
Now click the Actions tab and click Edit. Make sure the checkbox that says “repeat task every” isn’t ticked. Set up the times you want (like 4am or whatever). Choose “On a Schedule” from the top pulldown. A new window will open called New Trigger. Click the New button at the bottom of the window. In the window that opens, click on the second Tab, labeled Triggers. In the topmost pane you will see Windows Defender Scheduled Scan as the third item. In the leftmost pane, navigate to Task Scheduler Library > Microsoft > Windows > Windows Defender. Worse, Windows Defender isn’t turned on at all, unless you buy from the Microsoft Store (I did). Instead, you have to use the incredibly confusing Task Scheduler that people don’t even know exists and never use. Microsoft in their infinite wisdom disabled the simple scheduling that was in Win7 Security Essentials. Set Windows Defender to actually scan regularly: It should gain you about 17GB back, but I haven’t actually done it yet myself. Now you can delete the recovery partition! There’s a bunch of ways to do this, such as easy to use software, or using command line stuff. You can bail at that point by turning the tablet off again If it works, you’ll go to start installing Windows. Save and say yes when it asks to reset.
Pull down to USB, which should now be there.The key here is that you need the UEFI option to be available so it sees the USB drive. When the Samsung logo appears, hit the Windows home button. Make sure the tablet is actually off all the way.Instead, we want to test that you can boot from USB first! Don’t pick “delete the recovery partition” yet.Put in the USB stick, and make sure you select it as the destination recovery drive.“Create a recovery drive” is the one you want. Select “Settings” – that will give you the results you need. But on the right side will be a column for filtering results. When the results come up, you’ll have nothing.Swipe in from the right side to get the charms bar.First, add a drive! Buy a 64GB SD microSDXC card.If you’re brave, check here: e-open-unit-yet.html In the case of the Smart PC Pro, people are even buying 256 or 480GB SSD’s – unlike the Surface Pro, the machine has some user-serviceable parts, and you can replace the SSD without a huge amount of hassle.
First off, don’t even bother getting a 64GB model. I am posting it here to save other people all the pain.
Here’s some of what I did, located after insane amounts of Googling and multiple days.