Remote Screen help

andy faith · 09-10-2007, 11:09 AM

Hi, I was just wondering if anyone knows of an application that allows you to remote to another computer and use its screen as an extended desktop or something like that?

patrickv · 09-10-2007, 12:01 PM

so you want the remote screen to be extended to another monitor ? yeah sure you can why not just use the standard remote desktop in XP, or you can use Real VNC.
www.realvnc.com/
hope whatever you are doing is for a good cause

cheers

andy faith · 09-10-2007, 12:08 PM

no, I want to basically use a screen off my laptop as if it was plugged into my computer and use it as an extended desktop screen.

andy faith · 09-10-2007, 04:25 PM

does that make it any clearer? I have heard of some software that does something like that but I'm not sure what it's called or if it actually does it so thats not much help

PC Hobbyist · 09-10-2007, 06:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by andy faith

no, I want to basically use a screen off my laptop as if it was plugged into my computer and use it as an extended desktop screen.

What video card do you have on your desktop computer? Does it support dual-monitors?

If it doesn't, maybe someone here knows of a way around that.

andy faith · 09-10-2007, 09:22 PM

...well its nothing to do with that...but yes my video card supports dual monitors, still need the software to do that

PC Hobbyist · 09-11-2007, 01:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by andy faith

...well its nothing to do with that...but yes my video card supports dual monitors, still need the software to do that

I guess I'm just not totally clear with what exactly you want to do.

Are you talking about having your laptop connected to a network shared by both computers?
Or are you wanting to use the internet to connect the two together?
Or do you not care about them being networked and you just want to use the screen of the laptop as a second monitor but you don't want to connect it to the video card on your desktop pc?

And by "extended desktop" do you mean - the desktop pc uses the laptop's display as an extension (in other words, you could drag a window from one display into the other).
OR
Do you mean "remote desktop" - where one computer controls the other one?

Sorry, you asked one question and I threw 5 at you.

andy faith · 09-11-2007, 03:00 PM

no worries. my laptop and pc are networked and yes that is the definition of extended desktop I am on about.
It would be nice to connect the screen of a laptop to my computer somehow aswell though...as I have lots of laptops and some don't work...but yeh...thats not what I was on about

[-0MEGA-] · 09-11-2007, 03:20 PM

So you want to use your laptop monitor as a second monitor? If so I dont think it would work that well, even if they are directly connected. Remote desktop software always has lag time, so you wont be able to watch videos or play games (well) on the laptop.

andy faith · 09-11-2007, 03:28 PM

I'm not really planning on doing anything graphically intensive, I just want to know how to do it as it would be useful. Besides I've already got dual screen anyway.

09-10-2007, 11:09 AM	#1 (permalink)
andy faith Gold Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Coventry Age: 19 Posts: 276	Remote Screen help Hi, I was just wondering if anyone knows of an application that allows you to remote to another computer and use its screen as an extended desktop or something like that?

09-10-2007, 12:01 PM	#2 (permalink)
patrickv Diamond Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Soul Chamber Posts: 5,426	so you want the remote screen to be extended to another monitor ? yeah sure you can why not just use the standard remote desktop in XP, or you can use Real VNC. www.realvnc.com/ hope whatever you are doing is for a good cause cheers __________________ Laptop: Thinkpad X60: Core2Duo T7200 @ 2Ghz,1GB DDR2,110GB SATA -winXP ProSP2 Work Desktop: Core Duo E2180 @ 2Ghz,1.5GB DDR2,240GB HD - XP PRO SP2 Home: Core Duo E2180 2Ghz,1.5GB DDR2,Nvidia GForce 6200TB,320 GB (2x160GB) -Dual boot - XP / OSX 10.5.2

09-11-2007, 03:00 PM	#8 (permalink)
andy faith Gold Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Coventry Age: 19 Posts: 276	no worries. my laptop and pc are networked and yes that is the definition of extended desktop I am on about. It would be nice to connect the screen of a laptop to my computer somehow aswell though...as I have lots of laptops and some don't work...but yeh...thats not what I was on about __________________ Main PC: Athlon XP 2400+, 1GB RAM, Geforce4 Ti 4200, Asrock K7S8X mobo, 2x40GB HDD. NEC DVDRW, Pioneer DVD\CDRW Backup PC: Athlon XP 2000+, 512MB RAM, 60GB HDD, Radeon 7500 Main Laptop: Inspiron 6400: Core 2 Duo 2.0GHz, 80GB SATA HDD, 2GB PC2-4200, DVD-RW, Radeon X1300 Backup laptop: Latitude D410, Pentium M 1.73GHz, 60GB HDD, 1GB RAM, DVD-ROM

09-11-2007, 03:20 PM	#9 (permalink)
[-0MEGA-] Diamond Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Concord, NH Age: 19 Posts: 26,897	So you want to use your laptop monitor as a second monitor? If so I dont think it would work that well, even if they are directly connected. Remote desktop software always has lag time, so you wont be able to watch videos or play games (well) on the laptop. __________________ Desktop // Laptop Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 4.0GHz // Core 2 Duo T9300 2.5GHz Asus Rampage Formula X48 // Intel PM965 ATI 4870X2 2GB GDDR5 // Dual 512MB GDDR3 8600M GT's SLI 4GB (2x 2GB) DDR2 940 // 3GB DDR2 667 DC 750GB SATA 3.0Gbps w/32MB // 400GB (2x 200GB) 7200RPM Creative SB X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty SilverStone 750W +12V@60A 3DMark06: 21366 // 7394

09-11-2007, 03:28 PM	#10 (permalink)
andy faith Gold Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Coventry Age: 19 Posts: 276	I'm not really planning on doing anything graphically intensive, I just want to know how to do it as it would be useful. Besides I've already got dual screen anyway. __________________ Main PC: Athlon XP 2400+, 1GB RAM, Geforce4 Ti 4200, Asrock K7S8X mobo, 2x40GB HDD. NEC DVDRW, Pioneer DVD\CDRW Backup PC: Athlon XP 2000+, 512MB RAM, 60GB HDD, Radeon 7500 Main Laptop: Inspiron 6400: Core 2 Duo 2.0GHz, 80GB SATA HDD, 2GB PC2-4200, DVD-RW, Radeon X1300 Backup laptop: Latitude D410, Pentium M 1.73GHz, 60GB HDD, 1GB RAM, DVD-ROM

09-10-2007, 12:08 PM	#3 (permalink)
andy faith Gold Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Coventry Age: 19 Posts: 276	no, I want to basically use a screen off my laptop as if it was plugged into my computer and use it as an extended desktop screen.

09-10-2007, 04:25 PM	#4 (permalink)
andy faith Gold Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Coventry Age: 19 Posts: 276	does that make it any clearer? I have heard of some software that does something like that but I'm not sure what it's called or if it actually does it so thats not much help

09-10-2007, 09:22 PM	#6 (permalink)
andy faith Gold Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Coventry Age: 19 Posts: 276	...well its nothing to do with that...but yes my video card supports dual monitors, still need the software to do that

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