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Hi Sharp I just got somewhere close to 'Play All' by using Windows Media Player, but physically having to select all music files in the folder first. For me, right-clicking at folder level did not work. Anyway - big thanks! Still seems like the opposite of progress to me, though, with one...

Thanks Sharp! For 'play all', though, I was meaning a Widows menu item. In Win 10 File Manager, when selecting the first music track in a folder, 'Music Tools' would pop up in the top left of the screen. From there, you could select 'Play All'. For me, this has completely disappeared with...

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I installed Windows 11 a few weeks ago. So far it's been pretty disappointing. My SP6 is noticably slower on most tasks that before . To cap it all - when trying to play music from File Explorer (....call me old-fashioned!), I no longer get the 'play all' option. Why on earth have they...

Erm,,, Microsoft Word and Microsoft Outlook, in fact! Word documents and EMail work just freeze after a while - sometimes with black all across the top of the screen and down one side. It's been like this with the SP6 since the beginning. I thought it would sort itself out after settling...

Thanks for your replies, guys. Love it! Just for the record - I went on Microsoft live chat for this and they were helpful (and efficient!). Basically they said that I should really only use the dedicated charger intended for each Surface Pro version - as you might expect. When pushed...

I have just bought an SP6 in the UK, even though most of my use is in continental Europe. The brand new charger plug has a sticker on it full of stern warnings about how the device must be earthed and the plug fused. I don't want to carry the bulky UK plug, with adapter, around with me all the...

I just wish there was a nice strong battery in the base, so you could mount it on a mobile table/platform.

Many thanks, @sharpuser, for your help with this - and Happy New Year! I tried the different ruses you suggested - i.e. powering up with and without keyboard and disabling various startup processes - but it didn't seem to make any difference. Or, at least, not at first... Now, though, the...

I was pleasantly surprised recently to be able to buy an SP4 keyboard with fingerprint reader in the UK (thought it was only available in the US). I'm now using it on my SP3. When it works, it's an absolute joy, but it seems to work only sporadically. More often than not, I'm afraid, it...

For a while I have been using and enjoying the automatic upload of photos from my phone (Lumia 830) to OneDrive, which are then shortly afterwards visible on my SP3 in the File Explorer view of OneDrive in 'Camera Roll' in a 'Pictures' folder there. A week or so ago, however, this function...

Without much time before heading to the airport for a flight to places where SP3s don't exist, I managed to find and buy a new pen. And YES, it works..! Will have to contact Microsoft later about the other one, since this was clearly the problem. Anyway - new SP3 finally in fully working...

Agree with all you say, Grumpy, but wouldn't have posted if I hadn't tried that already. Thanks, Kris. Despite this (in fact, potentially serious) issue, I'm completely smitten with the device after over a year of grafting on SP1/SP2. I would hate to have to send it back - but have short...

Pen, Jambox and phone. Is it normal for the pen to have problems connecting if another device is connected at the same time?

Hi - now a couple of days with my new SP3 after lengthy apprenticeship with both SP1 and SP2. Just love it - of course! However, Bluetooth connectivity has been sporadic - I have not been able to get the pen working properly yet. When connected to new phone, the connection drops again after a...

My very first attempt, sitting in the garden... SP2, though.

Many thanks for your help jnjroach and GreyFox7. I scanned for errors and it told me there were some and offered me various repair options. In the end I performed a refresh. Things had really got bad before I performed it - like hanging as shown below ['This PC - The folder is empty'] for...

I mean the security scan of the downloaded file. It doesn't get any further than that, I'm afraid. Since the Defender button is unresponsive, I don't seem able to bypass it.

Hmm - same problem. I try downloading Malwarebytres and I get 'running security scan' which then just hangs and nothing further happens. What do you mean by 'invisible off'?

Have tried disk clean up and pausing and re-starting OneDrive sync, but I'm still getting the green line and generally sluggish performance. Also interesting to note that the 'zip' feature is not working properly - i.e. when I send files to a new zip folder, they cannot be opened afterwards -...