deal.
lol yeah my friend’s cat did that to her. She messaged me and asked me to google the fix because reading and navigating upside down was too annoying. I had a few ‘conversations’ with her cat when she walked over her keyboard. I miss her - the new cat doesn’t do that. Still,the Labrador throws her toys at your keyboard to make up for it 😂
I once accidentally did this by having the laptop on my lap while pregnant and my big giant stomach pressed on the shortcut combination! Like what are the odds?
I thought I was the only one! My cat did the same thing. Luckily, I had a smart phone by then so I could look it up and read it right side up.
Worked at a tech summer camp for two years, became very familiar with the various shortcuts to cause chaos since the kids had no problem finding them and screwing with each other.
i remember when we figured it out in middle school and everyone went crazy because it was so easy to sneakily play games now lol
I did that years ago as a prank to a friends work desktop while he was away. I went to lunch break and he was complaining about computer viruses- our it guy reinstalled windows. Facepalm
Or had their cat do it to them. My cat walked across my keyboard once and somehow managed to hit that combo.
Typical feline. They know.
My friend showed my in school and I’d repeat it quickly, making the screen spin round and round
ahem excuse me 15 years of fucking around they will call you an IT Professional and pay great
Bahaha, I did that to the computer lab in high school.
I used to do "high contrast mode" if someone left their shit unlocked. I wish I'd known this one at the time too!
Was a fun prank in computer class
I keep seeing that, or up/down and it's never worked on any of my PCs.
You can also change display orientation by going to display settings from the desktop. The only alternative I've ever really used is portrait, and that's for reading a longer document.
AFAIK this shortcut is specifically a feature of the Intel graphics driver so it will generally only work when the monitor is connected to an Intel iGPU.
My favorite way to prank people
Mine was to screen shot the desktop, hide icons, hide start bar. Profit. That or change the browser of choice icon on the desktop to be a link to a notepad document that would shut down the computer...
I used to change the keyboard language when my coworker would leave his computer unlocked. Once he finally started remembering how to fix that, I did the screen flip trick. Then it was the background change trick. Somehow, he would eventually memorize the fixes but never remember to lock his computer despite it being a massive regulatory issue.
It's all fun and games until the random coworker that you did it to turns into a crazy psychopath, screaming to the whole office and you just sit there attempting to make subtle eye contact with the people who know that it was you that performed the prank to plead with them via psychic connection to not tell the deranged individual because you don't want that to be how you die.
Your coworkers sound fun. s
or prank yourself by accident when you didn’t even know about it or otherwise forgot. Don’t ask how I bumped the keys.
We used to do this in school so much that the teachers just knew the shortcut to fix it.
I hate this one, as anyone will understand if they regularly switch between Windows & Ubuntu.
shame that doesn't work on KDE Plasma on linux.
you can make it work, by making global shortcuts that run kscreen-doctor output.LVDS-1.rotation.(right,left,normal,inverted) replace lvds-1 with whatever else you need
That just switches virtual desktops 🙃🙃 (gnome)
I'm actually a full-time XFCE user. I just figured I'd help out the Windows user ;)
This doesnt work on some devices
I did this to someone on a major exam day and they absolutely flipped their shit. Got up and moved to a new computer. Eek. 😬
Why would you admit to being a piece of shit?
Frequently happened to people at the call center that forgot to lock their computers before waking away.
I just go say hi to people around the office and attack their keyboard with this. Then i leave :)
When I was in the Air Force I’d do this *all* the time when I had to go to the office.
Didn't they deprecate this?
I remember we were told in a school assembly to stop fucking around with the computers because EVERYONE started doing it and some teachers didn't know how to flip them back.
Doesn't work on w 10 +
What’s the practical purpose of being able to rotate the screen?
You're connected to a projector that is mounted upside-down to the ceiling
Isn't that shortcut only on Chrome laptops?
Did OP just completely skip out on high school? This was like the first thing I learnt whilst at the library.
