LEMON BLOG

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.

Microsoft is quietly working on one of its most ambitious software engineering shifts yet: reducing, and eventually eliminating, its reliance on C and C++ across its massive codebase by 2030. That includes parts of Windows – even Windows 11 – which still heavily depend on these older, performance-oriented languages. And the surprising part? Artificial Intelligence is going to play a big role in making this happen.

 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.

If you use Windows 11 regularly, you've probably interacted with WebView without ever realizing it. That login window that pops up when you sign into Microsoft Teams, Outlook, or other Microsoft apps isn't a full browser. It's a web control quietly embedded inside the app itself, designed to display web content without launching Edge or another browser.