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Windows 7 Home Premium, Catalyst Control Center.

Without any apparent reason, after booting my PC, I got this little balloon "HD 4600 Drivers updated". I did not install any new cards or drivers or anything.

But now, when I try to select an entire word by pressing Ctrl + Shift + ← / → my screen flips left to right and upside down.

Where can I disable this annoying shortcut?

OR

Any other way of selecting the entire word?

There is no option for this in Catalyst Control Center.

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I just ran into this exact issue, and found the solution. I use CTRL+ALT+DOWN to duplicate a line of text in Eclipse, so when it flipped my screen I was somewhat perplexed :) My OS is Windows 7 64-bit and here is where the hotkeys can be edited or disabled.

  1. Open Control Panel
  2. Click on "Appearance and Personalization"
  3. Click on "Display"
  4. Click on "Change Display Settings" in the left
  5. Click on "Advanced Settings"
  6. Click on "Intel Graphics and Media Control Panel" tab **
  7. Click on "Graphics Properties" button
  8. Select "Advanced Mode" and click "OK"
  9. Click on "Options and Support" in the bottom-left of the dialog

And voila! You can now change or disable the hotkeys.

This is specific to Intel graphics cards, and if your video card is not Intel then this tab will not be there and the instructions from this point onward will not be useful!

Screenshot of screen where the hotkeys can be edited or disabled:

Screenshot of screen where the hotkeys can be edited or disabled

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If you have an Intel graphics processor, you can right-click on your desktop and select Graphics Options > Hot Keys > Disable:

Screenshot

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Information provided by the asker in a question edit:

Killing a program called "SoftOSM" prevents the shortcut from causing the screen to flip.

DMA57361
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you can often select a word by doubleclicking on it, triple clicking to select a whole paragraph. You can also allegedly (i run intel and nvidia mostly) change the key combo from ATI catalyst control center.

Journeyman Geek
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you display hotkeys are enabled , right click on the desktop , the context menu should have an option to disable it , else go to your graphics cards control panel and disable it

Shekhar
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If you have an AMD video card:

  • right click on desktop, choose "AMD VISION Engine Control Center" (or otherwise get in there)
  • on the control center, top right there is a "preferences" button that has white text. click it and choose "hot keys"
  • you can easily disable or reassign the screen rotation hot keys

Frankly just needing to do this shows that some team at AMD really screwed up. Anyhow at least they had the good sense to all customization.

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