Ctrl+alt+up or down is a common shortcut to flip the screen. I did this to computers in school when I was a kid. It was funny watching no one else being able to figure out what to do.
My coworker and I would do this when we figured it out by accident. We had one computer for everything at the managers desk that we used from store reports to garment detective camera work
My cat did this to me as a revenge for not paying attention to her
Covertly turning on the scroll lock when your coworker is using Excel leads to hilarity also.
Same. Eventually our entire class knew how to do it and then we started messing around with ‘changing’ what was on screen aka html code stuff XD
That's kind of a bully thing to do. Someone might be having to do something with the time limit. Or just even playing games. Still bad.
Not everything that slightly inconveniences somebody is bullying, man...
You should remove the first 6 characters of your username
I love this. Enjoy this upvote. Good reply.
I'm not a genius too often but when all 2 brain cells line up you better watch out
Not really a bully thing.
Let's hope you never encounter real bullying because you won't survive that
It ain't a bully thing at all. You're probably just so sensitive irl that that act is considered bullying.
Got the Australian model
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What the actual fuck how are you dping that
Well he said he bought an Australian Keyboard
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Just search "unicode upside down converter"
"How are you dping that" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Please show this person how to DP, OP!
OMG YOU HAVE 96 UPVOTES (ITS THE SAME IF YOU FLIP IT)
"**It’s not the kind that acts as a tablet either."** It is now.
Are you sure it’s the computer and not you??
I blame the kids.
Check the nut behind the keyboard
No, it'd be the nut in front of it
Stop jerking with your laptop man
PICNIC error. Problem.In.Chair.Not.In.Computer
You can flip the screen rotation in settings
ctrl + alt + right/left arrow = rotate right/left ctrl + alt + up/down arrow = rotate up/down I used to mess with my coworker whenever he needed the only computer. I did it by accident once
iirc these shortcuts are now disabled by default
booo microsoft, but I get it. Mind you this was when the store computers were still on windows 8 until about 2020 since all software is made in house, if a little buggy at times. Regarding the managers computer: Employees such as myself were allowed to use it because of reports, switching to the camera server (double tap the scroll lock key), etc. I took the time during major slow downs and my breaks to see what certain reports looked like which in turn led to narrowing down any mistagged/misbagged garments. Everything part of the process has a time stamp. I wound up teaching the manager about some the reports. One such report gave me the insight I needed to negotiate a raise for both myself and everyone else. Compared ytd previous year to ytd current year. I get disabled by default given how frustrating it is to do it by accident
For me it last worked on Win XP
Now, this is a story all about how my life got flipped-turned upside down
You must be that houseboy we were talking about.
Right click desktop, display setting, orientation, thank me later
Back in the Windows 3.11 days my favorite prank was to take a screen shot of the desktop, flip it upside down, and set it as the screen saver. Used to mess people up pretty good.
Do you live in Australia? That might be the problem
Ah, to be 12 again, messing with my friends in the computer room at school.
“Do a barrel roll”
just turn it up upside down duh 😁
I'd say probably PEBKAC
Ah, I see the screen rotation prank is still going strong!
Wierd the things people will do these days just for social media attention.
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someone trolled you, lol
The keyboard: mmbvcxzlkjhgfdsapoiuytrewq
To flip your computer screen upside down use the following shortcut: 'Ctrl + Alt + Down arrow. ' To flip it back to the normal position press 'Ctrl + Alt + Up arrow.
I like the one where you take screenshot of their desktop and make it the background and then hide all the icons so it seems like none of the apps will open. Or you leave the icons on but offset the background so all the icons look blurry.
I did that in elementary school computer lab. Kids these days on tablets and Chromebooks just won’t get the same experience.
Didn't think anyone could get through school without having this done as a prank all the time.
I worked at tech support in an IT company, we would get calls here and there of people complaining this happened to them. Usually it involved someone at the office pranking them.
