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I am wondering if it is possible to lock-down a Microsoft Surface RT tablet by allowing one application to always be in the foreground and restricting users from doing anything else.
Is it possible to lock down a Surface RT in this manner?
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I use my Surface Pro to remote desktop to various other machines. When I do, the display is crazy small because Surface Pro uses 150% scaling for it's local Windows display, but this is not the default for the machines I'm remoting into. But I can't set the scaling when I'm remoted to the other machine, because this setting can't be changed from a remote session.
Is there any convenient way to configure remote Windows machines to use the 150% display scaling when remoted into from the Surface Pro?
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With the release of a new tablet, I'm inclined to wonder how similar it is to other tablet devices, specifically those by Google and Apple. Is privilege escalation possible on a Surface? What I'm referring to is the equivalent process of Jailbreaking on iOS devices, and Rooting on Android devices. Or is the Surface more like a desktop OS, where privilege escalation is the simple matter of knowing the admin password?
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I was reading the specs about MS Surface and saw that there are two Models offered. One with Windows RT and one with Windows 8 Pro. I'm wondering what's the difference between those two OS?
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I have a tablet, a Surface Pro, and I have a micro SD card that is permanently inserted. I use it to store media files like music and video.
Windows, recognizing that it is a removable drive, deletes files immediately instead of putting them into a recycle bin. In addition, applications such as SkyDrive and Dropbox refuse to sync onto the card since it is removable.
I know that formatting the micro SD card NTFS, and mounting it as a folder on the C: drive, enables SkyDrive and Dropbox to sync onto the removable drive, but it doesn't affect file deletion.
I've also heard that various USB drives can be altered to be treated by Windows as non-removable drives by flipping the removable bit. However, this does not appear to be an option for card readers, at least not the one in my Surface.
Is there any way to enable the recycle bin on this drive, and generally make this drive be treated as a non-removable drive?
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As I'm planning on getting a Surface RT tablet, I was wondering if it is possible to install Visual Studio 12 on it for app development.
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I've opened fullscreen mode in Internet Explorer or Chrome on the Desktop. How do I exit out of it again?
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Is it possible to install a new operating system like ubuntu on the Surface, instead of windows 8?
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I just got my Microsoft Surface Tablet. So far it rocks, but I would like to be able to get to the main screen that shows date/time and background image (or, the "Lock Screen"). Thus far I have only been able to get there by hitting the power button twice. Is there a way to get there without hitting the power button?
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The top row of the MS Surface Type keyboard mostly consists of special keys for increasing volume, searching, accessing settings, etc. But if you hold the "Fn" key, then that row becomes the standard function keys (F1 - F12). I'd like remap the keys so that without "Fn" pressed, it is the standard F# keys, and with the "Fn" press, it is the special key. So basically flip what the key is for "Fn pressed" vs. "Fn not pressed".
What is the easiest way for me to accomplish this?
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The new Surface Pro 3 comes with a pen with a purple button at the end. When pressed, it causes OneNote to open shortly thereafter. Is it possible to change the application that opens this way? Perhaps a registry entry?
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I have had a surface pro for a while now and I have decided to try and boot from USB on it.
It won't boot from it.
I have tried an external hardrive with Windows Vista on, a Windows 98 Microsoft-dos boot disk and even a Windows repair disk on an external disk drive. All of these devices boot on everyone of my computers except my surface.
I have tried disabling secure boot keys in the BIOS and I have tried booting via Windows 8 advances options and by holding down the bottom volume rocker at start up. None of it works.
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I purchased the Surface Pro 2 a few days ago (release day) and it has been running great, but over the last 3 days I have encountered a weird charging issue.
I like to drain my battery down to near 8% range before I charge it, and sometimes it will go to sleep or hibernate before I get a chance to plug it in.
This issue has happened to me 3 times this far over the last 3 days.
When at 8% battery, I plug in my device.
The first two times, the battery icon would display plugged in, not charging, and the 8% would continue to drop to 0%, still saying plugged in, not charging. When it happened just now, the icon displayed plugged in, charging, but continued to drop to 0%.
The first time I figured this was just an issue where I was drawing too much current for it to be powered on, and charge at the same time.
When in this state, I accidentally removed the charger, and the device powered down, power loss, as expected, however, when the device booted back up, it showed that it was plugged in, and charging, and that my battery was at 100% (it had been on the charger for a while), as it should be... This was a genuine 100% charge, as the battery lasted its full life after being unplugged at this point.
The second and third time this happened I paid more close attention to it, and the same thing happened. If I reboot, it becomes fixed, but still, if the charger is disconnected, loss of power, device force powers down, but if I initiate a shutdown / reboot, everything is back to normal..
Has anybody else encountered this issue? Is it something with Windows8? Is it a known issue with the Surface Pro 2? Do I have a hardware issue?
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I am trying to connect my Microsoft Surface tablet to an ad-hoc network that I setup on my Windows-7 desktop machine. The Surface machine can see and connect to other hotspots, but it cannot see the ad-hoc network, whereas a second Windows-7 laptop sitting next to the Surface machine can see it.
What would cause the ad-hoc network to be visible to Windows 7 but not to Surface?
Additional data:
Windows-7 is on domain, but Surface is not.
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