Multi PC's on One Monitor

"Johnny B" <johnb@abc.com> wrote in message
news:4B3E42C1-6DE8-4F37-A783-CBCFA4F81E10@microsoft.com...

> Need info on how to allow multiple PC's and systems to work on one laptop
> monitor.
> --
> Never enough knowledge for
> Johnny B

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.or...endations.html
http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.or...eshooting.html

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

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.or...rverConfig.jpg
http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.or...ntSettings.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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