We have some students who have figured out how to rotate the screen using either the hotkey combination or right click context menu. It's easy to fix but it's time consuming because no matter how many times I tell people how to fix it there's always someone that will come up to me.
Now I need two things. First, is there a way to disable screen rotation? Second, I need a script to reset the screen rotation to normal on logon and logoff.
The solutions need to be able to be deployed from a Win2003 server to WinXP clients. I have way too many computers to go through by hand to uncheck enable hot keys on the intel control panel.
I wrestled with the same problem. My solution was to lock down the control panel and disable the Intel program. I disabled the Intel program with a startup script that ran a registry update:
startup.bat:
Students you say? Sounds like a job for Windows SteadyState.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/sharedaccess/default.mspx
Alternatively, you could uninstall the Intel driver package and use the standard VGA driver.
Can you use group policy to lock down the display settings? That will keep their fingers out of the control panel all together. That should also disable the hotkeys that perform the action. Anytime you need to change settings on mass quanities of systems group policy is the best way to manage them.
reg add HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ialm\Device0 /v Display1_EnableRotation /t REG_BINARY /d 0 /f
Enter Regedit:
Enter: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video
Find Key: Display1_EnableRotation=1 Change for =0
Save
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