Installing Windows XP on the Touchscreen MacBook but Everything Goes Wrong...

[@autingo6583]

hey there, old time windows xp tablet pc edition user here. actually the system decides whether to install the tablet edition or not according to the product key. so you have to enter a valid tablet pc edition key during the installation process. i guess you're familiar with finding such a thing online! btw. iirc there were once install cds that would also install media center edition, given the respective key.

[@korneliusfrik9545]

i use windows xp professional sp3 as office pc and a android tablet with android 10 so... is that windows tablet

[@Flaretale52]

He should do a followup at that point, lol

[@MichaelMJD]

I appreciate the info! Definitely makes sense. I thought it might’ve done a hardware check of some kind but that’s much simpler lol

[@theextragamer101]

@@MichaelMJD hello

[@tonyfica1]

Unsure if this info is helpful, but the MSDN download for Tablet PC has two iso files.

[@ciach0_]

Finally a normal MJD video where everything goes wrong

[@MinorZ-iPhone]

Facts.

[@Random_PersonOfficial]

Nice early access brother

[@commentarysheep]

It’s not MJD if he doesn’t screw things up one bit!

[@MinorZ-iPhone]

@@commentarysheep True. His best videos are but everything goes wrong videos!

[@korneliusfrik9545]

nice profile pic u got

[@thepwrtank18]

Tablet PC's features are tied to the product key! You need a valid Tablet PC product key for the installation to work. Otherwise, it doesn't bother installing Tablet PC items and defaults to Professional.

[@ZipplyZane]

I was going to suggest this as a possibility.

[@ZakHooiTM]

Was going to say this aswell, pidgen creates a special SKU I'd that's used by the setup handler components. I'm 100% sure of this as I've built the tabletpc and media center stuff in an own build of XP

[@taylorwoolston8856]

That's weird. You'd think it would just install normally, then Windows stops working after 30 days or whatever.

[@thepwrtank18]

@@taylorwoolston8856 If you put a Media Center key into a Professional disc, it'll install Media Center components, but it will fail activation before it hits the OOBE, giving the "You need to activate your copy of Windows with Microsoft before you can log on" error immediately.

[@NikhilTikare]

for me I managed to install the Tablet PC Edition on a VM and I'm able to get all the tablet applications pre-installed

[@ST0NE_206]

When the world ends is when this channel features a “everything goes right” video

[@Random_PersonOfficial]

That already happened multiple times

[@BrunoHuerta24]

@@Random_PersonOfficial but on the title

[@Henk717]

Tablet PC doesn't use a hardware check, but it does do a serial check. If they use a WinXP Pro key it will be just WinXP Pro.

[@MichaelMJD]

Makes sense! Guessing with no key entered it just defaults to XP pro

[@RaduTek]

@@MichaelMJD That's because the 1st disc in a Windows XP Tablet PC or Media Center Edition install disc set is just a regular Windows XP Professional disc. That's why the branding on the installers is for Professional during the 1st and 2nd setup stages. Each XP Pro install contains INF files for Tablet PC and Media Center, which are installed only if the product key SKU matches. Those INFs then require files which are usually on the 2nd disc (CMPNENTS folder), but they can also be placed on the same disc as the rest of the Windows install.

[@andrasszabo7386]

​@@RaduTekhow can I get a key for my Tablet PC edition? I have the original discs that came with my computer but the bottom sticker is worn off, and I have bought a broken machine(same type) but its key does not work on my working machine.

[@Henk717]

@@andrasszabo7386 The all windows dvd has this one : VJT7M-8KKHT-GXQ6B-RX639-94FMD Considering its abandonware and hasn't been sold for 10 years now I doubt its a problem that I give that out.

[@_lun4r_]

Oh hell yeah another "everything goes wrong" video, that's the funnest type of MJD video I like to see often

[@debarkak]

lol

[@miro007ist]

This whole process is more fun than any video game that has come out in the last couple years

[@KingNikolai]

these everything goes wrong vids r my favorite

[@ThatSocialKid]

Same

[@MarcBaggett1]

I love the "everything goes wrong" videos! Keep up the great work MJD!

