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I think Windows needs a power management session for "When I put the PC to sleep, I want it to sleep. Really. Please.". I had this for quite a while, and I tried a bunch of things, and it presently no longer does it for me. In my case I would dock to charge before going to bed and would find...

That's good to know :I have been nervous about 10 for that reason. As this thread attests it can be a roll of the dice under 8.1. -would be good if you can report back once you have the final release of 10 in?

If you use F keys on autopilot, you can hit FN CAPSLOCK to toggle to always be F1-F12 with a single press. You can then get the media functions by pressing say FN F3 for mute. Also note that if you lock the F1-F12 as I do, you can use FN with the arrow keys for home/end/pgup/pgdn - which is...

I have a similar setup with 2x Dell 2414. Mine works fine with the 2 Dell supplied cables : I run DOCK:MDP→DISPLAY2:DP, then DISPLAY2:DPout→DISPLAY3:MDPin. Prior to getting the dock I had trouble with a generic MPD→DP cable, and found that a Lenovo branded one was more reliable. But the Dell...

No, there haven't been any serious updates for the Chromecast - Mirroring remains an 'Experimental' feature, which means it's ranked below Googles frequently 'Beta' products. The Chromecast is a winner of online video from a supported service, but it's barely there for mirroring. Good to hear...

Short answer is yes you can. I have an SP3 and Chromecast, and it works - the SP3 works as well with the Chromecast as anything will. Longer answer is that screen mirroring is the thing that the Chromecast does least well. If you already have a Chromecast, you could use it for this, but it's...

That's got to be one of the classiest replies I've seen on a forum anywhere. I agree completely with all your remarks, even though I'm not a user of H&F or WMC. Welcome, Eric! I think your use of the Surface at multiple locations with varied peripherals should be a flagship use case for the...

Yep, 'should not', 'not LOGICAL'. I've got a USB Analogue to Digital convertor that: Works perfectly with Windows 8.1 on an Asus Ultrabook Works perfectly in openSuse linux on my SP3 Will not work with any software running Windows 8.1 on the SP3. I've concluded that device hardware is fine...

Hi - just a radical thought having spotted this thread the other day - if you're finding this only on the web (as sharpcolorado queried), are we sure it isn't just the html title attribute appearing on hover, and perhaps not fading/dismissing as they should? From that garage door screenshot, the...

I've noticed this with my Surface Pro 3 too - I had assumed that it hasn't really shut down initially. I recall reading that MS made changes in Win8.x related to faster startup whereby the normal shutdown isn't a shutdown as we used to know it, more like a deep hibernate. I wonder if this...

With a little work you can also change the button click (and double-click) to do other things : http://www.lovemysurface.net/surface-pro-3-purple-button/ ...including powerpoint control

Yes, Autohotkey is a very reliable way to do this for the top/purple button. I have mine mapped to the commands Send {Browser_Forward} and Send {Browser_Back}, which will run a powerpoint presentation forward with single-click and back with a double. It also works in a browser, which I've used...

Wow, that's good to know and scary at the same time. Assume you'll be trying for an exchange through Dell per second bullet? If so would be good to confirm outcome here, as there's no way you'll be the last to be bitten by that...

Holy crap , that's pretty weird, not to mention being a total mystery as to how one is meant to purchase these things. I have 2 of the Dell U2414H , being the slightly earlier 1920x1080 version, and these work fine daisy-chained. As noted in my post above, they sometimes need a power cycle...

From my reading of starstreak's question, it's about running an OSX guest in Virtualbox hosted on an SP2. Those instructions are about getting the virtualbox host working on OSX. My SP3 runs Virtualbox happily with XP or Linux guest OS, and the fact that startstreak gets as far as the 'startup...

Yep, the shrink-down is good for that purpose : the reason for my query is that when I had the issue last week, I would get the shrink-down (indicating that device rotation was sensed), but the display would not rotate. As you pointed out in my thread, that pointed to the sensor hardware being...

A question - When you physically rotate the surface, does it still do the little 'shrink down' dance as if it was rotating, then go back to where it was? Mine did this last week, but would randomly get stuck in either portrait or landscape from the login screen - see my thread here...

Hi Mike, my setup is very similar, and while it works 80% of the time, some times on docking it just doesn't see the displays. You seem to have tried almost everything, so just a couple more if you haven't already: When my setup is fried, it benefits from powering the monitors and dock...

Thanks for the suggestions, team. A refresh has returned things to normal (as well as all the added setup time reminding me how sad I find Windows user profiles).

Last night my SP3 (Purchased last July, on 8.1 with all current updates) has become unable to change orientation while logged in (exactly what thejoker1993 reported here) The accelerometer sensor is working well enough that when rotated the screen does its little shrink/jiggle/grow exercise...