What can I use an old computer for?

I have a big old 17 inch Sony trinitron monitor that was $500 new and is still in perfect condition. Its 5-7 years old, and not hooked up to a computer anymore. Can I hook it up to my laptop somehow so I can watch dvd's on the big screen or hook it up...

hi all thanks for looking, i have just got hold of a newer computer but to me my old one was capable of doing most things other than running powerfull games like call of duty modern warfare and stuff like that, but it worked great with normal games like...

i have an old computer i dont use, can i take out the ram and put it on my newest computer? I dont know what was wrong with my old computer, it wouldnt start, so is that a problem?

okay so i was using my computer and i turned off my monitor and then i turned it back on and it wouldn't show anything on the screen. i tried restarting my computer multiple times and i also reconnected everything in the back of my desktop. So nothing...

I play The Sims Life Stories on my computer and I had what's called Custom Content. Since I had alot of it and didn't want to lose it if I had a crash or something, I had a copy saved on two 8 gig flash drives. My old computer's monitor died...too expensive...

Ever since my brother has used my computer, he has complained about not going into his google account. Now whatever he did has effected my user account. My homepage is yahoo and for some reason I can still sign in. The problem is that I can't use any...

I recently decided to get a tv tuner for my computer but I am not so sure what it exactly does. I want a good one that I can connect my cable box to and watch the channels on my cable box. Is this even Possible? Also if its not what can I do to watch...

I have my hard drive from my old computer. I just want to use it as extra space to store documents, pictures, music, etc. What steps do I need to take when connecting it to my current computer? (Formatting etc.) My old computer used Windows XP, and my...

I would like to use the hard drive from my HP pavilion 522 and use it for storage on a newer HP Compac. They both have windows XP. I only want to keep the data files from the old computer. Should I remove or uninstall windows and all the other programs...