Questions tagged [microsoft-surface-pro]
Use this tag for questions specifically about the Surface Pro series of tablets produced by Microsoft.
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Win10 - Auto-align TabTip.exe to default (bottom) position
We use Win10 Surface Pro devices in a kiosk type manner. The user is in an enclosed shell with no access to Windows. However, the user does have admin privileges. The devices are managed by Intune.
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Battery Icon in Taskbar Missing On Surface Laptop
I have a Microsoft Surface Pro 5 but this should apply to most Surface devices. After messing around with my drivers trying to update a graphics driver, the small battery icon at the bottom right of ...
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surface pro only displays on external screen
I'm doing hardware support at a high school and I have a Surface Pro 7+ running Windows 10 and the screen is blank (black).
Weirdly the Windows logo flashes up on the screen for a second when booting ...
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Surface Pro 3 suddenly will not boot from USB
I created a bootable Ubuntu 22.04 USB stick and successfully booted from it on a Surface Pro 3. I successfully "tried" ubuntu on the Surface Pro, and then decided to go ahead and install. I ...
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How to fix Surface Pro 7 stuck in boot loop?
I'm trying to fix a Surface Pro 7 with Windows 10 that is stuck in a boot loop.
It tries to start, flashes up the Windows logo, then quits and restarts again. And again. And again...
Hard reboot ...
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After using Clonezilla on a Surface Pro 7+ BitLocker is triggered
I do not have BitLocker activated, I have never even used it.
To be able to start Clonezilla from a USB stick, I disable Secure Boot.
After cloning a Surface Pro 7+ running Windows 11, trying to start ...
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Hard Links Not Updating when I Rerun STATA script
I have created a hard and symbolic between the output file for one STATA script to the input file for the next script. I would like that when I run the first script and the output file is updated the ...
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MS Surface Book Pro. Battery Died Suddenly
I have a Windows Surface Book Pro. device. The battery was healthy and works for as much as I needed. Out of a sudden, the battery today does not work at all. If I plugged the cable, the device turns ...
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What does Gt and Go RAM mean on my Surface Pro 9 packaging?
There is a sticker on the packaging for my Surface Pro 9 which I assume is some kind of technical specification, but I don't fully understand it.
If I look in Task Manager I can see I do indeed have ...
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Surface Pro - preventing boot loop by changing where boot code is stored
Is there a way to change it so that the Surface Pro boot sequence is loaded from the UEFI MaskROM each time instead of being cached in RAM to prevent a boot loop in the future? I just encountered this ...
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Menubars etc individually scaled for different apps in Win 11
I recently bought a Surface Pro 8 with Win 11 and I am experiencing something very odd and annoying: The menubars and everything else seems to be scaled differently for every program. Specifically for ...
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How to remove GRUB from Windows laptop (MS Surface Pro 3) - the 4x BootRec commands did not work
I have Windows 11 running on my MS SP3 laptop. I had Ubuntu also installed, but removed the partitions for it. The laptops DOES still boot, but I have to type "exit" at the GRUB screen - how ...
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Keyboard not working on Surface Pro 7
I got a Surface Pro 7 and my keyboard is not working properly.
In fact, in the past, the keyboard was working when it was not magnetized to the screen itself. Now, I'm forced to magnetized/stuck it ...
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trying to install openSuse Leap 15.3 alongside existing windows10 on my surface pro
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Disk Partition in Windows
Now, when I restart and boot using a openSuse Leap 15.3 bootable USB, i expect to see a 100 GB disk that I could partition as required (root, home, ...
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new battery, wear level is 67.7%,16.3%, 8.9%, then 7% at the 3rd charge Cycle, is normal?
I just installed an OEM battery on my Surface Pro 4.
At the very beginning, the battery Wear Level is 67.7%.
Then I tested it with discharge and charge cycles. The Wear Level reduces as the following ...
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