There’s so much more to the Surface Pro 4 than its status as an “evolutionary upgrade” suggests. Using these Surface Pro 4 tips and tricks well help you unlock the Windows 2-in-1’s most. On a Mac, there’s the Mac App Store and on your Surface, there’s the Microsoft Store. To open the Microsoft Store, type Microsoft Store in the search box on the taskbar. Explore the Microsoft Store. Video calls and messaging. Message and video chat with family and friends on your Surface with Skype. Millions of people use Skype every day, so your friends and family may already have accounts.
What resources, tips, tricks, and productivity hacks would you give to a pretty typical office team that just got brand new Surface Pros? They have a full Office 2016 suite and our email is on a managed exchange server.BackgroundI am not a newbie. I've been on this tablet wave since Windows XP Tablet Edition and have had a tablet of some form or another since 2002. I have a Surface Pro now and I've had every surface except for 2. But, I've been so steeped in it for so long that I take a lot of it for granted.Half of my team just got Surface Pros and they don't know how to maximize them.
I'd love some input on where I might start getting them on a pathway to optimization (and I might learn a thing or two as well).Thanks in advance.Get used to the fact you now have a touchscreen. There are lots of little gestures that are much faster than using the mouse (e.g. Swiping from the right side of the screen to bring up the Action Centre). It's really hard to go back to a non-touchscreen laptop after using a Surface for a while.Set up Windows Hello.Download Autohotkey and that improves the functionality of the pen button. What you set them to depends on your workflow. Personally, I use single tap to open OneNote (if OneNote is already open it creates a blank page), and double tap to trigger the screenshot clipping tool. Some people use it to control Powerpoint presentations, that kind of thing.Enable device tracking.
It's not gonna miraculously rescue your Surface if it's misplaced/stolen, but it's something, and something is better than nothing.Encourage users to use Edge over Chrome, mostly for the much more optimised battery consumption, but also because there are various cooked-in features that were designed for Surface (e.g. Pinch to zoom, smooth scrolling, swipe gestures, VP9 hybrid hardware acceleration, etc.). Firefox Quantum is a pretty good middle ground, just don't use Chrome.Keeping your brightness above 50% when not plugged in will discharge your battery pretty damn quickly.While I'm on battery tweaks: disable Cortana unless you're that one guy who uses it all the time, disable wifi-sense/wifi when asleep, enable hibernation mode, don't run too many background apps whenever possible.People are gonna lose the pens. You can attach the pen to the side of the Surface and it'll stick to it because of the magnets, but it's probably going to fall off when you pick it up. Recommend keeping it in a pouch/pocket rather than relying on keeping it loosely attached to the Surface.Get a half-decent wireless mouse.Not really Surface-specific, but Windows key + left or right will pin windows on that side of the screen. Always kinda surprises me when people don't know about this.
Much appreciated. Thanks!A couple questions/comments:Download Autohotkey and that improves the functionality of the pen button. What you set them to depends on your workflow. Personally, I use single tap to open OneNote (if OneNote is already open it creates a blank page), and double tap to trigger the screenshot clipping tool. Some people use it to control Powerpoint presentations, that kind of thing.Dope. I didn't know this existed.Enable device tracking. It's not gonna miraculously rescue your Surface if it's misplaced/stolen, but it's something, and something is better than nothing.What program do you recommend for this?Encourage users to use Edge over Chrome, mostly for the much more optimised battery consumption, but also because there are various cooked-in features that were designed for Surface (e.g.
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Pinch to zoom, smooth scrolling, swipe gestures, VP9 hybrid hardware acceleration, etc.). Firefox Quantum is a pretty good middle ground, just don't use Chrome.I've never gotten used to edge. Honestly, the one petty thing that is really keeping me connected to chrome is the history syncing to my android.
Do you know how to get around that?Not really Surface-specific, but Windows key + left or right will pin windows on that side of the screen. Always kinda surprises me when people don't know about this.No shit! I showed this to my wife the other day and she thought I was some sort of tech wizard.One tip of my own. It has two killer features. One is a calendar that shows you what notes you wrote in on any given day and the other is the easy right click way to rotate images and inserts.
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Run the following command in an elevated command prompt in Windows:netsh interface tcp set global rss=enablednetsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled (normal is default)netsh int ip set global taskoffload=disabledI have found that this options help making the Wifi connection more stable.More and a very good tool here:Note: The program needs to be ran as Administrator, some option will not work in Windows 8.1 but it will not harm anything. I recommend to read the above guide and apply manually the recommendations posted there.