Windows 10: My windows 11 laptop defaults to portrait flipped orientation whenever I start it up after...

No google search or support search anywhere on the internet has been able to help me, my drivers are all updated and new to my knowledge.

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Surface Pro 4 starts in orientation portrait flipped and I can't get it to keep a different setting

I have a Surface Pro 7 running Windows 11 Insider Preview, connected to 2 monitors. I keep the Surface Pro on its side in landscape orientation. Since the last Windows 11 update, every time I reboot, my Surface Pro starts in orientation 'Portrait - flipped' and I have to change it to Landscape to be able to use it. However, it won't hold this setting. I have tried turning the auto-rotate setting on and off, but it doesn't make a difference either way. I don't see anywhere in the settings to take it off of 'tablet mode'. Looking for suggestions on fixing this issue.

 

Display opens in landscape orientation, but changes to portrait flipped automatically

My issue: Upon firing up my laptop (windows 10), my log in screen will appear in landscape orientation, as is the norm. However, if I leave it for about 3-5 seconds, regardless of whether I put in my password or not, my screen orientation automatically flips
to portrait flipped.

What I've tried already:

- Going into settings and flipping orientation back to landscape. This DOES flip back to landscape and it will remain this way, until I put my laptop in sleep mode, close the lid, or shutdown. When I open back up again, my screen orientation flips again.

- Going into settings and searching for a way to change a setting, if there is one. There is none that I can tell.

- Searching around the web for an answer, however, I just come up with solutions for a flipped screen with the easy fix of changing the orientation back using the control+alt+arrow keys method or settings, both of which work temporarily until I open my laptop
again.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

How do I set/change the default orientation when I flip the lid on my convertible laptop?

I know that. That's not what I'm trying to ask.

That sets the current orientation. I can also do that even faster by just pressing Ctrl-Alt+ an arrow key.

I'm asking how do I set the DEFAULT ORIENTATION when changing to tablet mode. Currently, it has a default orientation of Primary Landscape in laptop mode (as you'd expect -- this is what all laptops have). But when converting to a tablet by flipping the
screen around and folding it down onto the keyboard (probably equivalent action to removing the keyboard from a Surface Pro), the default orientation is Primary Portrait.

It is that second default orientation I want to change permanently from Primary Portrait to Secondary Landscape (Landscape Flipped in the Display Settings), which is the same as Primary Landscape, but rotated 180 degrees. The point is partly that I don't
want to have to set this every time I flip it to a tablet, but also and even more important that I don't ever want it flipping to Portrait on its own, because that mangles all of my windows even when it goes back to Landscape mode.

I can't find where to set this. If I recall correctly from how I set this in Windows 8.1, there was also no setting to do this (not at all sure my memory is right on this), but rather I had to save my preferred orientation when I was in the tablet mode.
I can't find where to do that either.