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> > > > Could possibly have done with that here

> > > We're talking about the difference between a rotating monitor where Windows is set
> > > for landscape orientation vs. portrait orientation. If all of my MAME games and
> > > pinball tables are set up for a rotating monitor vs. a fixed-position one, it's
> > > frustrating to have to do numerous workarounds to get laserdisc games to do that as
> > > well (and still not have a working scoreboard for Dragon's Lair/Space Ace). I'm not
> > > willing to commit my main monitor to portrait orientation 100% of the time when
> > > none of my regular applications are practical that way.
> >
> >
> > You know this seemed like such an easy thing to remedy that got me thinking. I can't
> > find anything on a simple microswitch setup,
> > which would seem like a simple implementation to trip one of the apps such as those
> > listed here:
> >
> > https://superuser.com/questions/447155/h...reen-in-windows
> >
> > Seems such a simple idea, has anyone come across or designed such a setup ?
> >
> > Edit: I mean hell if that little app works seems like adding the following to the
> > beginning and end of the batch files would do the same job.
> >
> > C:\Display.exe /rotate:90
> >
> > C:\Display.exe /rotate:0
>
>
> Thanks for the tip! Works better than what I had.

As there seemed to be little interest in feedback here, I shared this info back to the dev, this little utility might just prove useful for others:

http://noeld.com/programs.asp#Display