Windows 10: My extended monitor keeps flipping back to landscape orientation

How do I stop my extended monitor from flipping to landscape orientation randomly. My extended monitor is set to portrait orientation. I had to unplug and replug it in order to move monitors around and ever since it intermittently flips back to landscape orientation. It does so every time I sleep, restart, or reboot my PC. It also does this randomly while using several different applications. I am always able to set it back to portrait orientation but it will last as little as 5 minutes before flipping again. Sometimes it lasts for hours so I expect there is something specific triggering the

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Display opens in landscape orientation, but changes to portrait flipped automatically

My issue: Upon firing up my laptop (windows 10), my log in screen will appear in landscape orientation, as is the norm. However, if I leave it for about 3-5 seconds, regardless of whether I put in my password or not, my screen orientation automatically flips
to portrait flipped.

What I've tried already:

- Going into settings and flipping orientation back to landscape. This DOES flip back to landscape and it will remain this way, until I put my laptop in sleep mode, close the lid, or shutdown. When I open back up again, my screen orientation flips again.

- Going into settings and searching for a way to change a setting, if there is one. There is none that I can tell.

- Searching around the web for an answer, however, I just come up with solutions for a flipped screen with the easy fix of changing the orientation back using the control+alt+arrow keys method or settings, both of which work temporarily until I open my laptop
again.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

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Screen Orientation

Hi Vincent,

There are shortcut keys that can be used to rotate your desktop view. One of those is
CTRL + ALT + Up arrow key. To set the desktop to its normal view, please follow the steps below:

• Right click on your desktop and select Display
  settings.
• Highlight the screen you want to change (if you have multiple monitors) and change
  Orientation between Landscape and Portrait.
• To flip the screen, select Landscape (flipped) or
  Portrait (flipped).

Should you have further questions, please let us know.