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In my experience, disabling wifi in sleep doesn't help. What might correlate with this happening, however, is putting it into sleep and then removing the power cord which wakes it back up. As far as I've seen, my chances of having a battery drain during sleep increases drastically if I let this...

Yeah, not a good idea to install programs to external devices since they might need to be kept constantly active if the program is running.

As leeshor alludes to, your new device is doing a whole lot of things in the background that are standard for Windows to do, things such as indexing all of the files on your SSD (including the possibly gigs of data you may have just installed/transferred on to it), doing anti-virus scans on any...

Eh, I'm pretty sure that, even if SP4 and SB worked perfectly, both Continuum and their phone business would still be stagnant. This is because their phone hardware is not exceptional and the Windows Store is sorely lacking. As such, Continuum is irrelevant regardless of Surface. In fact...

My point was that they would get those sales anyway because they have no competition. If you want a computer, you're buying Intel Skylake no matter how bad it is... because AMD's CPUs are even worse. They're passing up basically nothing. If you're not buying a Surface Pro 4, you're buying a...

In this case, I'm actually willing to cut Microsoft some slack because, as I understand it, most of the legitimate problems with the SP4 are caused by Intel's Skylake being more challenging to do proper sleep for as well as Intel's GPU drivers being crap... and there's not much anyone can do...

This is obsolete information that is no longer relevant to the Type Cover 4. The Type Cover 4's function key is now a toggle with an LED indicator.

See, the problem is that a lot of people install ridiculous rubbish on their computers or they go to horrible websites that covertly install things that might interfere with the normal operations of the device. We don't and can't know everything that a random person on the Internet has...

I found the magnesium coat on the Surface Pro 2 to be really easy to scratch, thus I have been pretty careful with the SP4. Since November, I've only gotten 2 light but noticeable scratches on the back. The biggest problem for me is when I'm drawing and want to rotate the tablet sitting on the...

Yesterday, I had it burn through 34% of my battery over 5 hours during sleep... and then it failed to wake from sleep so I needed to hard shut down. Sleep is definitely not fixed which sucks.

Yeah, what leeshor said. There are a number of background tasks that need to do things over the first couple of hours and some times after certain updates. Give it a bit of time before you go crazy tweaking things.

I have done no special driver installs or tweaks so, unless Windows Update installed that, I haven't.

Device would not wake again from sleep today, this time with no video open, so it's just an issue that's still there. Seems like the battery drain issue is fixed but the crash during wake up is not, thus sleep is still not reliable. Sigh.

Well, not everything completely rosy yet. Just had it fail to come out of sleep, thus I had to hard power down (ie. hold the power button for 15 seconds). In terms of what could have caused it, if I had to guess, it was a problem with the Intel graphics drivers since, this time, I put it into...

Assuming that you don't have a hardware issue, the secret is to just use it as is. Another secret is to not install and run a bunch of things that tend to remain active in the background. I do not use any special tweaks and my average battery life (which includes many times where I played games...

With the Feb. 17 update, sleep appears to be definitely fixed now, often draining only 1% over extended periods of time which is awesome. Concerning usage battery life, I've only really tracked one significant battery drain and that was today. Over 2h50m where I was using a Bluetooth mouse and...

63 degrees is well under spec (~90-100 degrees). It's totally fine. That hot spot on the back of the device is where the heat sink is to dissipate heat: the fact that it's hot is a good sign that it's dumping the heat out of the device.

I've sometimes found that, when I leave it charging but don't manually put it to sleep, it will begin doing some system things which cause the fan to come on. I can see some high CPU usage when I immediately open Task Manager but it quickly goes away. I suspect that there are some background...

Streaming works by first rendering the game on your original computer and then sending the produced images to the streaming machine. As such, it can only use the resolutions available to your original computer which will be limited by its monitor.

What I'm really liking about this sleep fix is that now I can use it like I would any other tablet: put it to sleep when I'm not using it. No more deciding whether I want to save and close everything for a shutdown or risk draining my battery to keep everything open for later. Just push the...