I just bought a new Acer Laptop, my question to the group is, is there
anyway I could use my laptop as a dual monitor for my desktop? Is that
possible? I have windows Vista installed in both the laptop and the
desktop.
Any help or suggestion in this will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

"shub" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I just bought a new Acer Laptop, my question to the group is, is there
> anyway I could use my laptop as a dual monitor for my desktop? Is that
> possible? I have windows Vista installed in both the laptop and the
> desktop.

No.

But you COULD run a program called Synergy on the laptop and desktop,
connected through your network ports.

It lets you use one keyboard & mouse to control multiple PC's.

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
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> I just bought a new Acer Laptop, my question to the group is, is there
> anyway I could use my laptop as a dual monitor for my desktop? Is that
> possible? I have windows Vista installed in both the laptop and the
> desktop.
> Any help or suggestion in this will be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks

Most laptops have an external video connector - the good ones allow you
to use your LCD and an external monitor at the same time - you can
select SPAN on the setting and have two complete screens for one very
wide desktop.

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As Leythos said, you can use the laptop to drive a monitor to have two
screens but you can't use the desktop to drive the laptop's screen. The
laptop just doesn't have the internal circuitry to enable that.

If you need two monitors there are many video cards that will drive two or
more monitors that you could purchase for your desktop and then purchase the
required monitors.


"Leythos" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
> (E-Mail Removed) says...
>> I just bought a new Acer Laptop, my question to the group is, is there
>> anyway I could use my laptop as a dual monitor for my desktop? Is that
>> possible? I have windows Vista installed in both the laptop and the
>> desktop.
>> Any help or suggestion in this will be greatly appreciated.
>> Thanks
>
> Most laptops have an external video connector - the good ones allow you
> to use your LCD and an external monitor at the same time - you can
> select SPAN on the setting and have two complete screens for one very
> wide desktop.
>
> --
>
> Leythos
> - Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.
> - Calling an illegal alien an "undocumented worker" is like calling a
> drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist"
> (E-Mail Removed) (remove 999 for proper email address)

Dunno, this is the XP group. You might ask in the vista group and find
someone that may know.

shub wrote:

> I just bought a new Acer Laptop, my question to the group is, is there
> anyway I could use my laptop as a dual monitor for my desktop? Is that
> possible? I have windows Vista installed in both the laptop and the
> desktop.
> Any help or suggestion in this will be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks
>

there is a feature used
for troubleshooting that
may be adapted.

the affect would provide
two similar displays.

by networking the two
computers together and
initiating a remote desktop
function, one computer will
have the view and access of
the desktop of another.

however instead of using it for
troubleshooting, it can
be adapted for training
or presentations.

i don't know of the advanced
features of vista yet:

http://search.microsoft.com/results....remote+desktop

but a remote desktop session/feature
i have used is called "simple desktop"
via the internet.

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"shub" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>I just bought a new Acer Laptop, my question to the group is, is there
> anyway I could use my laptop as a dual monitor for my desktop? Is that
> possible? I have windows Vista installed in both the laptop and the
> desktop.
> Any help or suggestion in this will be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks
>