Installing Windows 10 on a Surface RT
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- Опубліковано 25 жов 2023
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Today we're taking another look at that Microsoft Surface that I picked up at a garage sale recently. Turns out, it's pretty easy to get Windows 10 running on this thing. So let's do that!
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@adilmaya1246Jeremy Dash
It really is crazy to think about browsers from 2017 already being outdated and broken.
Note: Windows XP support ended 9 years ago 💀
Note: Windows XP is 22 years old 💀
Note: you now feel old.
Note: Windows XP is older than the universe itself
Chain break 😂
Finally the thing isn't useless!
still is; very underpowered
@@botchedrepair1542pretty sad that it only has 2 gigs of ram 😢
@@botchedrepair1542still better than my laptop
Oh it is, Windows 11 struggles on my Surface Go so 10 will be at a crawl on this
@@jbritainbut still better than my laptop.
This reminds me of installing the Play Store on Amazon tablets. Unsupported, but still required to do almost anything useful with the device.
One of the saddest ewaste stories has been the Surface RT. These things would be often used even today had they not been locked down. They could have been great 50 dollar beater work tablets but they were locked down to Windows RT.
they are not locked down, it's just the only OS version they can run having an ARM32 processor
@@user-jz8po2eu2d yes, they are. Unless I'm very wrong, you can't just boot any 32 bit Linux distro on it out of the box.
@@user-jz8po2eu2d Do you know how to get a Linux build on it? It required a jailbreak the last I looked.
@@awesomeferret I meant from Windows world
The desktop mode of Windows 8 ARM (aka. RT) was locked down to running only Microsoft-signed apps at the API level. Even though Microsoft HAD SUPPORT for compiling your own ARM desktop apps in Visual Studio ! From technical point of view, the decision to restrict desktop mode makes absolutely zero sense.
My very best guess that this was done purely for marketing reasons (to prevent ARM devices from competing with more premium x86 models) and to reduce support costs.
1:48 It might be a fun experiment to try, but if you have one from years ago that you used, it could breathe new life as...maybe a digital picture frame or a wall mounted web-based public transit schedule display.
That second example is wildly specific
great smart home panel if you know how
@@kylespevak6781 Wildly specific, but wildly great!
I thank you from the bottom of my heart. You brought back to life something that had been abandoned for years. I tried repeatedly to make a new system for it, but I was unable. Thank you again.
It's always a surprise when an MJD video has no issues!
Love that your background on your PC is the Windows XP but irl
The original wallpaper was also irl
@@kreuner11 True but they used a special film to take it
@@JosephNFSno. It was a wine destroying parasite rendering the wine hill in Sonora, CA in the Napa Valley grass grown green back then. Nowadays it is a hill with wine stock.
You really Inspired me to get into tech stuff
You are my favorite youtuber
Thank you and keep it up!
Really great install mod, thank for showing this!
12:50 HOLD UP - MS-DOS mobile is in there!! That was an MS official Windows RT/mobile exclusive app from what I recall. Haven't ever been able to fiddle with it and the x86 versions of the MS store hides it.
There are certain software applications you could download an arm32 package for. It would not be a fun experience because of the old equipment but you would be able to get "modern" stuff to run...
Another nice video, as always. It's cool to see that it's actually possible to get Windows 10 running on this device.
wow, this is great, thank you Michael MJD!
I had managed to do this myself with the Surface RT and it was a fun process! Wasn't too difficult although I do know my way around. Awesome too see you attempt it too!
@@GUIZAGG as long as the apps support arm32 I believe so, don't believe there are many but there's a possibility. Maybe there's a Linux distro that can run on the Surface RT?
Fun fact: on 15035 the "night light" feature will actually turn the screen blue instead of red on the Surface RT
THANK YOU SOO MUCH MJD! Now i can make my surface rt useful again
Holy shit!! I’ve had one laying around and now it has a use!! Thank you!!
Wow I can't believe 2017 was that long ago... I feel old. Really excited for the Linux episode
I first thought this was going to be in the original video of the Surface RT, but here it is!
I own a RT, so this is going to be fun 😁 Thanks Michael 👍
I've been looking forward to this.
This is the video I've been waiting for
We need more video like this
Always a good day when there's an MJD video
agreed
agreed
An MJD Video without any problems ❤
Finally a video with only a minor inconvenience instead of everything going wrong
It seems to have that you have after followed the instructions to enter the information to set the correct values in the registry editor. It seems to have also let you switch to the back camera and front camera in the camera app since there is that button besides the timer button.
I actually have one of these lying in a drawer. I just haven't gotten around throwing it away.
But now I think I know what to do with it.
_Thanks!_
Interesting video. The one thing I'd need to make my RT slightly usable again is a newer browser than IE. Maybe the old Edge would be enough, but no chance of finding a Firefox or Chrome-version that will run?
