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Today my surface started randomly turning itself on. I turn off the screen and 10 minutes later it comes back on...... that's pretty good of their support team!

My fan relentlessly runs. I have no windows open, and no processes in task manager using any notable amount of resources. I'm convinced that whatever is causing my fan to spin is a bug within Windows itself. As for the touch controls, I often get into a state where every time I tap, it's...

No, because the network services process was using the file, I was not allowed (as an administrator and not) to rename the file, edit the file, delete the file or anything. All I could do was change its permissions and stop it from being read only. To actually edit the file I had to boot into...

I just installed this. Now my CPU is at 100% because of "Network Service something something" and it wont let me restore the original file because this one is in use. I also can't access any websites anymore as it's stuck on "resolving host" I don't think modifying the hosts file should do...

I've been using it for about an hour and 10 minutes, just browsing the web with 3 tabs open in Edge and I'm already down to 74%, 3 hours remaining. Seems bad, no?

Tried this, doesn't fix it!

Use method 2 here, and you'll have to create the key "Personalization" but it will work http://www.askvg.com/how-to-disable-lock-screen-in-windows-8/

Nope, I guess I should try though, this guy is the latest one? https://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us/support/networking-and-connectivity/install-wireless-drivers?os=windows-10

Wifi worked PERFECT in 8.1, now every 10 minutes or so my connection drops completely and I have to reconnect. I had this problem with my SP2 but not SP3 in the past :(

thought that too, but nope I disabled the lockscreen to fix it for now.

Yep having the same problem, in power options and sign in options I set it to never ask me my password and yet it always does, VERY annoying.

I like it all except that it keeps asking for my password when I turn it on even though I set it in 2 spots in settings not to.

You can enable Cortana to always respond to "hey Cortana" - does anyone know how much this impacts battery?

wait seriously? Why would they leave out such an easy thing?

Actually a lot of NodeJS and Ruby development works perfectly on OS X because even though you'd deploy your stuff to something running something like CentOS or Ubuntu, OS X is unix like so you don't run into problems. In contrast, it would be a christmas miracle if I could bundle install or npm...

I'm fairly certain there's another error which can happen in "preparing to install" in Windows Update. I got that twice last night but this morning it just worked. I chalk it up to be either a bug and you just have to keep trying this whole process, or Microsoft time gated the release.

I'm sure I faced this problem when I went from Windows to OS X some years ago, but now I'm having this problem going from OS X to my SP3. I'm so used to how my trackpad behaves in OS X, and when I try to use the trackpad on the SP3 it just seems awful. I don't know if it's a mouse acceleration...

try this http://www.surfaceforums.net/threads/want-windows-10-but-havent-gotten-the-update-notification-yet.16111/ I think it's basically resetting Windows Update cache data and starting anew.

This is completely stolen from reddit, but it worked for me (well-- it says it's downloading for me now): Delete everything out of C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download In Windows Updates, Click to search for updates, leave the window open but dont hit search yet Open command prompt as...

hey, sorry for lurking but can you brave and noble testers tell us if it's safe to upgrade or if we should hold off for a few months and let them work out more bugs. Right now I'm completely happy with 8.1 so I don't want to hurt my experience.