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Using Laptop KB & Display on Deskto
Name: vwchappy Date: March 28, 2007 at 19:29:11 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: P3 2.53 / 512mb Product: HP
Comment:
Does anyone know if there is a way to control a desktop PC using a laptops keyboard, mouse, and display? Without modifying the laptop of course. Basically what I want to do is work on desktops on my dining room table using my laptop to control it, so I don't have to lug a big CRT, keyboard, and mouse around. Any Word? Thanks!!
Name: wizard-fred Date: March 28, 2007 at 20:50:25 Pacific
Reply:
If you have networking in both machines you don't even have to move anything. You need a remote desktop application like VNC.
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Response Number 2
Name: vwchappy Date: March 28, 2007 at 20:54:27 Pacific
Reply:
Well that would work, except for the fact that I would be formatting the desktops hdd's and doing new installations of XP. So that way would only work once the OS is installed and functioning with a network. Maybe I can just find a cheap 15" lcd somewhere. It's not so much the keyboard and mouse, it's the monitor. Thanks for the reply though!! :)
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Response Number 3
Name: jefro Date: March 29, 2007 at 14:06:32 Pacific
Reply:
I am pretty sure he offered the correct advice.
I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you goober.
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Response Number 4
Name: vwchappy Date: March 29, 2007 at 20:20:02 Pacific
Reply:
So say I have a desktop with NO OS on it, can I use my laptop devices to enter the bios on the desktop?
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