I'd kill out the recovery partition and move it to a flash drive to recovery some space on the SSD.
The recovery partition is only 8GB and the Surface Pro is clean of malware, so I could see restoring this thing to factory settings. So, I will leave that alone, at least for the time being.
DPI set to more than 100%?
Out of the box, it's set at 150%. And the IE browser is set to zoom to 150% right out of the box.
The touch keyboard works pretty much the same as any tablet device. You have to 2 finger type, you cannot keep your hands resting on the keys and use it like a real keyboard. At least, I don't seem to be able to.
I'm using the Surface now for this post, but using the Type cover keyboard.
Well, first...it magnetically attaches to the Surface Pro, where the power adapter goes. It doesn't have any other storage location as far as I can tell. So, my gut tells me it's going to get lost rather quickly since you have to detach it to recharge the Surface. And it's $30 accessory if you need to replace it. It works, and it recognizes my handwriting, but it's a wee bit slow doing it. I find I am just sitting there waiting for it. It gets most words right, but does mangle some. It's like using Swype on an Android.
One thing I find odd with the pen is that you cannot scroll websites and such using it as the touch device. You have to use the slider bars on the sides of the browser. Just feels odd to have to switch between finger tips and the pen in order to accomplish some tasks.
Well, I am sure that I would get used to it. But on my desktops and laptops, I hit F3 for the search in my browser and it's second nature. Oh well, not the end of the world.
I'm only like 20 feet from the AP right now, and I'm only getting 1/2 signal. My laptop and phone are both significantly stronger. Hopefully they get this resolved.
Well, obviously apps getting installed create tiles. I've deleted far more than I have added myself. On the Surface,I will use the Start Screen a whole lot more than my laptop. On the laptop, I pretty much don't even see the Start Screen.
I think I must have great vision as I recently used a Dell XPS AIO with like the 2560 by whatever resolution it is, it's above 1080p but I'm lazy right now and don't want to figure it out. Changing the DPI to 150% proved to be real effective on the Desktop, made things MUCH easier to touch and view.
Some things look great, other things do not. It's real hit or miss. Like I said above, 150% DPI is default on this device. Thus far the only thing that has looked really bad was RDP. Things were just way too small to really use. Most other things like Control Panel and Windows menus are fine enough.
Strange how the gestures aren't supported with the touchpad. You're doing them correctly I'm assuming? Odd, maybe Microsoft REALLY wants you to touch Windows 8.
Well, I can do the gestures just fine on my Dell laptop with Windows 8...so I think I have a good handle on how to do them. I'll have to scour the web and see if there is a driver or something for the type cover to enable gesture support. But I am sure it wasn't a concern since this is a touchscreen device and why not just touch the screen rather than use gestures on the touchpad to simulate it.