Tag: Surface
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Don’t use Firefox on Surface 4 Pro
When using Firefox the screen frequently fails to refresh and black pixels appear everywhere. It is also not possible to tear-off a tab to a second monitor. Others have had this issue and blame the Intel graphics card in the Surface. This is probably true given all the other well known issues the Surface 4 Pro…
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How long does it take to reset Windows 10?
My own laptop has broken so I needed to borrow a new one from work. I took a pre-used Microsoft Surface 3. After I had transferred my data and applications it began behaving strangely. I ran and found that there were errors. Therefore I decided to reset the Microsoft Surface 3. “Reset” is a feature…
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[Fixed] Windows 10 roaming profiles break Edge and other packaged applications
— Update 2017-12-15 — I think Roaming Profiles are now deprecated. I will be moving all my users to Local Profiles supplemented by User Experience Virtualisation (UE-V) over the next 12 months. See comments below. — I have recently been imaging Microsoft Surface 3 computers for use by staff in a school. All our staff…
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Support Users with both Windows 10 and Windows 7 profiles
We are starting to test Windows 10 in our enterprise. We have roaming users and there are known issues around profile management. From AppSense, In fact, if you look into profile version compatibility (you should, it’s a fascinating read) you’ll see that profiles are only ever compatible between one desktop and one server. So, Windows…
Dr James Bayley 