Can I hook up a desktop monitor to my laptop?

Ok this is is a question with many parts any help is appreciated: 1.) Can I hook up my laptop to any desktop monitor or do I need to buy a special kind of monitor (or some adapter) to do that? How would I find out if my specific laptop and monitor are...

I want to have a bigger screen, so I was wondering if I could hook up a monitor to my laptop and then control everything on the monitor with a keyboard and mouse just like I was using a desktop.

my laptop screen broke but i can still use it. so i hooked it up to my tv and use it on the tv and its so wack. i was wondering if i can hook it up to a desktop monitor and use it on the desktop with the blue cord i used to hook up my lapt top to the...

I use to have a desk top and it stopped working so I got a laptop and hooked up the monitor from the desk top to my laptop. When I hooked it up the first time a box came up so I could choose how I wanted to view it. It had three choices: 1. view on monitor...

I only have laptops now, but I have an old desktop that I need to get info from, and no monitor for it, can i hook my desktop to my laptop and have the info show on the laptop screen?

i know i can hook a mouse and keyboard up but i wasn't sure about the monitor. i thought i could put the laptop to the side and just use the other stuff on my desk when im at home doing stuff.

i just bought a new monitor for my desktop and was wondering if i would be able to hook my laptop up so that i could use my new monitor with it.

When I hook it up now, it stays the same size of the laptop screen on the bigger desktop monitor.So there's an inch or two of black around each side of the image.

My screen on my laptop stop working so is it possible to hook it up to A desktop monitor?