Can I use my laptop screen as a second monitor for my desktop?

No, but you can use a monitor as a second screen for your laptop

Hi agen lol and thanks.

Yes, there is a cool application called MaxiVista that I have played with before. It uses your network so there is no hardware involved.

MaxiVista - Multi Monitor Software (http://www.maxivista.com/demo.htm)

Like to see the answer, I know of a primitive way if laptop has no video in, use a usb tuner, which has one or more video signal in(composite, component, s-video... ).

Now I'm confused guys :(

Yes, there is a cool application called MaxiVista that i have played with before. it uses your network so there is no hardware involved.

MaxiVista - Multi Monitor Software (http://www.maxivista.com/demo.htm)


But I'm asking about a desktop and a laptop not two laptops?

Same thing

You install 2 pieces of software on the 2 machines,

One is a controller (your main PC) and one is the slave (a laptop or another desktop)


You can also connect to more then 1 slave, I had

[Laptop 1] [Desktop LCD1] [Desktop LCD2] [Laptop 2]

For a 4 monitor setup :)

I was thinking something like this, desktop would have to have matching video types:
Diamond Multimedia VC500 - Find, Compare, and Buy at DealTime (http://www.dealtime.com/xPO-Diamond-Multimedia-VID-CAPTURE-DEV-USB-2-0-ONE-TOUCH-NTSC-PAL)

Okay thanks guys, I think ill keep them separate thanks for all your help.