Ctrl alt up arrow not working in windows 10 - How to fix [Solved]

Ctrl+alt+up arrow not working in windows 10 - How to fix tutorial that's what we gonna

see in this post - Works on Windows 10 Creators Update, Windows 10

Anniversary Update, and other editions of Windows like Windows 10 earlier builds like Aug 2015

and Nov 2015 builds.

In our last post we had seen how to resize the start screen and how to resize the taskbar in

windows 10. In this post let's see howto fix ctrl+alt+arrow keys not working in windows 10

Today, one of my friend's brother who loves to have fun with windows features faced an problem.

The thing happened when he do the popular trick of changing the screen leftwards, right side,

rotating the screen using the arrow keys...

The ctrl alt and left arrow keys and ctrl alt right arrow keys worked great, but the ctrl alt and up

arrow keys failed to work.. He was very afraid as he thought that his bro will scold him, so he called

me and enquired about whether an solution is available..

I tried couple of things but most of them failed except one method, which i'm gonna show in this post..

Do i installed any software ??

No, i just changed an setting inside the settings app

What option did i changed and how to change in my PC?

Just follow the below steps

How to enable ctrl+alt+arrow key in Windows 10

1) Open settings

[Helpful link : How to open settings using different methods in Windows 10]

2) Click on System

3) It will open a new window with display as first option on the left pane..

if not, then click on the display tab on the left pane..

4) Now, on your right pane you will see customize your display under that, you will see various

options look for an option named " Orientation"

Ctrl alt up arrow not working in windows 10 - How to fix [Solved]


5) Under that, there will be a button to customize like portrait and landscape..

Click on Landscape on that option. or just click detect/identify

That's it..

You have done..✌✌✌

You will see your display back to normal, which means upside down will be revert to normal.

This method helped to my friend's bro in reverting his laptop back to normal.

I hope it helps for you too..


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