{"id":8183,"date":"2021-03-08T12:40:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T12:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8183"},"modified":"2021-03-08T16:45:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T16:45:12","slug":"setting-up-a-surface-pen-with-a-new-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/03\/setting-up-a-surface-pen-with-a-new-pc.htm","title":{"rendered":"Setting up a Surface Pen with a new PC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve been using Microsoft Surface devices for work for years now. Put simply, the company I work for<\/a> is a Microsoft consulting and services business. So you would expect us to “walk the walk” as well as “talking the talk”, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each time I get a new PC, I seem have challenges setting up the Surface Pen. So, today, after getting my pen up and running with a new Surface Laptop 3, I thought I should write about it (or at least post some links to the information that I used).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was struggling to pair the Surface Pen in my Windows 10 Bluetooth settings. I pressed and held the top button, but there was no light. I unpaired it from the old PC and tried again. No change. Was it the battery charge? The Surface Pro that I had just unpaired from said the pen had 21% battery charge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I decided to pop the battery out and test it. My battery tester’s needle didn’t move. 21% was clearly not enough. So, I popped in a new AAAA battery. Bingo! The pen’s light was illuminated and pairing was successful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So, my advice would be:<\/p>\n\n\n\n