I personally use no mouse while operating with my thinkpad, I know it may be annoying for some people.

I am used to so many keyboard shortcuts under Windows instead of using mouse (that it successfully made me frustated at my first time using MacBook). As for the mouse function, I only use the red trackpoint provided in the thinkpad.

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 Well, What I’m going to share in this posting is that I was not sure what had happened when
the workspace(monitor display) dimmed for a while and then all the things’re sideways, including the mouse did work sideways as well. A-90 degree! Hey, I’m not using tablet PC! LOLI bent my neck orientation as well, it cricked for about half an hour finding out what had happened by accessing what I could fix with the display control panel setting and did asking the google.

I also did shutdown, restart and unattached the battery of the thinkpad, but it didn’t work at all. At the same time, I was wondering if it’s a virus, because I downloaded few softwares. (but,wait.. I have updated my AV at that day, huhu..)

Aha, I finally found the answer : it’s another shortcut that I never known before, and now I name it as stupid windows features? It’s Ctrl+Alt direction key that changes the screen orientation.
Eg. Ctrl-Alt-Up – right side up
Ctrl-Alt-Right – 90 degrees
Ctrl-Alt-Down – 180 degrees
Ctrl-Alt-Left – 270 degrees
Isn’t it nice? Try it guys! Enjoy your adventurous exciting working with fake tablet-PC-to-be!haha..
Tracing back, it was so possibly that at the instant panic and confusion moment, I was unintentionally pressing those pads as I used Ctrl+Right to skip one word repetitively.

Site that help me fix the problem
Keyboard shortcut