Can I use the screen/keyboard of a laptop with the Pi?

Question

I have a very old, not-very fast laptop (screen + keyboard work well, but the hard drive is dying and the RAM's getting slow), and the other day an Idea struck me: could I use the screen/keyboard of the laptop with the Pi?

I am mainly looking to control the screen, the keyboard would be an added bonus.

I don't specially want to take the laptop apart, what I'm looking for is some sort of cable and/or program I can run on the laptop (it's on Windows) that would allow me to use the screen and/or keyboard.

The resolution/quality may not be too good, but I'm not especially

I realise this may be impossible, but it would make using the Pi much easier.

Answer 1

You could enable the ssh server, set the Pi up To have a fixed ip address, then just connect to the Pi with a newtork cable. An alternative to ssh would be vnc, so you could use a graphic ui

This relies on the laptop working, but the programs will use very little memory, and probably no disk access, so slow will be fine

Setting up ssh on the Pi has been explained really well in this answer. It's the answer I used to get mine working.

I don't know how to set vnc up, so I can't help with that, but you might find this link of interest