Flipping Monitor Screens Works / But how about the Mouse ?

Ken

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Greetings Gadget Gurus.

I'm looking to buy a new monitor. I could really use a square one for writing. Unfortunately they only make them up to 19 inches and that's not quite enough.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0012RLOD2/?tag=absowrit-20

21 would probably due. I'd like to be able to get a good portion of a Word document page on the monitor. A 19 incher would probably get me about 2/3 or less, which is still pretty decent. Alongside of writing, I also could use a wide monitor in a way for Excel spreadsheets. I really don't care much for them though. Yesterday I seemed to have found a solution: a swiveling monitor. They make swivels that can rotate any monitor from landscape to portrait.

http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n:490624011,p_n_location_browse-bin:2722773011

Using one I could swivel a wide screen monitor and turn it into one that could accommodate an entire word document page which would be this side of awesome! Windows 7 which is what I have allows you to swivel the screen on your monitor >>control panel >> adjust screen resolution >> orientation >> portrait. It works like a charm. The mouse doesn't work though. It kinda just goes up and down. I looked into how to fix that and there really isn't a straight forward way. There's a registry file (HKey) that can be switched: 'FlipFlopWheel' setting to 1 or 0.

http://superuser.com/questions/310681/inverting-direction-of-mouse-scroll-wheel


But I don't really want to start messing around with that. Is there some solution to the problem? Thanks!

Here's a monitor that swivels. I wonder if it would solve the mouse problem?

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002C9FTXU/?tag=absowrit-20
 

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Most modern LCDs/LEDs have a swivel built-in. The mouse should work perfectly when you switch to portrait mode.

I'm thinking your mouse problems stem from trying to do portrait mode with an older monitor not designed to be used in portrait mode. A new one will be fine.
 

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... thanks Leah. You're probably right about the mouse. My monitor is several years old and also funtions as a tv. That's it's main function, I think. I'll go ahead and buy a new, swivel monitor and hope for the best. If it works I'll be really pleased!
 

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Ken, I saw one of those today on tigerdirect for about 100 bucks. (AOC I think). (Note please, not pimping tigerdirect, just happened to be where I saw it.)
 

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... thanks Williebee. Tried locating it w/o success. Tiger has a nice selection of monitors though. 20 AOC's alone.