Solved Advice for a new owner

[madtablet]

I'm glad that it was not dust.

about your question, simple put, you can't avoid restarts in certain updates, that is just the way it is.

Thanks. I was just wondering whether I have to babysit the process and keep accepting the invitation to reboot or whether there is a way of leaving the SP3 alone to update and reboot to its heart's content.

 

[MrFrosty]

Yes, just go with the restarts. It's all pretty painless anyway. 2014 tech is ridiculous compared to the crappy 2007 Dell laptop I was using anyway.

Loving my SP3

 

[wynand32]

Thanks everyone. This has a good ending. I went back to the store. Manager looked at it and said he could feel it on the surface. He managed to polish it off with a lint cloth. Said it was some kind of excess glue - probably from the manufacturing process. I was embarrased but relieved.

Whew, glad to hear that! I hadn't gotten the impression that dust was an issue with the SP3, so glad to see that wasn't the case.