Windows 10: Text Disappearing All Over Windows Randomly

Discus and support Text Disappearing All Over Windows Randomly in Windows 10 Support to solve the problem; Hello all, Ive got a weird issue here. More often than not, when I log onto Windows on my laptop, my desktop icons are missing text. It is not... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Support' started by ArazelEternal, Mar 14, 2017.

  1. Text Disappearing All Over Windows Randomly


    Hello all,

    Ive got a weird issue here. More often than not, when I log onto Windows on my laptop, my desktop icons are missing text. It is not limited to just the icons though. Context menus are all missing text as well, along with everything when I open Windows explorer. Folders, apps, docs. etc are all missing their text. This happens to the extent where Im not able to use my computer, which is why I dont have any screenshots. I type in the search box for Cortana, no text. It comes up with suggestions for what I type, but no text again. No labels for anything so Im not able to see what it comes up with for results. Sometimes labels will be partial, parts of words, letters will show up but not the whole thing. If I either log off or restart, sometimes it will all come back and I able to use my computer

    Has anyone seen anything like this?

    Dell Precision M4800
    Windows 10 Pro x64, latest insider build
    Intel Core i7 4810MQ
    16GB DDR3-1600 RAM
    NVIDIA Quadro K2100M
    Intel HD Graphics 4600
    Samsung PM830 128GB SSD
    Seagate FireCuda 1TB SSHD
    1366*768 Screen Resolution

    EDIT:

    Ive searched all over Google. I cant find anything that really seems to match the issue I am having, and some are from a couple years ago. I really have no idea whats going on here.

    :)
     
    ArazelEternal, Mar 14, 2017
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  2. Cursor or input indicator

    cursor "text input indicator" NOT Pointer, randomly moves to anywhere on the screen or disappears altogether

    While typing and not looking at screen cursor will move and when I push enter, the cursor may have moved somewhere

    else in the text body and placed text in wrong place, then I have to redo text, or it may have disappeared from the text body and moved over to an Ad, like in facebook and when I press enter the Ad will pop up. I can not take it anymore, very frustrating.

    I use a wireless mouse, do not have a problem on my Win 7 laptop with the same mouse.

    This is a new Dell Inspiron i5559-4682 , Win 10-64, "lowly" Home addition. This happens randomly while input text, any program, app, or email, it has done it twice while typing this. I need help, ran diagnostics, come up ok every time, this is a Windows
    problem, please help. All updates applied.

    ***Post was moved by the moderator to the appropriate forum category.***
     
    umpapamalmal, Mar 14, 2017
    #2
  3. Predictive text bar on Lumia 620 keeps disappearing.

    Why does the predicitive text bar on my Lumia 620 keep randomly disappearing. All the correct options in the 'Keyboard' section of 'Settings' are checked, but the bar keeps disappearing and I don't know why. Its very annoying and makes typing on the touch
    screen very hard.
     
    I Wakefield, Mar 14, 2017
    #3
  4. dalchina New Member

    Text Disappearing All Over Windows Randomly

    Hi, do you see the same thing in Safe Mode?

    And do you have a suitable system restore point or previously created disk image (which we strongly and repeatedly recommend using routinely e.g. Macrium Reflect (free) ) you could use to restore your PC?
     
    dalchina, Mar 14, 2017
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  5. Yes, the same thing happened in safe mode as well. I just did a clean install of Windows. I couldnt get the text to come back when I turned my laptop on today so I said screw it and reinstalled Windows. Thanks for your response though.
     
    ArazelEternal, Mar 14, 2017
    #5
  6. Pi87 Win User
    Yes, I have. It started on this box after Creators Update - no other box has this issue (all running Win 10 pre-Creators).I read somewhere that it's GFX card related (NVIDIA), but it looks like a Windows glitch. I run Windows 10 Home x64 ver 1703 (build 250)
     
    Pi87, May 7, 2017
    #6
  7. dalchina New Member
    Unlikely to be graphics related if it's apparent in Safe Mode (#3)... or at least that would seem to eliminate the NVIDIA driver as a culprit.
     
    dalchina, May 7, 2017
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  8. Pi87 Win User

    Text Disappearing All Over Windows Randomly

    This is very true -- I forgot about the Safe Mode part, thanks *Smile .

    Also, I can certify it's not due to some DISM corruption issue. To cut a long story short, Creators has this bug that gives a 0x800f081f DISM error, a matter that has been talked to death elsewhere, so I won't go on here *Smile All I'll say is that at first I thought that was the culprit, though SFC gave no errors. Anyway, the issue turned out to be two leftover test registry entries which (when removed) allow DISM to finally finish restoring the image (and it turns out wasn't needed on my box). So - the disappearing text problem persists even after that DISM issue is fixed. I have latest BIOS version (MSI BIOS 2.10/AMI BIOS 2.1) and all drivers updated.

    One thing I've noticed is that the problem tends to happen the very first time the PC starts. System drive is SSD, not sure if that makes any difference - but I did notice something else a bit weird (to me at least): a 'chkdsk /f /scan' gave a lot of unused index entries cleaned from security descriptors. Repeating the 'chkdsk /f scan' reduced them from 400 plus something down to 11, both from index $SII and $SDH of 'file 0x9'. Not sure if that's related. But then I tried a 'chkdsk /scan /forceofflinefix' without any problem anywhere, including the security descriptor indexes. Not sure if this is related, but thought I'd mention it.
     
    Pi87, Apr 5, 2018
    #8
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