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On a dual-monitor setup, how can just one of the two be rotated?

On a dual-monitor setup, how can just one of the two be rotated?

I just got a second widescreen monitor at work, and I'm planning on setting them up so that I can have Eclipse open on one and Firefox in the other. I

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Guest [Entry]

"This is the solution I ended up using. It's probably specific to my graphics card, but it's probably at least similar to other cards' methods.

-Go to the regular display settings window (open a context menu from the desktop and select Properties)
-Go to the settings tab and click on the monitor to rotate
-Click Advanced
-Select the graphics card's tab -- in my case, the Quadro tab -- and choose the rotation menu item -- in my case, ""NVRotate"" from the popout menu
-Select the radio button for the desired orientation and click Apply"
Guest [Entry]

"The free product iRotate handles multiple monitors:

iRotate provides convenient access to
the native rotation capabilities
present in contemporary display
drivers, via a popup menu accessible
from the system tray and optional
system-wide hotkeys. It's no longer
necessary to resort to bloated Windows
hacks, additional software layers or
phantom drivers to achieve content
rotation. In most instances, support
is now available directly from the
graphics chip manufacturers, who
continuously improve and apply quality
assurance to their drivers.

By leveraging the native rotation
capabilities now provided by ATI,
nVidia, Intel, Matrox, S3, XGI and
others, iRotate offers exceptional
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the entire iRotate package, including
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weighs in at only 125kb. And like all
EnTech graphics utilities, iRotate
supports multiple graphics cards from
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system from Windows 98 to Vista."
Guest [Entry]

"@thiliana R’s answer is great. Thanks a lot.

His answer was for Windows 10. I built on his answer and show the difference for Windows 7 here.

Method 1

Right click on your desktop, and click on Screen Resolution:
Choose Advanced Settings
Click on `Intel HD Graphics Control Pane
Under Display: select ‘Digital Display`
Under Rotation: select ‘Rotate to 90 degrees`

Method 2:
1. Right click on your desktop, and select Graphics Options

Select Rotation from the popup window
Select Digital Display
Select Rotate to 90 degrees

I couldn’t get the Cntrl+Alt +Arrow to work on my Windows 7 machine."
Guest [Entry]

This stuff's in your drivers, assuming you run windows, so simply install them. You may have to go through the card's control thingy (As in, Catalyst for ATI, or the nVidia control panel) instead of the windows dialogue, I did.
Guest [Entry]

Follow thilina's advice until you get to the monitor page. Click "Graphics Properties", the button with the Intel blue chip on the left side. Go to the rotation area. Make sure you are on your 2nd monitor on the dropdown menu. Rotate it. Boom. Done.