Screen rotation on tablet with rescue media
I have a Nextbook tablet windows 10 pc. When using the startup recovery manager or the rescue media builder (both winPE and linux versions), acronis comes in portrait mode (the GUI is rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise). There are no winpe options to correct the display. I tried vga=ask on the kernel command line but I'm not even certain that is valid in 2019. For the life of me, I cannot get to any settings that would rotate the display. This particular model tablet has always been problematic in the screen rotation department. I know how to fix it in windows 10, but the WinPE environment that is built for rescue media only has a command prompt... and even that has limited functionality. Any ideas on how I can rotate the screen 90 degrees?


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Here is what I ended up doing... it isn't perfect, but definitely good enough. Everything I have booted in this table pre-OS comes in portrait mode... grub2, a bunch of other iso's etc. I can deal with that if whatever boots can be rotated. I used MVP_ATI_PEBuilder to build a windows PE rescue iso. I then found a utility called MultiMonitorTool.exe. I wrote a small .bat file with MultiMonitorTool.exe /SetOrientation 1 270 in it and put both files in the Extras folder. Once the environment loads, I go into extras and run the bat file, the screen flips and everything works. I don't do it automatically because I don't want it flipping on my non-tablet PCs.
I suspect WinRE may have worked as well, but my issue there was that the image created was bigger than the USB drive I was using. The PE Builder image was about 500mb.
Bobbo_3C0X1... thanks for writing such a useful tool.
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Scott, sounds like a great work-a-round! I love portable apps that you can launch in WinPE! I have a similar .vbs script I just use on my Asus T200 since it seems to want to always launch with numlock off and causes issues typing. Basically it's just a desktop shortcut I can run to quickly enable numlock since the FN key doesn't work on that system in WinPE without loading up a larger set of drivers.
Yeah, WinPE is a little larger in size, but it can be useful for a lot of stuff. 16GB thumb drives are dirt cheap on Amazon - make the leap :)
Mustang deserves a lot of the credit on the MVP tool. We split time developing it, but he's maintaining it far more than I am these days.
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