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I'm using Eclipse in Windows XP. One of my favorite shortcuts is CTRL-ALT-DOWN (or CTRL-ALT-UP) to duplicate a line.

I just found that on this machine (XP ThinkPad, with NVIDIA graphics driver), this is has the effect of fliping the screen upside down, which I will rarely use.

How can I disable this? Or, if that is difficult, is there a way to give Eclipse hotkeys precedence over any other hotkeys? I'm not sure if this is an OS 'feature' or a background utility, or a function of the graphics driver, but any suggestions that would help me track this down and eliminate it would be appreciated.

I've looked through the choices on the NVIDIA control panel, and I don't find any hotkey options.

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Are you sure it's and OS shortcut? Could there be a utility running in the background to control orientation? – Tog May 5 '11 at 19:32
@Tog - Good point. How would you investigate this? – Eric Wilson May 5 '11 at 19:33
Have a look in the programs list for oem utilities, check the task manager, check the startup list using msconfig – Tog May 5 '11 at 19:40
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I have not tested on AMD/ATI graphics, but I know for a fact that all Intel drivers do this and some Nvidia.

Simply go in to the configuration tool of your driver and look under a section called hotkeys and disable it.

For Intel:

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I feel like a dunce, but I can't find the configuration tool of my driver. Where do I look? – Eric Wilson May 5 '11 at 19:55
Found it, but didn't find hotkeys, edited question. – Eric Wilson May 5 '11 at 20:04
Glad you found it... I think that nvidia listens on the driver level, therefore you won't be able to get software to listen "higher" than that - all you can do is change your graphics profile or the hotkey to something else... possibly control+shift+alt+direction? – William Hilsum May 5 '11 at 20:23
For those who can't find these settings - try following the route: Control Panel → Appearance and Personalization → Display → Screen Resolution → Advanced Settings → Graphics Driver – lyuba May 20 at 15:13
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That is a function of the display driver, not the OS. You will need to check the settings in the Display Driver to see if it can be disabled.

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