Really, don't let the stylus decide it for you. If you like the Surface RT, get it!
Hey guys, I have a question...
How can I play videos direcly from USB? It's not working... When I plug any flash drive or external HDD, I can only explore the files, but can't play the videos. Am I doing anything wrong?
In theory, yeah that works. Lots of potential pitfalls, though. Make sure that sensitive data is stored with ACLs that only allow the Admin user access. Don't use UAC to gain access to that data from the non-Admin account via the Admin credentials (this modifies the ACLs). Hope there's no local elevation of privilege vulnerabilities (there are some, whether they're currently known or not).
Mind, these attacks are only relevant in the case of somebody gaining access to your Surface already. Me knowing you Microsoft Account username and password wouldn't let me remotely log into your Surface, for example.
Thank you for your response. I wish I could say your answer puts me at ease. The fact you are from Seattle makes me give more credence to your statement about the existing vulnerabilities in the elevation of privileges area. Do you know if a new BitLocker Recovery Key is created when a user establishes a new Local Administrative User Account and changes the Windows Live User account to Non-Admin? If so, when does this happen exactly? I thought I read on the MicroSoft website that a recovery key is only established when signing into MicroSoft for the first time. It seems to me that if its the same BitLocker recovery key after making the User Account changes I talked about as a proposed security procedure, then the ultimate decision as to whether to reveal the contents of my surface may rest with someone other than myself because hackers could steal the recovery key from MicroSoft, or MicroSoft could be forced to provide this recovery key to a third party.
If this concern is valid, or am I missing something here? Could you recommend any procedure for putting the final decision to reveal data back into the Surface owners hands?
Apps use the Windows Location Framework for getting your location. The WLF will use WiFi data by default, but if there's a GPS available it will also use that (for more precision, or to get a fix where WiFi triangulation doesn't work).
If you use an Exchange server, just set it up in the built-in Mail app (or Calendar app, or People app...) and everything will automatically sync with Outlook.
For updates which modify any user-facing text, yes. Locale-specific stuff is stored in .MUI files which accompany the binaries. To save space, most versions of Windows don't install all the MUIs by default - they're individually small, but there are a ton of them. Switching to a new language for the first time unpacks new MUIs, but updates that were previously installed for those MUIs will be missing.
The update process should be very quick with tiny downloads, though.
Just a quick reply about my problem. I performed several restores on my Surface and figured out the the apps start to crash after I implement the tip 13. Enable Hidden Start Screen Animation, from the [REF] *Surface Hints, Tips and Registry Tweaks topic.
Thank you but the problem remains with the calender app. When i am trying to add my google account it says that sync is unavailable.
Hi.
I've tried lot of times to add my Google account to my RT but allways says that the details are incorect.
Does anyone knows the reason for that?
Often, when I change the system volume using the volume rocker it kinda gets stuck into it. For instance if I press the Vol+ button it goes all the way up to 100 and the volume indicator won't fade away until Vol- is pressed. Also it doesn't seem to recognize any touch input while being stuck.
Also it seems to be a software misfunction since I can't tell anything weird regarding the volume rocker. Seems to work normal on the hardware side.
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1. why does imap in the windows rt mail app works not correct, i think there must be a restriction for sync of max directorys, so the app is not usable, i missing many directorys from my german 1and1 mail hoster (the same on desktop pc win8 pro)?
2. why does the surface rt go offline on 5% battery, shutting down os and no oppinion to start the tablet with the less power?
3. why i cannot deinstall apps from windows rt app store?
4. how i can global disable live titles?
5. very great powershell v3, but i missing "powershell ise", will it be available in future?
6. how i can switch my language from my default osd-keyboard between writing this words (from german to english), i found no key on osd for this?
7. how i can change to different skydrive-accounts in metro-app (the mapped 7gb ist wrong, based on @outlook-com), becouse i have a another old account with 25gb, based on @web.de)
8. does in future coming a fix which enable automatic osd-keyboard in desktop-mode?