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surface rt

Mar 16, 2016 11:52PM PDT

i would like to connect a hp pavillon tower to my surface rt docking station to use the installed programs on the hp hard drive. can this be done by connecting a usb cable to the hp tower and the surface docking station?

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I'm going with No here
Mar 17, 2016 4:56AM PDT

The Surface RT docking station is not designed to take video in for onward transmission.
Also, the Surface RT is a tablet with no Video input that I know of

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I had an RT.
Mar 17, 2016 8:51PM PDT

Nope. RT is quite a different beast. About all you can try is to see if any VNC (see google) is available or Remote Desktop.

Sorry, my RT experience was so bad I gifted the unit away.