Can I use a laptop for computer desktop display?

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I took home a computer case, less the monitor, keyboard and mouse. I need to
take off a few programs. The only monitor I have, is a (600 pound elephant)
:-) a very heavy CRT monitor. Could I use my laptop like a monitor? Your
help is appreciated. If the answer is no, could you explain why not if you
don't mind...............Peter
 
PeterM said:
I took home a computer case, less the monitor, keyboard and mouse. I need to
take off a few programs. The only monitor I have, is a (600 pound elephant)
:-) a very heavy CRT monitor. Could I use my laptop like a monitor? Your
help is appreciated. If the answer is no, could you explain why not if you
don't mind...............Peter
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Probably no, because your laptop doesn't have any sort of video *in* port
that you could plug the desktop's video output into.

Do you have a spare keyboard? If you don't have one plugged in at bootup,
you may run into the wonderfully paradoxical message, "no keyboard detected.
press f1 to continue."

Also, if your plan was simply to delete programs, you could have done that
anywhere. If your plan was to transfer installed programs to a different
computer, it's not going to work anyway.
 
It makes sense what you said about the input output logic. I guess I was
thinking that there was a cable or a box I could buy to get around this. I
took the computer home, because some programs will not uninstall. One is
Norton system works 2003, or a Norton 2003 AV program. My friends like to
install Norton AV 2004, but it will not install. The error message is that
2003 has to be uninstalled first. Since I don't know any better, and I tried
all over the PC to find an uninstall program, they use Win XP home, and I
tried the Add/Delete programs part, nothings works. Now I purchased them a
program "Win Ultra Cleaner" in hopes that it will help get rid of this
annoyance. They also had many many spy programs, I can't even tell you how
many. So many pop-ups, I would have trashed the computer. So now things look
a little better except for that pop-up of Norton..... Wish me luck, and I
appreciate your help..........Peter
 
Many many thanks Ron, I appreciate you a lot for this. I guess I'm not that
good in finding this type of information on my own, I promise that I was not
lazy, I really tried..............Peter
 
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