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I'm not sure the C: drive is encrypted by default. Although it is a fact that BitLocker is "enabled" on the C: drive, but that doesn't mean that its contents are encrypted. If merely enabled, you should see a drive icon with a padlock overlay and a yellow triangle If actually encrypted, you...

Booting to an external device is not all that complicated.... just take two steps: 1) use the "volume up" boot technique to get to the secure boot setting 2) use the "volume down" boot technique to select the boot device For example, I can boot my SP3 from Acronis Recovery Media (via a...

The general consensus is that the Windows 8.1 built-in protection has a marginal track record, and yes... you'd be better off with a 3rd-party solution. In fact, many independent anti-virus testing organizations use Windows 8.1 Defender as the "base line" for protection performance test...

I recently got the "Hex" brand sleeve for my SP3. I really like it... it has the "stiff" kind of nylon on the outside (ballistic nylon?) and a soft fuzzy inner lining. Since it was purpose-built for the SP3, you can imagine that it fits perfectly. There is enough room to fit the SP3 with...

Yikes, I just had the same thing happen to me... my new SanDisk Extreme Plus 64GB micro SD card just disconnected. But a quick physical removal/reinsertion brought it back. My SP3 was sitting faced down on it's keyboard when it happened, so there's very little chance that it was...

I was under the impression that the dock merely had a "mechanical pass through" for the mini Display Port connector. Meaning, just a male connector on the "inside" of the dock to mate with the SP3, and then just wires connecting to a female connector on the outside of the dock... no electronics...

I am working without a dock (since it won't arrive until the 15th). But outside of an unsightly mess of cables, all works well. Let me describe my setup. I have the SP3 laying face down on its type cover I have a miniDisplayPort to DisplayPort cable connected to a Dell 22" touch screen...

Got it... Yes, you'd be OK. The guest account would not be allowed to see the files, and BitLocker would prevent a thief from gaining Admin access via boot tools. If you wanted to go one step further, you could also use file encryption on those files of concern. I wouldn't recommend using...

Are you talking about BitLocker as the "device encryption"? If so, that is designed to protect the contents of the hard drive "outside of" an authorized connection (such as you pull the hard drive and try to recover its contents from another PC, or booted from an alternate boot device)...

No, not explicitly. However it's a safe bet that if you can get the Acronis pre-boot environment to see the partitions, then that means you can also perform a bare metal restore.

Yeah, I do that too... as well as quarterly image backups But, by that time, I've already got Acronis loaded on the PC and no longer have to boot from recovery media to preform a backup. You could consider the initial image technique as described in this posting as a dress rehearsal for...

Here is another shot while installing software, but running off the battery. I am using WiFi and nothing plugged into the USB port. The previous example had the charger plugged in and both a USB mouse and USB Ethernet adapter plugged in. Same pattern as before, but significantly lower...

I took a shot with my Thermal Imaging camera... http://www.surfaceforums.net/threads/thermal-imaging-map-of-i7-based-surface-pro-3.10085/#post-72815

I usually do a "virgin" backup of new computers, so I can return them to the "out of box" experience when I pass them on. However, this requires that you preform an image backup before the first boot of the device. So, in case anyone is interested, here is how I did it: 1) Create a bootable...

Below is a "heat map" of my new i7-based Surface Pro 3. The thermal image was taken from the front while installing Microsoft Office. Notice the difference in temperature from the middle and corners.

Here is a silly idea... Buy the "official" Microsoft dock, and then use a "foam wedge" to prop it up to whatever angle you need for drawing. The wedges are cheap and easy to cut to size. http://www.amazon.com/Balanced-Body-Foam-Wedge/dp/B002YQY3C4

I routinely make "clones" of my main PC to other PCs with different motherboards, processors, graphic cards, etc. Each new version of Windows is actually more tolerant of this type of procedure, and I have been 100% successful since the early Windows 7 days. For example, I recently did a...

Booting from a USB-based device (a flash drive or CDROM drive) is a two step process... 1) Use the "volume up" technique to turn off "secure boot" 2) Use the "volume down" technique to specify the boot device

Well, that's good to know... I understand now that you're talking about 3 devices (phone, surface, and some other WiFi enabled device). So, just to clarify... the "phone to surface" part of the puzzle is working perfectly? ... and the trouble is solely with the "surface to 3rd device"? If...

Ok, this is an old thread, but.... I think the problem you're having is a mix up in terminology. You don't need to "create a hot spot" on the Surface in order to use a USB-based tethered cell phone's data connection. In fact, the phone (via the USB port connection) typically just becomes a...