LEMON BLOG

For years, Windows users have quietly benefited from performance optimizations baked deep into the operating system—features most people never see, but definitely feel. Now, Linux is finally getting one of those behind-the-scenes upgrades, and it could make a noticeable difference in how efficiently CPUs are used.

If you used Windows regularly in 2025, you probably felt like things were constantly shifting under your feet. Between the official end of Windows 10, new feature updates for Windows 11, and Microsoft's ongoing effort to modernize the platform, a number of long-standing features were either deprecated or fully removed.

If you're using a Surface Pro, especially models like the Surface Pro 7, 8 or 9, you might have run into a really annoying issue after upgrading your SSD to something faster like a Gen4 NVMe. Everything works smoothly at first, performance feels great, and then out of nowhere the system freezes for a few seconds after waking from sleep. The desktop stops responding, apps hang for a moment, and then the whole device suddenly comes back to life like nothing ever happened. It's frustrating and makes a premium device feel unreliable.

If you've ever carefully set your Documents folder to show details view, added your favorite columns, sorted things just nicely… only to return tomorrow and see everything completely reset, you're not alone. It is one of those long-standing Windows quirks that somehow still exists, especially in Windows 10 and Windows 11.

 If you have ever opened Task Manager only to see your disk usage slam to 100 percent, your heart probably stopped for a second. Then you scroll down and see one familiar name hogging resources: Windows Search Indexer. Suddenly, you start wondering whether your PC is dying, your SSD is failing, or if Microsoft just wants to see you suffer.