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Old 01-07-2017, 04:15 PM
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Laptop screen real estate

I currently use an old laptop to run the mount and camera and remote control it using Teamviewer from a newer laptop that I also use for image processing. The new machine is 1920x1080 whereas the old one is only 1366x768.

I'm looking for a way to increase the available screen space on the old machine as it can be a bit cluttered with SGP,PHD2 etc. I was originally going to purchase a "Headless Ghost" or FIT Headless adaptor and trick the old laptop into thinking it had a 1920x1080 FHD monitor connected to it.

https://www.headlessghost.com/

http://www.fit-pc.com/web/products/fit-headless/

While I think this will work, I'm wondering if there is another way to make the old machine think it has more screen area? I started looking into GiMeSpace however Avast thinks it contains malware so that idea hasn't progressed very far.

http://www.gimespace.com/

Has anyone found a way to tackle this or does anyone have any positive experience with GiMeSpace - is the avast report a false positive?

Also will Teamviewer work with a second monitor using headless ghost or similar?

Cheers,

Peter
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