HD Graphics 530 No Screen Rotation Hotkey

[ide]

Hello,

I have a small issue with my laptop, XPS 15 9550 (Core i7 6700 HQ with Intel HD Graphics 530) in which the screen orientation hotkey is not available in Intel HD Graphics panel (see attachment).

I am able to rotate it via Display Settings -> Orientation -> change it to either landscape or portrait. But I'm used to with the orientation hotkey (Ctrl + Alt + Arrow Up or Ctrl + Alt + Arrow Left) to rotate it from landscape to portrait and vice versa.

I use the latest official driver from intel 21.20.16.4542 and actually when I tried to install this driver it said it was not validated for this computer. So DELL is restricting its user to use Intel generic driver, and I don't want to use their driver (20.19.15.4483) because I have an issue with one of my application if I use that driver.

So, what can I do to be able to get the hotkey functionality again?

Another note, right click from desktop only shows Intel Graphics Settings. Intel Graphics Options is not there (see attachment) which has an option to rotate also from there.

Let me know if you need more data and thanks!

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[JGraf1]

As of 13:45 this afternoon it is no longer a problem for me. A user on daniweb.com posted a link to http://noeld.com/programs.asp%3Fcat%3Dmisc%23Display http://noeld.com/programs.asp?cat=misc# Display which is a command line utility that does what your driver no longer does. Since I already have AutoHotkey I can easily add a hotkey to

display /rotate:90 /toggle

to toggle between my two orientations.

[idata]

Thank you for this information you have kindly provided, I hope this can be useful for other users.

Best regards, Ivan.

[DDown1]

I am also waiting for an update that brings back this functionality. The rotation hotkeys, which I use quite frequently, stopped working; and after some looking I realized it's because my driver was automatically updated to version 21.20.16.4574 (I use I use Intel HD Graphics 530 on my ASUS N552VW laptop). I had to roll back to 20.19.15.4474; hopefully an update restores the hotkeys so I can go back to using the latest drivers.

[ide]

Hi debiedowner,

Thanks for your information. So even the latest driver (21.20.16.4574) which is not yet available from Intel website doesn't have this functionality? *sigh*. Then we need to wait for another months for a new driver for this functionality to be back (hopefully).

[DDown1]

Hi iede,

I don't know if the version number I just gave was correct; after your response, I tried updating again it via Windows' Device Manager, and it updated it to 21.20.16.4550 and said it was the latest version. I remember seeing it was 4574 before, but maybe I am mistaken. This website http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/GRAPHICS-BOARD/INTEL/Intel-HD-Graphics-530-Driver-21-20-16-4574-Windows-7-64-bit.shtml http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/GRAPHICS-BOARD/INTEL/Intel-HD-Graphics-530-Driver-21-20-16-4574-Windows-7-64-bit.shtml says Intel HD Graphics 530 Driver 21.20.16.4574 exists though, and it was added on January 25th, 2017, which makes sense; I only started having this problem recently. I don't know.

Anyway, I had to roll back once again as 21.20.16.4550 was no better. I don't actually need the most up-to-date drivers, as I don't play games and such, so I could probably just stay at this version indefinitely, or until they hopefully restore the functionality. However, I don't know if Windows will force the driver update after I manually rolled it back. If Windows starts doing that, I'll probably use the method here: https://superuser.com/questions/447155/how-do-i-set-up-a-hotkey-or-shortcut-to-rotate-my-screen-in-windows https://superuser.com/questions/447155/how-do-i-set-up-a-hotkey-or-shortcut-to-rotate-my-screen-in-windows . I use Autohotkey anyway, so I can assign the Ctrl+Alt+Arrow to rotate the screen that way.

[DDown1]

By the way, this is the simple Auotohotkey code in case it helps you or someone else until Intel fixes its driver:

^!Up:: Run, C:\(Path)\display.exe /rotate:0,, Hide

^!Left:: Run, C:\(Path)\display.exe /rotate:90,, Hide

^!Down:: Run, C:\(Path)\display.exe /rotate:180,, Hide

^!Right:: Run, C:\(Path)\display.exe /rotate:270,, Hide

display.exe from http://noeld.com/programs.asp?cat=misc# display http://noeld.com/programs.asp?cat=misc# display must be placed in the path you use in the code above.

I don't need to use this code at the moment, as I use the old Intel driver. (Instead, I currently use Autohotkey to rotate my touchpad behavior automatically when I use Ctrl+Alt+Arrow, to match screen orientation, using a small program called sakasa.exe)

[ide]

I've installed latest driver version 15.45.14.4590 but the screen rotation hotkey is still missing.

[ST7]

Hi Iede,

thank you for your feedback so we don't loss time trying this version 🙂

In the mean time i've tried the iRotate suggested in another post on this thread. It work well but have a problem for my usage ... In the intel hotkey you have only the CTRL-ALT-ARROW* for the rotation and if you have a multiscreen this operate in the screen with the focus. In the iRotate prog, if you have 2 screen this program create 2 set of of the hotkey (not bad but ...), the first is the same as intel but the second set is CTRL-SHIFT-ARROW* and this collide with the windows default (ctrl-shift-arrowLeft and ctrl-shif-arrowRight) for selecting the text... i've found no way to change the hotkey or to disable the second set and i use often the windows shotcut 😞

i hope in next intel version ...