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See the following link: https://www.raymond.cc/blog/easily-change-or-switch-the-default-audio-sound-output-in-windows-vista-and-xp/ I use tool #4 but that comes down to personal taste as well. Rather elegant, and simple switching back and forth between audio connections.

Had no issues whatsoever ... and according to the readme, the only SP3 update in there was a pen settings update to support the Surface Hub app ,,,

Same here. Struggled for weeks, ended up having it replaced by Microsoft. Has been flawless ever since.

That is exactly what I meant. Sorry for not having been more clear. The power connector that connects the SP3 and the dock indeed also houses the USB 3 and Displayport bus. You will find that the internal SP3 USB 3.0 and the external Dock USB 3.0 ports are all on the same USB bus. If you start...

Please note that the Surface Pro 3 Original Microsoft Dock connector "only" carries two ports from the SP3 into the dock. The USB 3.0 port and the DisplayPort ... This means that while indeed any daisy-chained displayport monitor setup works without taxing the CPU too much, everything else dpes...

It still is available ... http://microsoft-news.com/samsung-releases-firmware-update-for-its-ssds-in-surface-pro-3-devices-to-improve-performance/ Direct link...

Just turn it off manually and restart ... Firmware update already took place prior to the boot and optimization/recalibration only takes place after a full restart ...

Yep .. sounds about right .... Then, after rebooting into Windows the program will come back and do the 3 optimization passes. After that there will not be a second reboot necessary btw.

It will not come with the Windows update, so you need to manually install it ... But only if you have a Samsung SSD

There must have been some peer pressure. Samsung is not exactly known for its zeal and dedication wrt developing OEM firmware updates. They usually leave that up to the OEMs. The fact that in this case Samsung themselves took the initiative tells me that the issue was too important to ignore ;)

Fully agree. The availability of the Samsung Firmware update has also been raised in the Microsoft Surface forum @Microsoft. so I guess they are aware of it regardless.

Not at all I guess. First of all, not every Surface Pro 3 has a Samsung SSD inside, some have a Hynix SSD instead. On top of that, this is a specific Samsung firmware update that is applicable to all Evo 840 drives, Retail and OEM. The unfortunate part is that retail firmware does not work on...

Interesting side-effect ... Somehow my average CPU usage seems to have become slightly lower after the update ...

Firmware updated fine, no data loss. Currently recalibrating my drive :-)

Works fine. Have been doing this on all my SPs ever since SP1. Please keep in mind however that the Dolby package both has Advanced Audio v2 and Home Theater v4. There is a distinct difference between the two, where the latter has more features. See...

Both in-place upgrade and clean install from ISO left me with constant screen flashes and spontaneous reboots ...

Aside from the fact that what you experienced with Microsoft is very sad, I think that adding both an "Other, see comments" and a "None of the above" option would make the poll a bit more realistic and appealing ...

The solution you already mentioned in fact should work and in my case it really does. I created a new power plan based on the standard one, named it "Office" and the only thing I then did is change: change plan settings -> change advanced power settings -> power buttons and lid -> lid close...

I too considered the Venue Pro at some stage. The Atom CPU however makes it unfit for my use, as I predominantly work with VMware virtual machines. The SP3 is a sheer powerhouse in comparison, and is much more capable of delivering the horsepower to run multiple VMs. Atom CPUs simply don't...

The two cannot be compared. Windows 8 is a full fledged operating system with sophisticated 64-bit dual-cpu hyperthreading capabilities, parallel tasking, delayed startup of non-key processes and services. iOS doesn't even come close in that respect. You can already start using Windows while it...