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You're welcome Nikhil - glad I could help. You're right that a first party setting to customise swipes would be great, and we can keep hoping (and discussing). Last week's change to allow better customisation of the pen buttons is one of an occasional but very welcome series of moves that makes...

Hi - Autohotkey will let you alter taps (and keyboard mappings) quite easily, and runs with a low overhead. You can make the three finger tap do middle-click (which is my preferred option and works really well), and the remapping for Autohotkey for that is +#^F22::mouseclick, middle You can...

I've got a couple of Dell 24[something]s which are 1920x1080. If you are running Win10, you can now set the scaling level independently for each display, meaning that I have the SP3 internal display at 150% scaling, with the externals at 100% scaling, so things are about the same size -that is...

Hi - glad that's working nicely for you! The best plan I can come up with to do forward as well is to use the ALT key with a triple-tap. The script below does seem to work, but it means you need 1 finger on ALT and then three to tap the touchpad. I'm no pianist, so that's pretty hard for me...

Hi - sorry but my quick test on three finger swipe using Autohotkey, won't fly - that gesture is obviously very deeply baked in (which may be why sharp's mentioned TouchMe no longer works). You can make the three finger tap do browser (and explorer) back though, if that's any consolation - it's...

I'm 90% sure that Autohotkey can be made to do this. (I just remapped the three finger tap over the weekend). I will run a little test tomorrow and post a script.

More importantly, you are getting glorious vertical pixels. Vertical pixels are much more valuable than horizontal pixels. I did the calculations before getting my SP3, and found that the physical vertical height of the 12 inch SP3 was the same as most 14 inch displays. With the Surface Book...

Fair enough, but I'm a big fan of ergonomic keyboards and number pads. As good as the Surface Book's keyboard may be, it's not going there. I agree that standing it up somehow is likely a winning move :maybe it's time for someone to start a 'post photos of your desktop setup' thread for the Book.

Agree on the three monitors, but I think the key point I read from Pete's post was 'SP3 ...taking up little to no room on my desk'. Being an actual laptop, the Surface Book will stick its keyboard out into the space where your full size keyboard wants to be, unless you find a clever answer.

Yes, the unsung genius of the SP3 dock is how brilliant is is for a workspace compared to any other laptop or convertible dock I've ever user or even seen. Denny is right about the three monitors, so while I can't justify a Surface Book upgrade and am jealous as hell, I have two suggestions to...

Try changing the Refresh Rate. My wife is in deep thought using out monitors at the moment so I'm totally not certain of the numbers, but I think by default our Dells were detected as 59Hz, but changing to 60Hz permanently eliminated the flicker. (And work fine with the stock Dell mDP→DP...

I can give you a sort-of solution for 4. I have the MB168B+ which was last years model, and I got a very slim external battery like this that is credit-card sized and only 4.5mm thick, and attached it to the back of the monitor with double-sided tape. It still fits inside the sleeve. The cable...

For (1) you might also try Autohotkey. See my post here re. binding the top button to control powerpoint. AHK sees the button press (and double-press) OK -The Keystrokes which the pen delivers correspond to WindowsKey+F20 and WindowsKey+F19. I've done a very quick test for you - this code in...

Update : I think I've tracked it down to a bug with the updated version of AltDrag, which lets you move windows by holding the Alt key and dragging any part of the window (as in most Linux desktops). AltDrag is awesome for Windows, don't be put off by my issue : just make sure to disable Scroll...

Hi, in the last few days my SP3 has had quite a few bouts of extreme unresponsiveness. When it occurs the touchpad lags by 3-10 seconds, and screen touch is also conked out. It tends to start in chrome or firefox (but that's also where I spend a lot of time so may not be meaningful), and it...

I'm astonished at how similar the keyboard is to the SP3 -not just the fold-to-screen, but even the attachment method looks a dead ringer. I'm jealous of the actual Shortcut/menu key and the larger looking trackpad -I wonder if they went as far as to clone the pinout o_O -my type cover is a bit...

You're not wrong! It struck me as very weird that everything but those worked,in fact I checked that it wasn't a stuck CTRL for that reason...

It's probably little consolation, but I'm finding Windows 10 pretty good, especially with regard to setting difference display scaling for the external monitors. As you say the file resync thing after reset is retarded: I have partitioned mine to keep my files off the C: drive, and I use sync...

Hi - check my second post, as I managed to get my wife's one in a similar situation to yours working, by futzing with things in Advanced Display Settings. Before you return to the MSFT store it's at least worth confirming: Does Device Manager show multiple monitors? (My wife's did) If so does...

I had something similar with my SP3 the other day : C and V didn't work. I brought up the touch keyboard and they didn't work there either! In my case it just some very weird software thing that was fixed with a reboot. Hopefully your fix is so easy?