Getting the new Surface App additional pen settings to work on a SP3 [Caution read post #3]

[Guzzler3]

UPDATE: I no longer recommend trying this. See follow up post below.
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Okay,

This will allow both the New SP4 Pen and the Old SP3 pen to gain the new Button Customizations in the new Surface App to work on a Surface Pro 3.

First you need to download the current Surface Pro 4 Drivers from Microsoft.
Go to: Surface Pro 4 Drivers and Firmware and then select the red Download button.
Select the SurfacePro4_Win10_151203_0.zip file and press the "Next" button.
When the download completes, extract the ZIP file.

Now go into Settings, Devices, Bluetooth, click on "Surface Pen", and then "Remove Device".

Then in Cortana enter "Device Manager" (without quotation marks) and open the device manager control panel program.
Expand the "Human Interface Devices" and right click and select "Uninstall" the following:
HID-compliant Pen
Surface Pen Settings

Select "Delete the driver software for this device" if it is an option.

Restart after both have been uninstalled.

After the restarting, you are going go back to the extracted Surface Pro Drivers and navigate to the following directories:
\SurfacePro4_Win10_151203_0\SurfacePro4_Win10_151203_0\Drivers\Pen\
SurfacePen
SurfacePenPairing
SurfacePenSettingsDriver

In each of the three above directories will be an .INF file, right click and select "Install".

Restart your system.

Then go back into Settings, Devices, Bluetooth. Do a LONG press on the top button on the pen, and pair you pen to your system.

Now you can go back into the Surface App and you will have the additional "Button Customizations".

Enjoy! :excited:

 

[smbishop]

Finally had a chance to try this and it worked perfectly on my SP3. Thank you very much for sharing!

 

[Guzzler3]

I'm going to have to no longer recommend doing this.

When Windows Update does it's normal check in the background it will revert the drivers back. Then you run into a driver config error, and you start to get blue screens.

 

[RumoredNow]

When Windows Update does it's normal check in the background it will revert the drivers back. Then you run into a driver config error, and you start to get blue screens.

Title updated.

 

[loribinca]

wasn't this stuff supposed to work seamlessly - it's not like it's the same company making the product ... oh .. wait....

 

[rbcameron]

The tragic thing is that this procedure shows that there is nothing in the hardware (tablet or pen) that prevents customisation of buttons, just a (marketing?) decision by MS not to include this ability for S3/SP3.

 

[Dennis German]

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[rbcameron]

Is that like the two-finger salute?