Revive Your Surface Pro 3 with Tiny11

The Surface Pro 3 was released in 2014 and is still usable today thanks to Tiny11. Today I show you how to revive your Surface Pro 3 with Tiny11.

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[Eevnos]

What are you running on your Surface Pro 3?

[iFedericoFellini]

Great content and video. Appreciate the no-nonsense approach, easy to follow guide, and links. Going to throw this at my Surface Pro 4 and see what happens.

[Digitalmedialess]

I just installed Tiny 11 on my Surface Pro 3and wow its a brand new PC.
Super fast and responsive. I was going to purchase a new PC but I'm so glad I didn't and installed Tiny 11.
Great Video.

[elgato]

I did this with my core i3 SP3, runs great with transparency effects disabled!

[forcequitOS]

I don’t have a Surface Pro 3, just a plain old Surface 3. But, I will say what I’m running on it.

I’m currently running the Windows 11 Insider Preview on the Dev channel (since it has official support from Microsoft by doing so)
I debloated the install using some simple guides, and it actually can handle some light multitasking, video playback, social media, and web browsing now, unlike with both Windows 10 and Windows 11 by default.

It’s probably one of the best combinations for official software support and retaining all proper drivers without installation.

[RonGay-km]

Great video! I love my pro 3 surface pro 3 warts and all! Subscribed primarily due to the badazz Boba Fett shirt!

[pineappleroad]

1:35 with Rufus, the only difference is that the portable version saves its settings to a file in the same directory
The standard version does not require installation (I believe it’s been like that since version 2.0)

In fact, the portable version is LITERALLY just the executable of the standard version, renamed to include the letter p in its name (the letter p is what tells it to start in portable mode, which it will also do if it detects a settings file in the same directory)

Also, you may notice Rufus will only list USB flash drives by default (with the exception of ones that present themselves as “fixed” drives, which are not shown unless you enable the option to list USB hard drives)

[sozonpv]

@Eevenos you alright? It’s been 5 months.

[albertomadeira]

I don't see why we always have to open an account just to download a file. If you want to give people free download, just make it free. Shame on you people.

[RemofRenaissance]

Thank you for this content. I have a Surface Pro 9 but could not afford 16GB RAM so have the 8GB iteration.

I see this as a lower spec (albeit expensive) machine so this will definitely come in handy! 👍🏾

[wackyshots]

Thanks for this info/tutorial! My old SP3 has now been resurrected. Do you think this would would work on an SP4 as well? Thanks again!

[monikamoon]

Finally bricked my tablet SP3 following this and deleted the recovery drive. Stuck in TPM mode. After starting with windows 10, cooking my tablet, regressing it back to Windows 8.1, , with shit Wi-fi settings ...

[a.lawrence]

I installed this on a old Thinkpad T440s. Its super fast!

[alfonsozampogna]

If there was a way to do this on my Surface RT

[goyoloco]

After I installed the updates as you suggested, It reinstalled most of the bloatware, ie, solitaire, spotify, whatsapp, linkedin, xbox, etc.

[steppingstonemediagroupllc]

Thank you for the video. I recently upgraded my Surface Pro 3 to Windows 10. It looked as though you did a new install using the special boot to the thumb drive. I am wondering if thise will work as an Upgrade to my Windws 10 install. Or do I need to do a clean install as well?

[licensenbadge]

Hey Eevnos, I followed your video, it was smooth and everything is faster now and the Type Cover works great. The only issue is the touch screen isn't working. I installed all the updates and the surface app. I also checked the drivers and nothing is missing or disabled. I'm not finding much help online, any guesses?

[jbadkins]

Do you have a video updating hardware on older surface pro model with newest tech (as processor or graphic card etc)?

[thevaldu]

Hello, I have a surface pro 3 and I would really like to install this OS, but I am a little afraid of losing my data, is it possible to do the update while keeping the applications and files already present as a simple update? Or do you necessarily have to do a Cleen install? Thank you in advance for your response.

[mrmartywaring]

I was looking for an opinion about Tiny11 & how to install it. Will the reboot process be the same for all Windows computers?