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As you probably know by know if you’re a Windows RT tablet owner, Microsoft’s new operating doesn’t allow users to load Flash websites, unless they’re placed on a whitelist created and managed by the Redmond-based technology company.
A short guide launched approximately one month ago allowed users to manually edit this whitelist and add as many Flash websites as they want in order to load them in the Metro version of Internet Explorer on both Windows 8 and Windows RT.
It appears, however, that an update released by Microsoft in November has actually patched this whitelist managing option, so the tutorial doesn’t seem to work anymore. At least, not for all users.
That’s why we decided to create a quick guide to explain a different way to enable Flash websites on your Windows RT device. This is actually an official method released by Microsoft for developers who want to test their Flash websites on Windows RT tablets, so it should really do the job for all users.
Note: this step-by-step guide comprises Windows registry modifications, so make sure you create a backup before saving any changes, just to make sure you are on the safe side in case something goes wrong. It only works for ONE Flash website at a time, so there’s no way to add support for more than a single webpage or to manually create a whitelist with Flash links.
First of all, go over to the Start Screen and launch the Registry Editor by simply writing down “regedit.” Choose “Yes” when asked whether the program should allow you to make changes or not.
Navigate to the following path:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftInternet Explorer
With the “Internet Explorer” entry selected, go over to “Edit,” click on “New” and choose “Key.” Name the new key “Flash” and hit the “Refresh” button, so it should appear just below the “Feed Discovery” folder in the tree.
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Select the newly-created “Flash” key, click the “Edit” menu, and hit the “New” option to create a new “String Value.” Name the new value “DebugDomain.”
Double-click the “DebugDomain” option to launch the edit dialog and input your Flash website in the “Value Data” box. Make sure you place the classic “www” tag before the link, so the URL should look like “www.softpedia.com.”
Close the Windows Registry Editor and launch desktop version of Internet Explorer. Click on the “Tools” button, select “Safety” and make sure the “ActiveX Filtering” option is not checked.
That’s basically it! Restart Internet Explorer and simply load your Flash website just like any other page. Please note that this guide only works for the desktop version of IE10 and it does not support the Metro/Modern browser.
It was only a matter of time: You can now run conventional x86 Desktop apps on your ARM-based Windows RT tablet, such as the Surface RT or Asus VivoTab RT. x86 games such as Heroes of Might and Magic 3 (video below) and small utilities such as WinRAR are confirmed to work on Windows RT, with the developer promising to support uTorrent and some other games in the future.
The tool, which seems to be called Win86Emu, is essentially an x86 emulator or software abstraction layer for Windows RT. If you’ve used DOSBox, or some kind of game console emulator, Win86Emu is very similar: You run Win86Emu, select which x86 app you want to execute, and then — if everything goes to plan — your x86 app will appear. In essence, Win86Emu grabs the API calls made by the x86 app, converts them into the Windows RT equivalent, and then passes them along to the WinRT kernel. (See: Under the hood of Windows 8/RT.) As far as the x86 app is concerned, it’s running on a normal x86 Windows machine.
As with any emulator, though, there are caveats. As long as your x86 app uses the emulator’s supported APIs, you’re fine — but at the moment, Win86Emu only supports a limited subsection of API calls, and some translations from x86 to the WinRT kernel aren’t perfect. As a result, HoMM3 works under the emulator, but it doesn’t have any music. Emulation is a lot slower than native execution, too — and coupled with ARM’s wimpiness compared to the latest x86 silicon, don’t expect your Windows RT tablet to run Crysis.
This hack follows on from last month’s jailbreak of Windows RT, which gives you the ability to run non-Microsoft apps on the Desktop. The original jailbreak has since been turned into an easy-to-use tool that executes every time you log in — and indeed, you need to run the jailbreak before you can use Win86Emu. If you own a Windows RT tablet, XDA-Developers has a nice list of Desktop apps that you can run on jailbroken devices.
Windows Rt Future
When Microsoft told the world that it was splitting Windows 8 into x86 and ARM versions, we made the bold announcement that Intel’s upcoming Atom processors would kill off Windows RT. You see, the only advantage that ARM SoCs currently have over x86 is reduced power consumption — but in the next year or so, Intel will catch up. Coupled with the fact that Microsoft made the crazy decision to lock down Windows RT’s Desktop, and that Windows RT lacks the native ability to run x86 apps (Microsoft could’ve easily included its own emulator), and it’s really rather hard to imagine Windows on ARM beating Windows on x86.
Now that a couple of hackers have jailbroken Windows RT and created an x86 emulator, it will be interesting to see how Microsoft reacts. Microsoft’s claimed reason for locking down Windows RT is stability and reliability — Windows RT is consumer-oriented, and it doesn’t want ma and pa to install jury-rigged x86 apps that will cause their system to crash. Instead of a complete lockdown, though, Microsoft could’ve just buried the switches deep within the Control Panel, so that power users at least have the option of running x86 and Desktop apps on their Windows RT tablet. Who knows: Maybe the locked-down Desktop and lack of x86 emulation is actually the result of an internal, political struggle at Wintel’s hegemonic HQ.
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