Help - Cat's Meddled with Laptop Settings!

talktidy · Feb 3, 2018

Went to get a cup of coffee. Came back and cat was sitting on my laptop keyboard. Sodface has somehow changed my screen so it's in portrait aspect and not the usual landscape..

Anyone know how to fix this?

I seem to remember I inadvertently did this in work and it was a quick key combo to correct, but i cannot for the life of me remember what it was.

Maggie Maxwell · Feb 3, 2018

CTRL+ALT+Up arrow, allegedly

talktidy · Feb 3, 2018

Maggie Maxwell said:
CTRL+ALT+Up arrow, allegedly

Worked like a charm. Thank you!

AW Admin · Feb 3, 2018

talktidy said:
Worked like a charm. Thank you!

Write it down on paper and stick it near your computer.

It'll happen again because cats.

cornflake · Feb 3, 2018

No appreciation that the cat knew how to do that and you didn't?

Just wait til next time then. She'll show you.

AW Admin · Feb 3, 2018

cornflake said:
Just wait til next time then. She'll show you.

Exactly. Cats.

Marissa D · Feb 3, 2018

Especially after you called her Sodface. There's no telling what she'll do to your settings next time.

talktidy · Feb 3, 2018

Marissa D said:
Especially after you called her Sodface. There's no telling what she'll do to your settings next time.

Probably extort a nicer brand of cat food.

Marissa D · Feb 3, 2018

That, and mess with your color settings so that everything looks bilious.

Sage · Feb 3, 2018

If not cats, then kids. The 17-month-old loved pressing keys on my keyboard and somehow brought up a mode where the computer dictated what I was doing on it. It was fun figuring out how to undo, while it obnoxiously told me my every step.

Marissa D · Feb 3, 2018

What really happened, Sage, was that the cat told the 17-month-old what to do. Definitely in cahoots.

Sage · Feb 3, 2018

He is a talker, and she is in awe of him.

frimble3 · Feb 3, 2018

Cat's just been waiting for someone with nimble little fingers who will obey it's every order/suggestion. When you find Amazon sending you boxes of catfood, you'll know who to blame.

Sage · Feb 3, 2018

What will really be dangerous is when she figures out she has to say "Hey" before "Google" when talking to Google Home. Because she so wants to.

mccardey · Feb 3, 2018

Cats.

When you could have a dog.

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Srsly.

talktidy · Feb 3, 2018

mccardey said:
Cats.

When you could have a dog.

<

Srsly.

Well, she was my mother's. I adopted her when my mother went into hospital and then residential care.

I love dogs, too, but I cannot exercise them.

mccardey · Feb 3, 2018

talktidy said:
Well, she was my mother's. I adopted her when my mother went into hospital and then residential care.

Well that seems fair.

talktidy said:
I love dogs, too, but I cannot exercise them.

I cannot exorcise cats. Although somebody should.

Layla Nahar · Feb 3, 2018

aaahhh! Darling pussums! give her a nice cuddle for me

Marissa D · Feb 3, 2018

Or bunnies. Bunnies are the ideal pet for writers.

(Except when they decide it's time to play with their jingly toys, because they lurrrrrve their jingly toys.)

Layla Nahar · Feb 3, 2018

Marissa D said:
(Except when they decide it's time to play with their jingly toys, because they lurrrrrve their jingly toys.)

Oh - do they??

Marissa D · Feb 3, 2018

Yup. A lot. They have a marked fondness for toys that make noise.

mccardey · Feb 3, 2018

Chickens.

1. Dogs.

2. Chickens.

3. Horses.

nowhere. Cats.

What?? I'm just saying.

talktidy · Feb 4, 2018

mccardey said:
Chickens.

1. Dogs.

2. Chickens.

3. Horses.

nowhere. Cats.

What?? I'm just saying.

I myself am partial to chickens. They roast up a treat with a nice bit of lemon and a few herbs.

Marissa D · Feb 4, 2018

I have a secret ambition to try my hand at keeping a few chickens. But there are a lot of predators around where I live (foxes, coyotes, fisher cats, mink--back around 1900 there was a mink farm in town, and the little critters escaped and naturalized) so it stays an ambition.

talktidy · Mar 11, 2018

Would you believe she did it again! Thanks again Maggie Maxwell.

Help - Cat's Meddled with Laptop Settings!

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Maggie Maxwell

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cornflake

practical experience, FTW

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Sage

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frimble3

Heckuva good sport

Sage

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Layla Nahar

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Marissa D

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