Phantom folders, green screen restarts, Surface keyboard dead

The July preview update for Windows 11 24H2 conjured phantom folders on the desktop — mysterious empty directories that appeared from nowhere. Installations stalled at 58%. Green screen restarts plagued users. Surface Pro 11 keyboards stopped working entirely, turning a laptop into a very expensive tablet. File Explorer’s Home view collapsed to showing a single lonely folder. It was the kind of update where every user encountered a different, equally baffling bug.