User guide
Table Of Contents
- Meet Surface Pro
- Setup
- The basics
- Get to know Surface
- Touch, keyboard, mouse, and pen
- Accounts
- Sign in and out
- All about apps
- Install apps
- Personalize your Surface
- Connect devices
- Storage, files, and backup
- Networking
- Built-in apps
- Additional info you should know
- Keep Surface up to date
- Windows Defender and Windows SmartScreen
- Windows Firewall
- BitLocker Drive Encryption
- Accessibility
- Speech recognition
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Take a screen shot
- Default programs
- Work with files and apps on another PC
- Restore, refresh, or reset Surface
- Add Windows Media Center
- Surface Pro BIOS/UEFI
- BitLocker recovery key
- Clean and care for Surface
- Get Help and Support
- That’s it!
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Storage, files, and backup
Surface Pro has a hard drive that comes in two sizes: 64 GB and 128 GB.
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System software uses significant storage space; your storage capacity will be less. See surface.com/storage 1 GB = 1 billion bytes.
How much local storage space do I have?
To see how much storage space you have available:
1. Open the Settings charm, tap or click Change PC settings.
2. Tap or click General.
3. Scroll down to Available storage, to see how much storage space you have. You can tap or click View
app sizes to see how much space each app is using.
Note Pre-installed software and apps use a significant amount of storage space. To learn how much, see
Surface disk space FAQ on Surface.com.
Surface storage options
In addition to the internal storage, here are a few storage options:
Removable storage, such as a USB flash drive or microSD memory card.
Cloud storage (SkyDrive)—up to 7 GB free.
Another computer on your network. You can open and save files to other computers on your network.
For more info, see the Find shared items on other computers topic in this guide.
Removable storage options
You can use USB storage or a microSD memory card for your documents, music, videos, and pictures.