[Windows 10 Mobile] geekempire:
I have been conducting a review of the new HP X3 for my job, and there are two major "problems/things" are driving me nuts. I am a 28 year application developer, I have built my own Windows CE environments since PocketPC 2003 and my daily driver is a unlocked 950XL, so I am not some noob. But at this point this device has me stumped on Microsoft or HP motives with this device.

Just an overview, the device comes with a nice continuum dock with two USB ports and a USB C port, so basically three in total. It also has a display port as well, which to most people will require a DVI converter:confused:. As a developer remote desktop was my first stop. This option does work, but you quickly find out the that you don't like the mouse speed or the pointer size isn't exactly what you want as far as the overall RDP session. OK, so you go to settings and guess what. One option, mouse button left or right...Really HP and/or Microsoft????? At least give me some sort of mouse speed control. I was able to write a complete UWP application using Blend and Visual Studio through remote desktop, but if it had not been for the testing of the device I would have ended up pulling out my laptop and had the app done in 1/4 the time. S

o please expose some mouse settings

, I have been through the Image Design Control tool for the provisioning and their WAP files from the ffu images but can not find the settings that I could configure to change this. My 950XL on the same HP dock with the same mouse and keyboard works 1000% times better, so it is something they have in a setting, hopefully not in a build.

Next I try and get the great dock that comes with the device to sync with a desktop. I have not tried this with the HD-500, so maybe this isn't fair. But as far as I can tell you can not have your device sync to a workstation when it is docked. I tried connecting the USB-C to a normal USB port on the desktop (both USB3 and USB2) and the device gets the dialog on the device saying USB error. So I try a straight through normal USB male to male cable, same error. Very annoying thing at first, but for a developer it gets worse.

So you end up taking the device off the dock and connect it using a UBS-C to a USB3 cable directly to the desktop. Finally the device is seen by the OS and Visual Studio. Things are looking up, workstation makes the ding, you can browse the files, visual studio shows the device and you think everything is ready. You go back to visual studio and set the break points in the code and press debug. The device turned off when you first sit it down but at first you don't even think about it. So you pick the device up get the screen running so visual studio starts trying to connect for the debugging session. Your humming along and visual studio debugger hits a null exception error and breaks. You sit down the phone and turn to visual studio to check out which object only to find out the phone turned off and the error along with the debug session had been cut off. I really don't understand whether is the light sensor or accelerator that HP has set here but it has to be a setting. My 950XL does not exhibit this behavior. I can see exposing a setting such as this as an option, but I cannot find the setting controlling this behavior if it is an option or something HP is enforcing for some unknown reason.

So if anyone can point me in the direction to the following options and/or settings it would be helpful.

1. Where are the mouse pointer speed settings for USB connect mouse including when using Continuum. (Registry settings or visual don't care)

2. On the HP X3 does anyone know how to turn off the setting to turn off when sat down. Trying to figure out if this is the black out of light or when it is acceleration setting.