Can I hook up an external monitor and a keyboard to my laptop?

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 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.

I have a laptop with a very small screen. When I have it plugged in at home, I would like to have another monitor to use. I know this is possible but I dont want to USE both monitors, I only want to use the big one (To much clutter.) What I want to do...

I have two computers. One is a laptop with docking station that I use for work and the other is a desktop tower that i use for personal. I just bought two mointors and I can hook them up to the docking station ( 1 using the DVI and the other using the...

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 have a vista laptop and an XP desktop with no moitor. I have a wire that can connect them but im not sure I can just use my laptop screen with my XP computer like that. is there any way I can change the settings in my laptop so I can still use the...