Windows 10: Is it possible to use a laptop as an external display without using wireless display?

Travelling to uni in the near future and while I have a second monitor I would want to leave one of them at home so I don't have to carry them to uni and back. A solution I came across was using a my laptop as a wireless display which while functional isn't the best especially in terms of latency. Are there any other solutions that are supported? Another idea I had was using a capture card for my PC's output and connecting it to the laptop but I don't have one to test for that purpose. So any ideas?

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Laptop display question

Confusing statement! You want to change the display on your laptop that died?

Is that correct?

How do you know its the display that's bad?

Just google "how to change display on a acer 5745"

Should get you to step by step instructions. But first make sure its the display that's bad

 

Display problems with the Microsoft Wireless Display Adapter

Hi,

It is possible that you are experiencing an audio and video streaming issues due to a corrupted or an outdated display driver. To isolate your issue, we'd like to gather more information:

• Have you made any recent changes prior to this issue?
• Could you tell us the exact error message you received?
• Have you tried updating your display drivers?
• Does this happen only when you're streaming a video?
• What troubleshooting steps have you done so far?

Meanwhile, we suggest that you follow the steps in this
article on how to troubleshoot Wireless Display Adapters. You may expand each section that best describes your situation and check if the issue still persists.

Let us know if you need further assistance.

 

External display with laptop and docking station

Hi Ray,

It is possible that there's no main display that was set to your Windows 10 devices, when you connect your laptop to the dock station. This could be one of the possible reasons that whenever you disconnect your laptop, it reverts to either of the two displays.
To get this corrected, let's try to set a display as your main display. Here are the steps:

• Right click or press and hold on your desktop.
• Click on Display settings.
• On the right side of Display, click on the display number at the top that you want to make the main display, and check the
  Make this my main display box under Multiple displays.
• Then, you can close Settings.

Additionally, there's an easier way to extend your monitor display so that you wouldn't need to go to the display settings every time you want to have an external display. To do that, simply press
Windows key + P on your primary computer to see the options.

Let us know how that turned out for you.