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I know how you feel. Personally I am gutted, first thing I did when I got my sp3 was to move the recovery onto a USB stick. a known, fully working, good, USB stick. I verified the files after then removed the recovery partition on the SSD. guess what, my SP3 REFUSES altogether to boot from...

Boot into the bios and make sure that all ports are enabled and the boot sequence is set to the network > USB > sad option (or however its worded) I will admit, my SP3 is most finniky booting from USB but it does always, eventually, work. I found I have greater chance of success if its been...

Why not just use the built in windows disk imaging tool? its dead easy to use, free, and easy to restore. To backup, plug in a USB hard drive formatted to NTFS load control panel > file history > system image backup (bottom left) let it search for the drive, make sure the correct external...

Probably well documented and unavoidable resonance of the CPU, Memory and maybe the voltage regulators on the motherboard. Most, if not all, laptops produce some incidental electronic noise. With the component density on modern, small motherboards with every single component integrated there...

I notice no difference whatsoever for any office / email / internet / streaming use between my Haswell i7 Desktop, my Haswell i5 ultrabook and my i3 Surface pro 3. Literal;y, none whatsoever. My i3 SP3 also players Wow, DDO and STO just fine at native resolutions. Elite Dangerous chokes a bit...

I totally agree As part of my job I also manage IT at my workplace. A mix of PCs and Macs. the mac's are, by far, the most hatefull things to do anything on. Im not sure how they have the reputation as being easy to use. Even the simple stuff is no simpler than a PC running 7/8/8.1

Sorry I have been away from my sp3 for a week, will check when I'm back to work and have my equipment available

it is a problem with the January firmware. it does it on mine and also my colleagues. both of ours are new devices and went from the factory firmware straight to the January one via windows update. strangely, another colleagues that is older and has had updates cumulatively from last July...

sounds like the battery management firmware has gone a bit screwy. Try turning it on in UEFI mode (hold down volume up + power, then release power button when turned on) and leave it in the bios menu until the battery is completely drained. then charge overnight with the machine off.

I would hardly consider a long start menu not efficient. Its either a finger swipe or a trackpad swipe away. All organised. I get plenty done!

GTD? wht is that?

Lol, how many launchers? :) I like it !

Here is mine, might be long but it has everything I need and is super organised. I'm interested to see other peoples

I don't buy into the whole overhearing / new devices shouldn't get hot brigade. it is a full computer, with a ultrabook class processor in a metal shell 9mm thick. Its gonna get warm. it generates heat, it has to go somewhere. If it didn't get hot or wasn't even getting warm, it would...

Yes of course. in terms of importance in my life it would have to be dog > missus > car > surface And yes, she does know that

Alas, that is not an option :)

what is interesting is that the two teardown videos on youtube seem to show that Microsoft are using some of the really dry, wafer thin, claylike thermal interface material between the CPU and heatsink. if this were a laptop I would immediuately replace it with something better, but we cant do...

its not so much a motion sensor as a "bend sensor" at the bendy bits. I think its a little too severe, it needs about another 30 degrees of bendiness or so before it should disable.

So, those pet owners amongst us will know what im on about here. As much as I love the little blighter, my dog sheds constantly and her fur is very fine. it gets everywhere. in my food, on my clean clothes, in the PS4, in my laptops, etc etc. No matter how many times a day I sweep and vacuum...

hehe, I have a 13" MacBook air soft case, including apple logo on the front. it also has a pocket just ruight for the charger. I LOVE confusing the hell out of people pulling my SP3 out of a mac case :p don't judge me, it was on sale at my local Tesco for a tenner :D