Getting back the Command Prompt in Windows 8.1

Microsoft decided in their infinite Wisdom to change the Windows "Quick Links" menu in Windows 8.1 so that the default layout removes the shortcut to the Command Prompt, and replaced it with a link to Powershell.

The average Joe does not use Powershell, people!

Thankfully this can easily be fixed.  Just right-click the Taskbar and select Properties.  Then go to the Navigation tab and un-click Replace Command-Prompt with Windows PowerShell in the menu when I right-click the lower-left corner or press Windows key+X.

Surface Pro keyboard and Event Viewer messages

If you have a Surface Pro, you might be getting some Event 219 warnings in the System Event Log, related to a hardware device with ID VID045E&PID_079.

To clear matters up, this is the Surface Touch or Type cover driver.  If you see this warning, it may match up with you being unable to type.    As of July 2013, I still need to occasionally disconnect and reconnect my type cover, and I can only assume that if I checked the event log for events logged at that time I would find this event.