[@fifaworldcup1994]

Actually, the way the installer determines whether to install the Tablet PC perks or not is actually based on something much more simpler than a hardware check: the product key. And since you didn't input any, it only installed regular ole Professional. So definitely something to revisit in a future vid imo

[@Saber_Nico]

people have commented about that already

[@Mia-gg6eb]

I watch your videos since 2021 and I still can't believe how u stay this calm! Seriously everything always goes wrong and you're just like "ok so nothing is working despite me spending hours trying to make it work😊😊"

[@ArcadeAssaultSrb]

Yaaaaaay a MJD video where everything goes wrong,just in time that i have popcorn and pepsi,this is gonna be AWESOME

[@Davide0033]

"Ylyes!" when you're so happy something just worked out for once

[@robothingy]

30:50 for the ylyes, for everyone out there.

[@TechX1320]

Also thanks for linking to a working xp tablet edition. I have an ATM Windows XP Touchscreen PC I've wanted to put this on.

[@RichsRandomRetroReviews]

I’m 5m24 in so I don’t know the answer yet but from my experience, it depends on the product key as to what the Windows will install. If you put a valid product key in for Tablet PC edition, it should have asked you to insert CD 2, it’s the same for Media Center edition. If you don’t put a valid key in, it just installs regular XP Professional.

[@akivec85]

I just love but everything goes wrong videos. They are very entertaining

[@Gerinych]

If the license file got corrupted, I bet it's something to do with your USB drive, which means it could have affected that Bootcamp 2.1 installer as well.

[@goulashball_mapping]

oh yeah! that was probably much less of a problem

[@ZakHooiTM]

Probably not ejecting the USB key properly. I know it shouldn't be needed perse but have been burnt by this in the past

[@BoKB5]

I always watch whatever you post, especially XP. Currently messing with my XP laptop while watching too

[@Xmetalfanx]

I am sorry but as much as I love all the tech content ... I especially love the "but everything goes wrong" videos lol.... i have suffered through wasting time on windows installs that failed it's entertaining to see someone else go through issues lol

[@R4dm1n]

7:26 It works! *Druaga1 intensifies*

[@windowsnt63official]

How can drivers be installed and not be installed at the same time?

[@ciach0_]

Schroedinger's drivers

[@ThatSocialKid]

@@ciach0_lol

[@samuelhulme8347]

@@ciach0_you only know if the drivers work until you use the hardware (open the metaphorical box)

[@TheRandomPolishGuyy]

It's always a good day when MJD Uploads.

[@khaotix64]

"Installing windows XP on the touchscreen macbook" Oh okay 🙂 "...everything goes wrong" YESSSSSSS!!!!! 🎉🎉

[@MoisesDziga]

From day to day I'm asking myself where he is getting this ideas....

[@krystiankowalski35]

In order to install Windows XP Pro as TabletEdition, you must provide a special Product Key during installation process. The key is in ... The Key itself, it determines whether Pro or TE will be eventually installed (if I recall correctly, there's actually one other windows version supplied with WinXP Pro installation image).

[@clashblaster]

Installing XP on later hardware is always a fun time, especially nowadays after bit rot has set in and it's become next to impossible to find XP compatible drivers for anything. Good on you for sticking through despite all the hurdles!

[@TasoKeya]

i can't get enough of your content, it's that good!

[@gamerguy069]

I love these videos! Not the struggle of course but still, awesome video! 👏

[@kFY514]

A Mac with a touchscreen, running Windows. Steve Jobs must be rolling in his grave and I love it 😅

[@HydragonDX]

Finally, another "everything goes wrong" video, these are usually my favorite types of videos from MJD.

[@BOplaid]

36 minutes of MJD Classics! As soon as I saw this video, I immediately clicked on it and completely forgot about my billion open tabs

[@Lampe2020]

I just randomly tested what it looks like to invert the colours of my screen (through a KDE screen effect) and WinXP's blue title bar became golden XD

[@TheMito97]

This is the coolest thing the algorithm has suggested to me in a while Keep it up, I’m looking forward to the next video :)

[@josiauh]

mjd doesn’t even have to specify everything goes wrong, i know everything goes wrong in mjd videos by heart

[@ijnfus]

Another lovely MJD video.

[@harryroesser2763]

I think you made it on Google News

[@osmankovan7604]

8:48 It doesn't do any hardware check on this subject. You really need a Tablet PC install media to install Tablet PC edition, but you also MUST enter the right serial key just for Tablet PC edition in same channel (OEM, Retail, VL etc.) that you're gonna install for ACTUALLY installing Tablet PC edition. If you skip entering serial key, it just installs regular copy of Professional. With that, I able to install Tablet PC edition on my desktop PC and my laptop which they don't have any single touchscreen support.

