{"id":1733,"date":"2013-01-04T20:14:55","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T20:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/supportmii.com\/pcdata\/?p=1733"},"modified":"2013-01-04T20:14:55","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T20:14:55","slug":"microsoft-surface-4-row-tiles-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/supportmii.com\/pcdata\/?p=1733","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Surface – 4 Row Tiles Hack"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATED SOLUTION<\/strong><\/p>\n

Through regedit you can apply this tweak.<\/p>\n

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurr\u00a0 entVersionExplorerScaling]
\n“MonitorSize”=”13.1”<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.sendspace.com\/file\/m8cvrj<\/a><\/p>\n

I did find a way but it affects other settings so this isn’t really a good
\nsolution. What you send of doing is disabling “NVIDIA Tegra 3” from the Display
\nadapater dropdown. From there the screen will reboot and you will be left with
\nMicrosoft Basic Display Adapter. You will see you have 4 tiles on the metro ui.
\nThe performance is awful since the basic video has 256 MB, whereas the Tegra has
\naround 763MB.<\/p>\n

You can easily enable the “NVIDIA Tegra 3” back from the
\ndevice manager for it to reboot the screen and go back to normal.<\/p>\n

I
\nbelieve the reason this works: How to get four rows of tiles on your Surface RT | JG’s Tech
\nThoughts<\/a><\/p>\n

-> is because you are preventing the surface won’t
\n“reading” what kind of display you have. So you will see the 4 tiles on boot,
\nbut the moment you put it on standby it will jump back to 3 tiles.
\n-> So
\nit seems the default Mobile PC Display” is what is causing it to be optimized
\nfor the surface. Not sure if there is a way around it.<\/p>\n

So you could make
\na batch file to disable and re-enable if you wanted to..Web browsing and youtube
\nseems okay. Probably depending on the codec used, video application is very
\nslow, and some apps probably too.\"\"\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATED SOLUTION Through regedit you can apply this tweak. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurr\u00a0 entVersionExplorerScaling] “MonitorSize”=”13.1” http:\/\/www.sendspace.com\/file\/m8cvrj I did find a way but it affects other settings so this isn’t really a good solution. What you send of...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17,27,28,39,40,41,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-configuration","category-cool","category-gpu","category-graphic","category-management","category-memory","category-microsoft-surface","category-secret"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/supportmii.com\/pcdata\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/supportmii.com\/pcdata\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/supportmii.com\/pcdata\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supportmii.com\/pcdata\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supportmii.com\/pcdata\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/supportmii.com\/pcdata\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/supportmii.com\/pcdata\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supportmii.com\/pcdata\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supportmii.com\/pcdata\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}