Reply to post: Re: Upsetting non-techies can be hard

A flash of inspiration sees techie get dirty to fix hospital's woes

Luiz Abdala
Coffee/keyboard

Re: Upsetting non-techies can be hard

"because a random key combination gets knocked and there is no visible way of getting things back to normal."

Oh yesss.... let me get that bit and run with it.

Try hitting Ctrl or Shift 5 times or more (even in Windows 10 perhaps?) and Windows WILL freak out, if you have updated from the previous Winz... enter the accessibility options to disable and all that...

Now mix it with old-school Quake and Doom gameplay, that used to involve several presses of these keys... and disabling it becomes your top priority.

Adding insult to injury, some Intel Graphics also had keyboard shortcuts to rotate the screen, something like ctrl+alt+arrow keys. The single monitor ever that would pivot 90 degrees was a Dell one, one that not many people still have these days...

...and I have seen more than one monitor upside-down, almost making me spill my coffee every time I was called to solve THAT...

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