[@osmankovan7604]

If you want, you can try again with entering right serial key (that's trial and error as you need to find working key via Googling) just for Tablet PC. If you also want, you can post a update video to this video. And if you install VL copy, you must enter VL key and it's also valid for OEM and Retail keys (OEM key on OEM install media and Retail key on Retail install media etc.).

[@Richardgd8]

Yes another MacBook video

[@elaquen7]

6:28 Quick point of advice: When you want to download something from the internet archive, do it via torrent. Even if there are no other users which are currently hosting the file, the IA will always have two clients online which are much faster than a regular download via browser.

[@RaduTek]

Unfortunately that touchscreen isn't recognized by Windows as a proper HID touch screen. All events from the touch panel are perceived by the OS as mouse input. HID touch screens require Tablet PC components on Windows, as they translate touch input to mouse events. Tablet PC shows a keyboard button hint when you tap a text field, but that doesn't happen when clicking with a mouse. This also enables Windows to do other things, like the virtual mouse that's present in Windows Vista and 7. Also an HID touch screen wouldn't have worked in 2nd phase of setup, as Tablet PC components aren't installed yet.

[@jackfrawley5187]

Another great video Michael. never an MJD vid without something going wrong at some point. 😂

[@malek_and_maged]

4:35 we will just put our name HAE

[@blackhurricane172]

Ah yes, the classic "me doing this but everything goes wrong".

[@awesomereview2358]

You know on the self extracting archive, you could have placed it in a new folder then you use seven zip to extract it in the newly created folder then went into device manager and installed the drivers that did not install it would’ve been much easier than having to download another CD because all that self extracting archive is doing is extracting itself to a different location but if you use seven zip you eliminate that process entirely

[@formatter]

Everything went wrong but ended up actually not that bad!

[@karinthy.]

it wouldnt be an mjd video if it didnt have mistakes in it which just makes it more fun to watch

[@Makinri]

30:49 Michael MJD is an alien confirmed real?

[@eclypds-7674]

Making me smile everytime I see u uploaded

[@wojtekdudek2374]

29:54 Actually, it did recognize the whatever you had of 'hello' at first in the file and recognized it as trio (line[prob. ignored], t-shape, that line leaning [into r], recognized only one i of two and recognized o, probably recognized second i connected with 0 to be '{', but that one is weird)

[@Kudomori-P]

U shpuld install vocaloid on it

[@BoKB5]

Some of the XP era versions?

[@ThatSocialKid]

@@BoKB5Probably

[@orinokonx01]

I love that you have a rule that Half-Life is the go to game for testing. I do the exact same thing! Even got it working on an AMD 486 many years ago!

[@itskdog]

Congrats on getting featured on XDA!

[@InternetStorm]

8:33 I love that he's trying to guess what went wrong while the actual explanation is right there in the middle of the screen 🤣

[@MichaelMJD]

To be fair, I wasn’t looking at that archive page while I was talking, it was edited in afterwords. Just something that slipped by that I didn’t notice. An honest mistake

[@urijahkeshka]

Half-Life is now the new "Can it play Doom?" quote

[@onat4]

08:19 Asus Recovery CD is from my archive :)

[@sleepyhead249]

Hiya!! So I have messed around with this era of MacBooks before and I was actually able to download the drivers from Boot Camp in Mac Os. I believe it is in the top bar with the apple menu in one of those options while in boot camp you can download the driver to a folder from apple's servers. I am not sure if this still works but apple is pretty decent with keeping their old legacy stuff like that for a while. However if you do have a Mac Os X 10.5 install disk then you should have the Windows XP ones on there

[@philtkaswahl2124]

We're pretty much the retrotech audience version of sadists at this point given how eager we are for things to go wrong for Michael.

[@brianbuddy2ACP]

4:44 From my understanding, the requirement to enter a product key at the time of install in Windows XP was removed in SP3. But anything before that will force you to enter the product key at the time of install with no workaround.

[@GreggyMcfly]

4:42. This copy of Windows has Service Pack 3 on it. No need for a key to continue installation.

[@davidb636]

How to get drunk in 36 minutes: just take a shot each time Michael says "you know" 😂

[@lopezg8475]

I love how you take a very specific use case device and ask, why isn't it running xp?

[@richardkonsky]

Remember the windows xp on the apple tv? I kind of told you to use startup disk on the mac side to boot into windows xp.

