Windows 10: No text, not even in command prompt

Hi guys

My laptop was running pretty hot the other day, so I turned it off when it got super slow. This was after the latest update, and everything was working normally, except of course running hot.


I booted it up again today, and... no text on anything to do with the system. I turned it off with the shut down button, not with the shut-down from the start menu. When I booted it up it took around 5-7 minutes to boot.


Then when I logged in... no text under icons, no text in windows explorer or any type of system dialogue. I read about "fix this with this clean up tool in windows command prompt" so I opened that up, no cursor or anything appearing in the command prompt.


I noticed that when it got super hot, it seemed to crash because of Kaspersky. I had the "secure browser" open, and google chrome was really pulling a lot of power. I've used the secure browser several times before without issue. But when I tried to open chrome this time, it just can't cope at all!


Is it something with chrome? or Kaspersky?


I looked at windows update, it says the June 9th update is "pending download"... but I can't see anything to click to get it to download and there are no prompts anywhere.


No idea what's going on. 18 month old Lenovo not really used for anything heavy.

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