Laptop as a monitor for my desktop pc

[dcguy]

I have a laptop and a desktop computer (both Windows XP). Is there a way, that I can use the monitor of the laptop as an extra monitor for my desktop computer? Like a dual monitor setup?!

This way, I could move all the photoshop (running on the desktop box) toolboxes to the laptop monitor.

Any help would be appreciated.

dcguy

[dmm96452]

I've never tried it myself but I did come across this when looking for software to use on a dual monitor pc.

http://www.maxivista.com/

[dcguy]

VERY COOL INDEED! This software is amazing. I tried it and it does exactly what I want!

Thank you so much!

dcguy

[mjs1973]

I actually did this when I got my new laptop this past spring. I'm running windows XP and all I had to do was plug my desktop monitor into the extra port on the back of the lap top. Then I had to change a display setting on my laptop and I was in business. I liked the extra space, but since neither one of my monitors is calibrated, there was a very noticable dif. in my images from one monitor to the next.

[Asylum Steve]

I liked the extra space, but since neither one of my monitors is calibrated, there was a very noticable dif. in my images from one monitor to the next...

Michael, you make an interesting point. I use a two monitor setup on my desktop, one a CRT and one a LCD. I've never used a third-party calibration program, just Abobe Gamma for the main monitor, so I too have a difference in the appearance of the two, although I would say it's slight.

But I kind of like it that way. Much as I try to view my web pages in different browsers on different machines, I think it's a good reminder that web images will most certainly look different on different monitors.

With that in mind, I often edit a web image so it falls somewhere in between the two monitors, and looks fairly good on each. I simply move the image window in photoshop back and forth between the two montiors to compare (I use the two monitor SPAN configuration).