Thanks for the video. Installed this on my parents old surface, Netflix stopped working recently and is working again on win10 =)
At least for some time, Visual Studio allowed to compile software for desktop ARM32. I'm curious if you can cross-compile open-source Win32 ARM32 software to run on this build or on the jailbroken RT8.1
yes, you can
Ohhhh nice i have one of these surface rt's lying around so i might try installing it 😮😮
Thank you imma try this on my Surface RT
yoo unlocked memory, i loved my surface i had this exact one andthe 3rd gen model, ahead of its time
This video makes me wanna find my surface rt to try this! Would have been cool to do back then lol
I'd be interested to see how it works with Linux - so if you want to do another experiment with the Surface RT, why not?
It would only work with arm based linux distros.
Windows 7 was 8 years old and still widely used in 2017. Now it is long out of support and will be 15 at some point in 2024...
God dang time flies.
Didn’t expect this!
Finally I here at vid launch (9MIN AGO LAUNCH!)
Ahh the nostalgia for the old windows 10.
if you put glass prism on your device background wallpaper the light that shine from outside to the inside room will separate into many light color composition like in silicon wafer chip color or opal gemstone color Sir
Hey Michael, I think that maybe Linux for ARM32 could be a good idea to run on Surface RT, it could make an interesting video and would enable this device to be daily usable, as it would still be updated. You might be able to use Linux for Raspberry PI as it has ARM32 and touch support, or you might be able to run some Linux distribution meant for Linux Phones, or just go with standard conventional desktop version of Linux distributions that have Arm32 support, like OpenSUSE or Arch.
agreed, linux on arm is a lot better than windows on arm. there is even arm64 linux so if the rt supports arm64/aarch64 that works too.
@@SimonBauer7 Nvidia Tegra 3 is unfortunately 32 bit only (Cortex-A9).
Manjaro has ARM based builds of it's distro, and since it's arch-based it's much more likely to contain any packages necessary to get Surface features working.
@@Daktyl198That is for ARM's AArch64 architecture, not for the 32 bit present in the Surface RT.
There is a project that targets Linux on Surface RT, but it never was really complete. At least last time I looked into it.
@@5Hydroxytryptophan are all of them like that? I know Manjaro publishes builds that target a wide array of specific hardware, aside from the “generic” AArch64 build. I was thinking at least one of those has to be an older 32-bit arm processor.
The most comprehensive guide online! Thanks MJD!
nice this will help me a lot to install a usable version on it :D
Just used this video as a guide to install Windows 10 onto my $15 thrift store Surface RT. Was shockingly painless, aside from the download process taking nearly 6 hours for some reason. Performance still kinda sucks, but at least more things seem to work, at least for now.
Omggg. I am so early. Only 22 seconds after upload. On top of that i was looking forward to this video since the unboxing video
Love your videos
I installed W10 on my surface RT (2nd gen) around April this year, it was great for school, youtube "worked" on internet explorer on the mobile site, and mail would still sync my emails and calendar. Only issue is the graphics would randomly crash, forcing a lower resolution. Dont know if this is common
This is pretty timely since there's a local used Surface RT2 for dirt cheap I was eyeing to tinker with, though I was thinking to try running Linux on it.
Shockingly smooth! How's that even possible?!😂😂😂
finally a installation with out a problems : )
rarity in IT.
@@Canleaf08 fr
Holy Dell, I didn't said it but WOW. you did it good.
When I lived in South Florida many years ago, I did some work fixing people's home computer problems. One of my customers told me that he had gotten a great deal on a Surface RT tablet. I did not have the heart to tell him that it was a great deal because Microsoft was discontinuing Windows on ARM back then. I don't even remember his name so I cannot contact him to let him know that he could try this. I doubt that he still has his Surface RT tablet anyway.
If I'm not mistaken Windows 10 on arm did have access emulation baked into it, at least whenever I ran it on my pi4 it did, I don't know if they ever had it for the arm v7 version of Windows but I know it was on the arm V8 version!
I think the release version of Windows 10 ARM (which I believe was only released as ARM64) supports x86 32 bit emulation
I think when you said this the only client version of this build. It makes me think there were server builds of the arm32 version of Windows 10 just known as windows server 2016 arm32
first time I have seen a video posted within a minute
Thanks for the video! I've managed to install this ARM32 Windows 10 build on my Lumia 640 phone. That's a lot of fun but in the end just as useless as running it on this Surface RT as no recent apps support ARM32.
You need to find then in xda forums.
Great video
I want to do the update... but its saying unsupported operating system... please retry on windows 10 build 15063 or above... i don't get it
If it's not working use a USB drive
If it's not working use a USB drive
If it's not working use a USB drive
If it's not working use a USB drive
hi
i cant boot from usb device
my flash disk is 32 GB
should i use a lower such as 16 or 8 GB ?
I would love to see what you could do with those vtech computers or an amstrad emailer 😎
i would like to see what Windows 10 windows update would say about this thing.
would it be able to install any windows updates at all, probably not a new windows build or anything but would there be anything at all for this thing.
also i would love the Linux followup on this Surface RT.
