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I feel stupid for asking, but why is this important? It has perfectly accommodated everything I'm hooking into it, but felling you may be wanting to hook up stuff that I don't use. Just curious for my own knowledge so if it does come on the Surface 4 I'll know why it's better. :)

I got it!! Hooray! So easy to set up. I read someone posting about having 50 updates. They must have had past updates pending because when I plugged it in and went to my updates, I only had to instal 1 and it took seconds. Also, absolutely no heating issues. My update was so quick it...

Duh. I found it. No longer defragging!! Everyone should check this out since they are set to automatically defrag weekly.

Mine's on truck for delivery..........I wants it, now!!!! Ahhhhhh!!! Coincidentally, I have been out sick yesterday and today so it's delivery will be medicinal. :)

Yes, mine was indeed doing it's weekly scheduled defrag. I checked my SP1 also and looks like they both were auto defaulted to do the defrag weekly. I changed mine to monthly, but don't see an option to turn of auto defrag all together. Anyone know if that can be done? Apparently, my SP1 has...

I just answered my own question because I see that there is a setting to have the system auto defrag on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. I'm gonna go ahead and let this finish out and then see what settings mine are on. Is it a good thing to defrag often or is this something that can be set...

Ugh. I'm experiencing new problems today on my i7,256gb. Once again, when the SP3 is just sitting with no programs running, live tiles all off, at 1% CPU usage and cool with no fan----I let it sit doing nothing for 5 minutes and all of the sudden the fan comes on and the unit is hot. In...

Ultimately, this is what you need to do. Monitor what processes are causing the CPU to ramp up, which leads to heat, which leads to the fan. I did this and found that Windows Defender was doing crazy things when my system was idle to make the fan blow. In the task manager, under the...

Thanks for this, Frank. I had read somewhere about changing the indexing options but didn't know what to change or where to go. However, when I click modify I'm confused. I cant find an IE temp folder. I do have a check on the Users folder on the C drive. Is that what you mean to uncheck...

Curious if anyone else noticed this? I am still working great since turning off Windows Defender and installing another AV software. System is now completely quiet and cool when idle, once again. Has anyone else noticed WD taxing the system like I was? Really strange if it was just me.

Ahhhh, gotcha. That totally makes a difference. The Surface Pro 1 was my main laptop/PC/tablet. I would take it to school everyday and then hook it back up at home to my setup there that made it a true desktop replacement that is amazing. The SP3 will be the same.

Hmmm. When did you order? I wonder if they are getting shipped out in some schedule. I've been able to track the delivery since this morning and it will be here tomorrow (Friday). Although, I have also seen things ship out late in the evening before and still get there next day, so cross...

Just the power cable and sp3 back into the backback. No, I was not taking the usb hub with me to school. It is going to be nice to not have to take the power cable out each night and hook it into the wall along with the usb hub, mini dvi, and speaker cable to my SP3. I can leave it in the...

Agreed, it is so much more. I spent a semester of school coming home each night and hooking up my SP1 to a usb hub, my monitors and speakers, and plugging it in with its power cable. Granted, I only spent about 45 dollars for the usb/ethernet hub and dvi cable, but the inconvenience of daily...

So, after spending a few hours watching and playing with this, I can say that Windows Defender was making my system run hot while idle. I actually posted another thread about it, but wondering if it is affecting more than just me. After I posted the above post, I did indeed let it run without...

Just wanted to share on this thread that I identified an issue with my SP3 i7, 256 today where Windows Defender idle processes were causing my CPU to contantly run at 35% usage and around 3.0 ghz processor which was causing the unit to constantly be hot and the fan to run in idle status. This...

Well, after researching free antivirus, I decided to go with Bitdefender and really like it and what I've read. I needed to get better AV protection than Windows Defender anyway, from things I've read, so guess this just pushed me in that direction. SP3 remained cool during the installation...

Since it was still happening even having realtime protection turned off, I turned off Windows Defender all together and that has stopped the issue. Now I'm left without AV protection. :( I have been perfectly happy with Windows defender on my SP1. Any bright ideas what might be causing this...

No other AV software and disk looks good. The manual scans, both full and quick, all run fine.

Yes. It just started after I ran the first scan. I have opened it up several times today and did a quick scan and full scan, however after the computer sits idle for a while, it takes up 35% cpu and keeps processor around 3.0ghz. If I do nothing, it runs indefinitely. As soon as do anything...