Recent content by shawnthor

The link is not working anymore. Any ideas?

What are the best settings for this?

Thanks for all of the help. I have updated and installed software on my Surface, do you think this will do anything for my system? Also, when doing the scf /scannow, should the directory be pointed to the c:\ or c:\windows \system32? Been sitting at 11% complete the scan for a long time now.

Did you need to obtain a product key for Windows 10 Pro from your Surface to do the clean wipe? What is the tech bench upgrade program? Additionally, how has your battery life been? Thanks.

You did the throttling tip and set the max on battery at 60%. What did you set the max when plugged in? Thanks

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Did you restore the operating system to factory settings? Also, you can call them on the phone and they will walk you through a restore. If the restore doesn't work they should replace it.

*Update* Purchased a Surface Pro 4 from a physical Microsoft store on 5.22.2016. When I was talking to the associate, she told me that all Microsoft stores including their own had to send out all of their SP4s about two weeks ago and received all new devices. At first, I thought she was just...

Wonder why this is needed? Just got my device yesterday and didn't see this until this morning.

Possible, but I can tell you from where I live, the local retailers have messed up display models, so they would have old stock in most cases. Microsoft would have to have done some damage control on these devices in the last 6 or so months, so the older the units the more likely a hardware...

How is your battery life?

Have we seen any increases in battery life since the two major updates in April and May?

What were the issues?

Where did you purchase yours? Online or in-store? I am trying to decide whether to purchase from Microsoft's online or physical store. I would assume that the online store would have a more updated version of the device because of the volume that they are selling compared to the store, but not...

No one can be for sure. From what I understand the next generation of Intel processors won't be out until Q3 2016 at the earliest. Additionally, they might wait until they have Redstone 2 ready to install on the SP5, which would give it another selling point. They could avoid messing with...