Multi PC's on One Monitor

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Johnny B said:
Need info on how to allow multiple PC's and systems to work on one laptop
monitor.
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If the PCs are running Vista Ultimate/Business or XP Pro/MCE you could use
Remote Desktop to access/control them from the laptop. I do that, ie. run
headless, to control a Windows Home Server and in the past a XP Pro machine.
Note you need to configure the BIOS on each of the headless PCs to ignore
errors on bootup.

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/RemoteDesktop/RDP6ConfigRecommendations.html
http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/RemoteDesktop/RemoteDesktopSetupandTroubleshooting.html

If you have a Vista Remote Desktop host and an XP client configure them like
this...

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/ScreenShots/XP/RDP6-XPClienttoVistaServerConfig.jpg
http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/ScreenShots/XP/RDP6-XPClientSettings.jpg

If the PCs are running Vista Home editions or XP Home then UltraVNC will
work instead of Remote Desktop.

http://www.uvnc.com

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