How to Disable Screen Auto-Rotation in Windows 8

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Published on Tue, 27 Nov 2012 07:00:53 GMT Indexed on 2012/11/27 11:09 UTC
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Windows 8 is strongly aimed at tablets, most of which allow use in both landscape and portrait orientations. Depending on your personal preference, you may wish to disable this auto-rotating behavior. Here’s how to do it.

Note: While testing out devices we noticed that the setting to disable screen rotation isn’t available on all devices, so we have provided a way to disable it in the registry as well.

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