Bremen Cole
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Looking forward to that trackpad update. Scares me though that they never noticed how unresponsive the trakpad is until you took one into a store.
The only issue I've had with my type cover 2 is sometimes the mouse from the track pad isn't responsive (pointer not on the screen)...i have to detach and reattach, and all is good. Sounds like a similar issue.
1. RESET SURFACE PRO 2 back to factory default, Do a RESET not a REFRESH and then log back in with your live or local account. DO NOT PERFORM WINDOWS UPDATES!
2. Download the October driver pack from microsoft and exact to a folder on your hard drive. https://forums.windowscentral.com/e...ww.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fdow&token=RX7QO7vk [...] x?id=40856
3. Create a text file in the top level root folder of the extracted driver pack with the following script. Make sure to rename this file with a .PS1 extension and not .TXT
$ScriptPath = Split-Path -parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition
$files = get-childitem -path $Scriptpath -recurse -filter *.inf
foreach ($file in $files)
{
Write-host "Injecting driver $file"
pnputil -i -a $file.FullName
}
4. Open powershell as admin(right click and choose to launch powershell as administrator
5. Run the command: set-executionpolicy UNRESTRICTED and say Y to confirm. This will allow you to run the unsigned powershell script you created. If you want to lock this back down later you can run set-executionpolicy RESTRICTED after you run the script in step 6.
6. In the admin powershell window navigate to C:\FOLDERWITHDRIVERUPDATES\ by using the CD command
7. Run ./Scriptyoucreated.ps1 make sure to have the ./ before the name of the script file. You will see it begin to install all of the drivers in the driver pack.
8. When it is done, reboot and perform all windows updates.
9. All fixed! No more unknown device.
Anyone elses Skydrive account randomly disconnect and not allow to reconnect? Get an error to check account in PC Settings, when everything looks fine...requires me to restart my Pro 2.
Man, this is happening more and more frequently now...very frustrating. its not like 1/10 attempts, its at least 50% of the time, a reboot usually fixes the issue. No connectivity problems with Skydrive on my iPhone or via browser...just using the Skydrive Metro app.
How about not using the Metro app, and using the desktop.
I recall having a lot of problem with 8.1 Beta with SkyDrive Metro app, on my laptop and desktop.
I don't have a SP2 yet to test.
Just an idea of a possible fix. How about uninstall the Modern UI app and re-install it.
Mine is buggier by the day ((
Even just to type this reply I had to tap the text box 40 times. Each time the keyboard pops up for one second them disappears. Finally I managed to hit a key before it disappeared and it stayed.
I wanted this to be what it could have been so bad. But its just too buggy and the pen is forever too inaccurate for my doodles. Can't reliably trace a line.
Its like they didn't even have a test phase. This could have been such a game changer in my field of work but they blew it. Every time I try to show it off for co workers it bugs out. Photoshop crashes 50 percent of the time upon opening. This seems likes some half baked Taiwanese product
Ie metro is a joke. Swipe to go back reliably breaks in 10 mins or less of browsing. I maybe get 1.5 hours battery life browsing the web now. Such an immense let down
Hi all,
If hou have some drivers issue with your surface pro 2 after reset it, like ''unknown device'' in device manager, or old drivers version even after the windows update, try this
Ended up returning a Surface Pro 2 due to driver errors that even the Microsoft Store people could not resolve. That appears to be what they tried as their last ditch effort but it was still stuck with unknown device and unending issues with the type cover. The first two people at the answer desk who looked at it were clueless but the third certainly seemed to be familiar with the issue but could not manage to resolve. Quite disappointing for a $1300 device. No point in keeping if it could only occasionally see the type cover and would try to find devices every time it woke from hibernation, so it had to go back.
That's too bad, they didn't let you exchange it for a different one? Did you try refreshing the device before returning it? A real shame the Surface venture didn't fair well for you, I love mine to bits! Well, happy trails wherever your next tech purchase takes you.
That's too bad, they didn't let you exchange it for a different one? Did you try refreshing the device before returning it? A real shame the Surface venture didn't fair well for you, I love mine to bits! Well, happy trails wherever your next tech purchase takes you.
I'm not sure if this is an actual issue or not, but I can't seem to watch many embedded YouTube videos on various websites. I assume this might just be a global thing with Flash?