Screen Rotation on INTEL graphics cards

[tobyhughes]

I have made an MSI patch to prevent the CTRL+ALT+UP / DOWN / LEFT /RIGHT hotkey(s). It disables the intel regkey for screen rotation (as found in advanced display).

patch_to_prevent_screen_rotation.zip

[MkII]

What a nice bloke you are!

 

Cheers!

[vcrrr]

THNX!!!

 

This is just what I was looking for!!

[elsiegee40]

Thank you!

[zag]

I just remove the intel tray application from the registry run location.

[maniac]

I do the same as ittech, if you disable the igfxtray utility from running at startup, it stops all the shortcuts working and gets rid of the trayicon too.

 

Still good job, as it will patch any machines I may have missed doing this to.

 

Cheers,

 

Mike.

[Joanne]

is there one for an nvidia chipset that anyone knows of?

[EduTech]

Thanks for that, i downloaded it and run the patch... it said it had finished so i did a reboot on the machine and it never worked..

 

Only needing this as the Tech that done the images forgot to remove it before sending the image up to the server.. so trying to save myself some time and do it an easy way instead of going round doing it manually.

 

Cheers

 

James.

[markwilliamson2001]

I managed to stop this by preventing hkmd.exe being run by students as part of a software restriction policy. This also stopped any other random hot key apps running as well!

[EduTech]

Oh Right Hmm, Might try that at some point.

 

James.

[contink]

Same experience here... It doesn't work for me using Win2k3... Looking at it, it seems it's a CC3 based MSI which might explain the issue.

 

Thanks to everyone else for the pointer though...

[EduTech]

Ah so thats why it dont work then.. thanks for that i never knew..

 

Anyhow will try some of the other things that people have said.

 

Cheers

 

James.

[ajubenjamin]

Thanks for the scrren rotation fix. But the kids can still rtate by right clicking on the desktop. Using graphics properties.

[ricki]

Hi

 

I stop intel motherboard screen rotate through gpo and path rules have a look here http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows/26147-prevent-startup-items-group-policy.html Its not perfect but it does the job. If you find what programs do it for an nvidea please could you let me know what they are and I will block them too.

 

Thanks for all your help.

 

Richard

[ICT_GUY]

AWWWW Another minor head ache solved! w000000t!

[liljon42]

Intel have a .reg file you can run to remove the Intel options from the right-click context menu

 

Graphics - Removing the custom desktop right-click context menu

[Mavericks_ghost]

Hi Guys

 

We have about 300+ Optiplex 745 from Dell and the students have discovered the screen rotation on the intel graphics cards

 

I've blocked them from being able to use the igfxtray program, which seems to disable the hotkeys from working, through group policy as well as an admin template that disables the use of the hotkeys at the machine level, it seems to have worked (though only 2 days in is probably a bit early to tell).

 

What we've had in the past though is where the screen has been rotated it can't be corrected. We (ICT support technicians) use the hotkeys, or graphics properties on the context menu, and the computer promptly rights the screen then resets. After rebooting back into XP it still has the turned screen.

We've tried taking the graphics driver out and putting it back in as well as the graphics software to no effect, which leaves us with the one option of reimaging the computer from our WDS server. Which does put it right but it's a bit drastic for a supposed simple problem.

 

What I was wondering is if anyone else has encountered this and whether there's a solution to it (other than an hour long re-image process)? Any help infact would be appreciated.

 

Mavericks Ghost

[Pumaedition]

Intel have a .reg file you can run to remove the Intel options from the right-click context menu

 

Graphics - Removing the custom desktop right-click context menu

 

Can this be run at startup of the machine then using a script?

[cookie_monster]

Just thought i'd add that i've been fighting this for a while and removing the tray seemed to work but then I noticed that (as stated above) right clicking the desktop activated igfxsrvc.exe. I banned this with software restriction policy which works very well, the only problem is that you see allot of errors in the event log this isn't a problem for the users it just bugs me

 

I'll take a look at that reg patch from Intel now to see if that improves the situation.

[lionsl2005]

Thanks for the scrren rotation fix. But the kids can still rtate by right clicking on the desktop. Using graphics properties.

 

disable the right click option.

[cookie_monster]

disable the right click option.

 

 

We've just enabled the right click option after a survey of staff and students, it's not been an issue untill this and I think the issue will be solved by the Intel reg patch.

[sonofsanta]

disable the right click option.

 

No right-click just frustrates everyone, and usually interferes pretty thoroughly with IT lessons / ECDL courses that rely on using context menus. I understand why it's done and what it prevents, but unless there was a serious risk at hand I hate doing this.

 

Remember having to waste many a man hour dealing with this issue at my last school - wish I'd known about this site back then to have implemented some of these fixes, as teachers could never remember the key combo themselves no matter how many times I told them!

[cookie_monster]

Can this be run at startup of the machine then using a script?

 

 

You prob have this sorted by now but for information purposes I've now managed to get this working save it as a .vbs file you can run it as a startup script. This stops the tray, hotkeys and right click.

 

 

On Error Resume Next

Dim WshShell, bKey
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

WshShell.RegDelete "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\IgfxTray"
WshShell.RegDelete "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\HotKeysCmds"
WshShell.RegDelete "HKCR\Directory\Background\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\igfxcui\"

set WSHSHell = Nothing

wscript.quit

[goodhead]

i have used an adm file that i think was posted here. Worked a treat with rotating screens.

Now have discovered a problem.

 

The MFL dept use hot keys to do accents in apps. I think my introduction of the adm that stops use of intel hot keys has brocken this for them.

Theres no point me using intels reg file as we disable right click for students.

 

So need a solution that disables the hotkeys without turning off hotkeys.

[aki]

this is good but cant they still access the ctr+alt+f12 ?