I recently purchased my first Surface Pro 4 i7 - and it is a BEAST. But once I got all the standard User settings all set up - things started going downhill. For instance - the SURFACE software which allows the user to adjust the Pen sensitivity etc. - It would open up to the Splash Screen and then CRASH - same with clicking the top of the Pen and opening up Note. Once I installed Office 2016 - Note stopped working. Within 15 minutes I had enough and decided it was time to load it up with my copy of Windows 10 Pro.
I used RUFUS to make a bootable copy of Windows 10 Pro, and started the install from within Windows OS. Once I reloaded the machine - the DEVICE MANAGER was of course full of errors - and nothing was working as it should. I then headed over to Download Surface Pro 4 Drivers and Firmware from Official Microsoft Download Center and downloaded all the SP4 drivers, installed and now my SP4 is running perfectly.
If any of you out there are having issues - consider doing a clean install. Once completed - there will be the obligatory WINDOWS.OLD file. Do a search for Inherent File Control and make your account the OWNER of this file and make sure you delete it in order to free up about 40gbs of hard drive space.
I would highly recommend doing a clean install to FIX any issues that are Windows related. Hit me up if you need a guide, or assistance with this process should you decide this is the route for you.
Mike
I used RUFUS to make a bootable copy of Windows 10 Pro, and started the install from within Windows OS. Once I reloaded the machine - the DEVICE MANAGER was of course full of errors - and nothing was working as it should. I then headed over to Download Surface Pro 4 Drivers and Firmware from Official Microsoft Download Center and downloaded all the SP4 drivers, installed and now my SP4 is running perfectly.
If any of you out there are having issues - consider doing a clean install. Once completed - there will be the obligatory WINDOWS.OLD file. Do a search for Inherent File Control and make your account the OWNER of this file and make sure you delete it in order to free up about 40gbs of hard drive space.
I would highly recommend doing a clean install to FIX any issues that are Windows related. Hit me up if you need a guide, or assistance with this process should you decide this is the route for you.
Mike