Hey guys need help just wondering if it would be possible to use my laptop screen as a monitor.

[Anthony_201]

Hey guys need help just wondering if it would be possible to use my laptop screen as a monitor for my pc, if there some sort of program which will make this work, my monitor just broke🙁 ?

 

[little_me]

answer is pretty much "no, it is not possible"

You could in theory, use remote desktop on laptop to "see" normal computers desktop but that will not work for anything that would need actual GPU power, remote desktop is meant for administration and not gaming.

 

[Anthony_201]

How do I use remote desktop, does this allow me to surf the web if I plug my hdmi cable and use the cpus internal graphics, cause my pc is alot faster than my laptop.

 

[little_me]

The how to do remote desktop stuff is not simple and... HDMI cables are not the way to go with it.
Problem one is, unless the desktop is already set up to ACCEPT remote desktop connections, you would need a display on it to set that up which you don't have.

few directions depending on which windows OS you are running:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17463/windows-7-connect-to-another-computer-remote-desktop-connection
https://www.groovypost.com/howto/setup-use-remote-desktop-windows-10/

They all fail if the target computer is not ready to accept said connections though, for which you usually need to change settings on said computer requiring you to see what is going on.

In all cases, you would be using your desktop through the laptop keyboard/mouse/all included, I pointed out this option only because it is pretty much only way to see what is going on on the desktop while using laptop.

so answer is still "no, you cannot use laptop screen as separate display for desktop"

Possibly easiest solution would be to buy used small screen for 20 to 30 or.. new one (I think cheapest ones are below 100) and go from there.

 

[Anthony_201]

I'll borrow a friends cheers for the advice.

 

[NDC1995]

Well, something like teamviewer would do the trick for you, as long as you are not looking to play only games.

But since your monitor is broke, i guess you have no way of configuring anything on your desktop, and it can NOT be done without installing stuff on the desktop.

Laptops don't have the ports for video input, and software can't change that.