How To Use Old Laptop As External Monitor

If you re only using your laptop as a second monitor at home you can allow any device and leave the pin blank.

How to use old laptop as external monitor. On the main pc that you want to use your laptop s display as secondary display for. So my laptop got old and suddenly stop working. I usually travel with a main laptop and a backup laptop anyway. Refer to this youtube video for furth. You just need the right parts.

It served me well for a good 5 years with a number of service centre visits battery and hard disk replacements formats and os upgrades. Go to settings system projecting to this pc. In fact i m literally sitting here in a hotel with a separate usb3 lcd display panel to use as a second monitor. Go to the desktop or laptop you want to use as your main device and press windows key p. For this scenario we re going to assume that you want to use your laptop as a monitor to display your windows 10 desktop.

Now on your main pc the one you want to project from press windows key p then select how you want to project your screen. For far too long i possessed an old dell studio laptop. When the laptop you want to connect to appears select it. I ve also used duet display and used my ipad pro as a second monitor. Select how you want the screen to be displayed.

Lot of people will tell you it is impossible but it is not. Click on the notifications action center icon in the bottom right hand corner of the taskbar. Choose extend if you want your laptop to act as a true second monitor that gives you additional screen space for the productivity uses mentioned above. Turn your old useless laptop screen into an external monitor. Change the first drop.

Old laptop screen into monitor. Click on connect on the menu on the bottom of the notifications slide out menu.