Windows 10 Preview on Surface Pro 3

[sharpuser]

Windows 10 should not post any Notifications: "Do you want to enter Tablet mode?". That is worse than "Are we there, yet?".

That's why these notifications are not sent:
- "Did you mean to press the Start button just now?" "How about now?" "Now?"
- "Did you want to rotate the screen?"
- "Your Caps lock is now on." "Now off." "Now on." "Off."
- "Are you sure you want to shut Windows down?"
- "Did you mean to listen to that Barry Manilow track?"

Okay, That one is useful.

 

[hughlle]

Still having issues here, typically when not plugged in, with the display failing it seems. It goes a solid color and I can't access the start menu. Almost like the leak we saw in explorer.exe in the one earlier build. I have flashed the drivers manually through device manager, are others installing those drivers a different way? I just keep getting blue screens.

Ive been having this issue periodically since i first installed 10. Cant even restart the machine through the start menu. Fortunately for me it doesnt occur enough for it to annoy me, a quick restart and its gone,

 

[GreyFox7]

Did you mean to listen to that Barry Manilow track?"

Come on everybody deserves a second chance to abort that

 

[RémiM]

2 new problems found:

1- I can't log-in with PIN number -- seems to happen to other people too
2- Google search provider doesn't want to install on my IE (related to Win 10 or just IE ?)

 

[GTiceman]

Ive been having this issue periodically since i first installed 10. Cant even restart the machine through the start menu. Fortunately for me it doesnt occur enough for it to annoy me, a quick restart and its gone,

That is my same experience. It varies for me but I need to hard restart. Sometimes, very rarely the BSOSF(Blue Screen of Sad Face) will reboot the system

 

[sharpuser]

2 new problems found:

1- I can't log-in with PIN number -- seems to happen to other people too
2- Google search provider doesn't want to install on my IE (related to Win 10 or just IE ?)

The PIN and Picture login options are not in Build 9926.

Google installed okay for me - no problems.

 

[GTiceman]

The PIN and Picture login options are not in Build 9926.

Google installed okay for me - no problems.

Picture login works for me

 

[sharpuser]

Picture login works for me

Well then, I was obviously wrong about that. Bloggers at other sites are also reporting that these two options are missing, but perhaps account verification steps can restore one or both.

 

[Charlie Cassidy]

I had the PIN issue on an earlier W10 build but it was working on 9879 and is still working on 9926. I'm also not having any fan or video issues. I haven't monkeyed with the video drives, and have done straight upgrades from W8.1 on my (new then) SP3 until now. I don't remember what I did to fix the PIN issue other than resetting the PIN.

Update: I played more with video and I'm having the opposite problem than SharpColorado. I can play local video fine, but IE crashes if I try to stream video. The YouTubeHD Modern UI app also dies if trying to stream.

 

[RémiM]

The PIN and Picture login options are not in Build 9926.

Google installed okay for me - no problems.

Well, I deactivated and reactivated IE11 and I still have the pop-up message telling me it can't install the google search provider because something is missing or because I dont have an internet connection.

I will try from work.

By the may, Win10 is hardly draining my battery. I went from 65% to 8% in 3h of time.

 

[KennyB123]

Sorry if this has been asked/answered - but how do I change the brightness of my SP3? I'm on the latest version, all updates applied. Thanks.

 

[mcsenerd]

Dude you really need to get out of "everyone sees the world as I do" mode. ...

Also, which direction does the wheel on your mouse roll, up and down or sideways? Always felt weird for me to scroll vertically with my mouse only to have the tiles move horizontally.
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With regards to retaining the Taskbar in tablet mode, remember this is still a preview build. They are likely looking for feedback on that. If they add jump lists to the tiles, I agree they really don't need the Taskbar.

Who's holding on to "seeing the world" any certain way? It's a tablet...you drive with a finger...why in the world would I care about what you do with a mouse that you have to plug in? Have you tried "scrolling" with the pen? Don't think it'll work out like you think it should... Look, like I said, I think the majority of the tail-hurt population that couldn't get over the interruption to their Windows 3.1-driven world will love the changes made to the OS. They're certainly changes that will make them feel more comfortable and secure in their preferred workflows. I'm down with that and it's great. However...thus far, I've seen nothing that implies to me that from a pure tablet operation perspective that there aren't any superb usability advances there and perhaps even retrenchment. It feels far more XP Tablet Edition-ish to me more than anything... Look, I'm not bashing on MS here. For everyone that dogs on 8/8.1 that I meet, I usually can convince them that there were pretty valid reasons for some of the decisions that they made. I think it was just such a shock to the system of most combined with the fact that most of the installed base still didn't have access to true touch based computing that led to the general feeling that 8/8.1 was a failed code-line. As far as it being a tech preview...I concur. With each update I keep hoping that they'll bring the tablet functionality back more in line with their original vision (which I think was pretty good...or I wouldn't own every Surface Pro that they've ever made). I will not however...toot a make believe horn that they're making things better for tablet owners when that doesn't mesh well with reality.

Now...On to the good stuff here. I realize I'm running the preview on my SP2, so my experience is totally different than the SP3 folks here, but this version has been nothing but stable for me. No crashes and boots up lightning fast (which is something I strangely had issues with on the prior build) and just about everything I've tried running has worked and worked well. I do see a lot of quirky UI bugs here. Things like the power status not completely updating...as in when looking at the battery status it shows as "Not Charging" but the battery percentage continues to rise and it shows that it's plugged in. Cortana has been major buggy, but I wasn't holding any false hope of it being perfect out of the gate anyway, and I sorta echo some of the thoughts that I just don't know what "real" improvement its presence offers on a traditional computing device. The notifications window has been pretty weird too, with repetitive messages sometimes getting put in there and every once in a while a notification gets stuck until I reboot. I kind of like the Notifications section so far, but I think they should make the expand link a bit bigger just for ease of finger usage reasons. I also find it hard to believe that there isn't easy access to brightness settings on a freakin tablet. C'mon folks how hard can it be to provide that? Overall, I like this release the best thus far just simply for performance reasons. On another note, I ran the thing on battery only yesterday and I got at least 4+ hours before I had to plug the SP2 in to recharge. So I guess for a preview version it's not too terrible on the battery, but there's certainly still room for optimization.