surface pro 3 windows button not working

You should also know that you basically have to Hack your W10 in order to do this with the various tricks out on the Internet. This is analogous in the old days where parents who were owners of desktop PCs would lock up their keyboards and or mice in a locking file cabinet or gun safe. Pulling the hard drive where the Windows 10 OS normally resides clearly makes that work if you have to have external media plugged into the laptop to make it work. Some folks have kids or grandkids in their house and when they leave, they don't want them to be able to use their laptop at all.

That being said, if you Google it and also look around at YouTube, lots of people are doing this for one reason and another such as better protection from viruses/malware, privacy protection (in W10 primarily), and over-all security. This is a limitation of Windows and is also part of the licensing agreement they have with PC makers *including Surface which is a division of Microsoft*. You should know that Windows PCs are not designed to boot from external media such as hard drives and flash drives.

Surface pro 3 windows button not working