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Text randomly disappears in most programs
After installing creators update, the text in most programs would disappear randomly, making them impossible to use.
Symptoms before this happens:
- Computer usually hangs (sometimes even mouse cursor freezes) for at least a few minutes
- If I happen to have task manager resource monitor up at the time of the freeze, read/write would be 0kbps, yet disk usage is 100%
- Usually I'd have some kind of CPU/GPU intensive program open like a game, but it's always minimized. In other words my computer never hangs while actually playing the game
Programs with missing text or glitched text:
- Desktop. Some letters get replaced with weird symbols, and hovering over icons with mouse would turn text a blurry black colour (see screenshot below)
- MS Paint
- Explorer (hovering over icons would cause text to disappear)
- CMD (completely blank black screen)
- Any windows prompts or confirmation popups
- Games
- MS Office apps like Word
Programs that don't get affected:
- Internet browser (even foreign characters display fine)
- Windows context menus, like when you right click
- Task bar and start menu
I'm assuming something crashed, like fonts? But it's very weird why some programs or features don't get affected.
I Googled this and only found two "solutions", run SFC scannow, or uninstall "Comodo firewall". I've already ran SFC with no errors, and I don't have Comodo installed. Graphics drivers are all up to date (Intel HD + Nvidia Optimus). Also my issue is different as some programs aren't affected.
Simply restarting computer will fix this, but I'd like to find out what's causing it, as it's happening almost every day.