Issue: How to Disable Screen Auto-Rotation in Windows 8
Resolution:
Using the GUI:
Step 1: Right click on Desktop–>Click on Screen resolution
Step 2: On the screen resolution window unchecked the tick mark and click on apply
Refer below screenshot.
Using the Registry editor:
Step 1: Press Win+R button in keyboard and in run prompt type ‘REGEDIT’ –> Press OK
Step 2: When registry editor open navigate below path
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AutoRotation
Step 3: On the right hand side you will see a value called Enable, right click on it and select modify from the context menu.
Step 4: If your device currently has rotation enabled it will be set to 1. To disable it, change it to 0 then click OK. If it’s not reflecting follow below step:
Press Win+R button in keyboard –> type CMD and click on OK –> in the command prompt type
‘gpupdate /force’
“Yours – Ravi Theja Madisetty”