[@kasaneteto3113]

install vocaloid on it

[@citrus.airways]

this is what the people need

[@notanetcher]

weeb

[@UnlockedOrSmth]

*HOW 14 HOURS AGO*

[@rockpie.iso.tar.bz2]

@@UnlockedOrSmth they aren't a member (anymore) so that isn't it... HOW?!

[@UnlockedOrSmth]

They keep member for a month when they cancel anyway​@@rockpie.iso.tar.bz2

[@icedream3987]

I'm starting to wonder how often this USB stick of yours has caused random weird shenanigans to happen on your setups lol

[@andresbravo2003]

Sometimes gone wrong is that you needed Snappy.

[@wantikjasonchiu4711]

But to me if you really want to download the specific version of Windows XP Tablet Edition from the internet archive, then the best option is to check the checkbox in the filter list for the creator section to make sure only Microsoft is selected so all of the results are from Microsoft

[@rockpie.iso.tar.bz2]

-Krazy Ken Tech Misadentures- Michael MJD [doing something tech related] But Everything Goes Wrong

[@midwestweirdo666]

Finally a real MJD video. I don't want demos of old hardware, I want everything to turn to shit when you do things you're not supposed to do on hardware that wasn't meant to be messed with.

[@JessicaFEREM]

protip when downloading from archive make sure to torrent it. it downloads MUCH faster usually.

[@JamesnLollify]

Everything goes wrong but it goes right in the end

[@apollolux]

Looks like the video title wasn't just ... _all talk._ B)

[@Ultranova537MC]

Everything goes wrong like my life But meet up the good work Michael

[@DeanVRS20VT]

Just happened to pass by and you published a video. Yay!

[@mikeonthecomputer]

Windows XP SP3 added the ability to bypass product key entry, at least for the fully-purchased-product edition. It was meant to bring parity with Windows Vista's installation process. In both OSes, you'll have to enter a valid product key to activate the OS, but bypassing it makes it convenient for short-lived systems.

[@Ravio63-b6z]

OH MY GOSH WAITING FOR SOMETHING TP HAPPEN me: going to watch youtube maybe eat something

[@_-TC]

Yeah please make the video with an older DOS based Windows install! Would definitely make for an interesting '...but everything went wrong' video! 😅

[@stevehuber1586]

"Putting windows 98 on this computer that wasnt never meant to run it with the driver sounds fun". I mean by fun you mean swimming with alligators naked covered in leechs kinda fun then yes im totally down for that 😂

[@demenornagringa8738]

My favorite series

[@AzukTech2]

Everything goes wrong... Is back!!!

[@robsquared2]

We'll insert the ~disk of pain~. You mean winxp tablet? Yeah, same thing.

[@slashtiger1]

Nice video... But I don't get the title, actually. Nearly nothing did go wrong, in fact! Awesome! And oh yeah, please do the Win98 follow-up!

[@thefire226]

you have to set a registry entry to get the brightness working. I had that same thing happen to me but forget what the registry entry is.

[@PRKLGaming]

The license bug is certainly one of the mysteries of all time

[@z9cubing574]

The OS Boxes still live on the shelves in the background.!!!

[@aaaalex1994]

4:42 I think that was introduced with XP Service Pack 3. Previously you needed to introduce a product key.

[@SofaKing-xj6sl]

Noice video man...would really like to see win98 on this thing.

[@JaxVibes10]

Wow this is good You deserve a like

[@ElectricoGamez]

It really went from Windows XP to like Windows *XD*

[@slowednation999]

no i'm actually watching this video on a 2010 MacBook just not with the touchscreen so this whole video gave me some kind of weird inception lmao

[@MrShawnMitchell]

14:54 Blowing right past those rotation options 😂😂😂

[@lukaheylo]

Hi Michael I always watch your videos in 2x speed so if I ever meet you in person you should talk faster for my sake

[@svpracer98]

Well, we either all called this happening or enabled this haplening...

[@will0499]

It’s not an MJD video if nothing goes wrong

[@twiga2]

The American accent killed me when you said Hampshire

[@ajaysrtech]

well turns out it's not so "Everything Goes Wrong", anything works great but the moment when installing the drivers and when the dedicated tablet pc programs are "not being installed"

[@foxonboard1]

I played inkball on vista on a macbook and there, there was mouse visible as i remember

[@iloveitwhenusuffer]

i love your content so much please dont die

[@ggbdwsgbro]

Might as well watch this whilst eating

[@EternalGamingNet]

Interesting video!

[@debarkak]

first time seeing a product key skip option lol