A Brief Discussion on the Installation and Maintenance of Windows on ARM with Third-Party Tools
A Brief Guide to Installing and Maintaining Windows on ARM with Third-Party Tools
In our previous article, we introduced the basics of installing and maintaining Windows on ARM using command-line tools. Today, we’ll explore how to leverage third-party software tools specifically adapted for the ARM platform to manage Windows more efficiently.
Required Tools
- winntsetup (ARM)
- Dism++ (ARM)
For download links to the ARM versions of winntsetup and Dism++, please follow our official account and reply with “arm” in the backend.
How to Use
As long as we can access the WindowsRE environment, we can smoothly invoke the software tools mentioned above. We covered how to enter WindowsRE in the previous article. This article focuses on how to open these tools within WindowsRE.
After entering WindowsRE, click on Command Prompt to open the cmd window interface.
- In the cmd interface, type
notepadand press Enter to open Notepad. - Click File → Open in the top-left corner to bring up the file selection dialog of File Explorer. Then, set the file type filter to “All Files” at the bottom. (If you don’t select “All Files,” only folders and .txt files will be displayed.)
- Click “This PC” on the left side to show the File Explorer view of this PC.
- Now, just like using a normal computer, navigate to the location of the ARM version of the tool software.
- Right-click the tool software and select
Open. Do not double-click directly, as doing so will open the software file itself in Notepad, resulting in a mess of garbled text. - Once the software is open, proceed with the normal workflow for installing or maintaining the system.
- If clicking elsewhere on the screen causes the software window to disappear, use the Alt+Tab keys to select the hidden background software.
Please note that the above method also applies to systems installed on Intel and AMD x86 architecture CPUs. Moreover, since the vast majority of .exe software is adapted for the x86 architecture, you can use other file explorers within WindowsRE, such as q.exe, Explorerpp.exe, 7-Zip, and so on.
WindowsRE does not come with a built-in File Explorer.