Finally! My RT is usable
When this build was made there would have been a lot of apps compiled for Windows Phone that would have worked but after Windows Phone was Discontinued Arm32 apps disappeared from the store. A lot of phone apps were compatible with "desktop" devices as it is easier to develop and debug an app if it runs on a windows 10 computer not just a phone and developers wont bother removing computer support when uploading the app to the store. There were no ARM32 computers so it didn't matter if the ARM32 build said it could run on phones and computers. I do wonder if this is why Arm32 app support was removed from Windows 11 Arm64 so old Windows phone apps would not show up for Arm64 users.
Thank you very much! You just did something Microsoft didn't do! Electronic sustainability!
How did Microsoft abandon this equipment that cost customers money!?
Thanks to you, I'm going to reuse it and offer it to a young person who can't afford to buy a new one!
Thank you one more time!
Nice wallpaper 💗👌
I can't remember what the requirements for ChromeOS Flex are, or even if it supports arm32 off the top of my head, and I don't know if it would be possible, but I almost wonder if this thing could run it 🤔
That old edge app brings back memories
Tnx for teh help.
I think my dad downloaded Windows 10 on a Surface RT, he used to have one way back when and I would hop on it from time to time when he would let me. Once, I ended up losing an SD Card that was inside it, he needed it for work and if something were to happen to it, he'd get into serious trouble with his employer or something, I'm not entirely sure. I think that when he downloaded Windows 10 on his Surface RT, the boot-up screen was entirely red while the Surface logo's background was black. A bit of a weird bug, but it still worked surprisingly well.
Not a bug, it's just telling you secure boot is off
Huh.
Question: I don't have a laptop or PC, but I'm transferring media tools from my Android to Windows RT tablet, would I be able to follow this guide without using a second computer and install everything on Windows rt tablet? @Michael MJD
Would it work with m1/m2 macbooks?
Any browser like Firefox etc that you can side load so you catch youtube etc?
I lost you at the installation on to the RT, what did you do to the RT before plugging in the USB drive? thanks
This is interesting since Windows 10 is a cross-compatible operating system. Good experiment!
Great video as always, Michael. You inspired me to make a Windows 10 VirtualBox VM with a similar version and build
I’m a little confused by the sidenote about Golden Keys. The installer says it must be removed, you state that this may not be the case because you’ve seen people install the build without it?
It would be cool to see what the arm insider build of windows 11 would run like
It won’t run on it. It have to be ARM32 version.
I might do this later
Hi, When I click the link for the Windows Media Builder, it gives a message "Not authorized. You do not have permissions to access this space. Contact the organization administrator to configure access". I have signed in with my Google account. I don't know what else to do. Can anyone help?
Is it possible to install it via accessing the setup.exe file in the desktop, without booting it in flashdrive? sorry bad english
For anyone who asks, unfortunately, no other builds of Windows 10 were leaked in ARM32, the architecture that Surface RT's CPU uses, leaves alone Windows 11. The released Windows 10 on ARM is actually ARM64, not ARM32.
As soon as I saw the first Surface video I knew this was only a matter of time 😂
This would make a great picture frame for the MIL.
Yessss for Linux on this!
You can do that, wow
how do u disable the golden keys?
I tried doing this with my SRT, but i deleted the partitions then couldn't get anything to boot from USB. Probably very difficult to recover from here.
0:43 Michael, in IT, a small problem can become a huge hassle. Like moving from Java 11 to Java 17 and Spring Boot migration are a real
pain.
10:24 the 2020 efect (makes u think that's 2017 is like 2 years back 😢
I wonder if it's possible to run Android or Chrome OS on this.
I assume neutral architecture means it's compiled for all architectures from the apps I have seen, you also have no architecture if I'm correct, for winjs apps and others that aren't compiled processor specific and instead get executed by a native interpreter. I am working on archiving these older apps. If you want some games for armeabiv7 on Windows I can provide you with some. You do need a license from the Microsoft Store to officially run sideloaded apps, but I have a workaround to activate the app if you can't purchase the app anymore.
Do you think If I sent this to some IT person they could do this for me
ahh - frustrating - just followed this - but seem to have the setup.exe file missing - strange - will try aagin tomorrow on a different pc :-(
A chrome os would look cool on it if it could work like how its a arm processor?
would love a tutorial on getting linux on one of these!! i got one back in the day and was really disappointed with RT's limitations and would love for it to have a second life. god that thing will feel gross, it's had rainbow duct tape on it for over 10 years
I was given one of these a couple months back I installed windows 10 thinking I could play portal on it because why not and I would NOT recommend doing this you can’t install any apps off browsers and very few apps are compatible in the Microsoft store so basically you can only really web browse on it and that’s about it also I can’t even update mine because it needs to download the update through the web browser which it doesn’t allow you to do for some stupid reason
my idea in vid great thx
It worked