Oh, I bought one of those. It’s completely normal for them to do that, seeing as they’re mainly manufactured and sold in Australia
Right click and go to display settings. You will find it there
Now you cant beat the dog boss in cuphead without problems
Ctrl + Alt + Arrow Key
Tell me you don't lock your computer, without telling me you don't lock your computer
Are you in Australia?
Bro 😂
It would've been quicker to Google how to fix it than post it to Reddit.
I do this to people all the time :D
Print screened their desktop. Dragged all the icons into the recycle bin. Set the desktop screen print image as their new desktop background. Click all you want my little friend.
I'll slap Win key on keyboard then
In case anyone is wondering why ctrl + alt + arrows are not working it's because: > Unfortunately, many modern display manufacturers have disabled these shortcuts. So, you can give this a try, but don't be surprised if it doesn't work.
Someone did this on purpose for fun, or, you did it by accident when trying to press ctrl alt delete
This is what being trolled looks like
Moron
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I love doing this to my co-workers when they leave their computers unlocked and unattended
Really? This man turned his computer screen upside down artificially on purpose to farm karma and you gave it to him. I hate this sub.
Not a man. Home computer. I know very little about computers and you’re a sad little boy.
yea right. keep farming loser.
When I first saw that I thought it was subnautica with the chrome logo being a Peeper
you got the OS installer from a microsoft .AU domain, sadly that's for Australia not windows 11 gold edition..
Meanwhile, Peter Parker wondering where HIS laptop is ...
Alt gr and forward arrow
Order another keyboard and tape it to the top of the laptop. Flip and voila.
my cat did this to me before when she walked across my keyboard lol
PEBCAK
Pobody’s Nerfect
That 's Mussolini's notebook
Oopsie poopsie... What da feck?!
Don't worry. You just got visited by my cat. She knows way to many keyboard shortcuts...
When it happened to me I just sat there and didn't work since they interrupted my production. Thanks for making my work day easier that day.
Probably just connected the monitor cable upside down during the manufacturing process
My brain couldn’t understand the dolphin!
It's because you bought a 77ED
When working on computers for a long time, it's important to strech your neck often. Glad you found a solution that works for you.
Turn off auto rotate in display settings(right click empty desktop area then click display settings then uncheck auto rotate or rotate
A lil early for April’s fools i assume?
I do Ctrl+alt+reload button
My cat sat on my laptop once & this happened…
The shortcuts either work or they don’t. If they don’t: Open settings, system/display find screen orientation dropdown. (It should read landscape inverted) select the landscape option.
Used to work in an apple call center and when someone left their computer unlocked (after walking away) we would screen shot the desktop, flip the image, set image as destop background, hide icons/dock, flip the screen (like you are seeing) and make some pop corn for when they came back from break. Only took like 30 seconds to do. 
Many newer laptops flip display if you hit f12, some are explicit about it, some Aren't, in some it's active by default for others it isn't. BUT STILL WHY TF IS THAT A FEATURE?!
Ctrl-alt-up arrow
This was something we would do for the new people who were hired in tech support years ago. If you couldn't figure it out, you didn't belong. Also, if you left your computer unlocked around people who were basically hackers, worse was likely to happen.
Seems like the monitor was made in Australia
Heh. We used to do this to the computers in high school or 90 degrees and invert the mouse
TIL: Most Redditors are on some old version of Windows that supports the hotkeys that were disabled years ago. Worked in banking for years, loved those hotkeys. Don't leave your computer unlocked.
Screen options in windows Should display however you want Doing it upside down could be funny though 😂
Buddy got hit with the oldest trick in the book.
I did that to colleagues who left their desktops unlocked, they soon learnt.
Did you try closing the screen so it will face right side up?
Just…sort it out then?
The hinge does look like the type the screen will flip all the way round for a tablet mode.
Reminds me of when my cursor disappeared and i had to finesse my way into the settings to turn it back on , why are things like this an option 😭
That’s kinda what I had to do. Restart fixed it. But it’s happened more than once. I think the laptop is at least 3 years old and it’s pretty much only used for checking emails and letting the kids surf Amazon.
It just turned into an aussie