Making a mini USB LCD PC monitor

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Hello all looking for someone me find the stuff I need on here to make a mini USB LCD monitor PC monitor using a 2 line LCD and a arduino.

I am afraid I am rather a novice at it all and need some help pushing me in the right direction.

I have seen the ChibiMo: Arduino + KS0108 graphics LCD = USB Monitor on the internet but the instruction for it say I need to be able to use
windows XP and that the software they are using to make this work does not work well with windows 7 Obviously I want something which
works well with that.

Can someone give me a hand where to look as my knowledge of programming and electrical jargon is limited.

Hope someone can help.

Ben Davies
HornetUK

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Do you mean something like Smartie?
http://www.sureelectronics.net/category.php?id=130

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Yes but with the ability to show up like a windows monitor, do that device?

Like in this link on youtube

but when looking at the instruction it says that the software to
make this works on on Win XP and NOT very well on windows 7

Is there a better way of making this?

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IS there none who can help me with this?

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Sounds to me like they wrote a graphics card emulator, this is far from being something simple we can help you with.
Can you write Kernel mode drivers for Windows? Do you have a digital signature to sign the drivers so that they can be used in 64bit Windows?
In XP it was simpler, but still complicated. Their PC side software seems to come as an executable and not a zip file containing source code so I didn't download it to take a look, but this is much more complicated than a generic "weekend project".

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I have never written a program in my life.

I am just looking for the move simple mini monitor I can make, like the one in my YouTube link

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Well, there is nothing simple about the project in your YouTube link, that is what I was trying to say.
You can probably just buy a USB external LCD screen if you really want a small secondary monitor, that will be as simple as you can get.

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The link shows a graphic display.
You mentioned you want to use a 2 line display.
There's a world of difference in that.

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This probably is not exactly what you want, but ...

The easiest way is to buy Arduino Uno and ready made LCD shield and then run some example sketch. If it will be working, you can try to start write program for serial communication: get data from serial line and show it on LCD. At final stage, you will program your own terminal application for Windows (using Microsoft Visual Studio, Borland C++ Builder or any other programming language that you can handle) that will send data to COM and the Arduino shows it on the LCD.

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Windows 7 pro (32/64bit) can run programs in compatibility mode for windows versions (Vista,XP,98/ME/2000,windows 5 and i think windows 3.1)
You just need to right click on the icon or .exe file.