Windows 10: Windows 10: Text and fonts disappear from drop down menus, taskbar, explorer, and any...

I've had this issue for several months now and have been managing by restarting my laptop every time. Frequently, whenever I open programs like Microsoft Word or Excel, or try to edit text in Adobe Photoshop, virtually all text from Windows disappears and it's impossible for me to use almost any text editing tools.


It seems like the issue is that whatever is in charge of handling text display and loading fonts in programs is crashing. My reasoning is that I can open and load Photoshop perfectly fine, but when I try to load a file with text in it, try to edit that text, or try to add text via the text tool, the issue comes up again (Edit: I was able to replicate this on Paint as well, so it does seem to occur whenever I try to load fonts). Meanwhile, programs like Word or Excel, which rely on loading and displaying fonts from the OS cause the issue immediately upon opening. In programs like Paint or Notepad, I can still type things, but it seems to use some default font and it is impossible to load any other font. Text in Chrome and in the Start Menu on the other hand work perfectly fine, which I assume is because they handle text display on their own.


I've already formatted my drive and did a clean reinstall of Windows 10 via USB in hopes that it would maybe fix the problem but it did not. Since reinstalling Windows didn't fix it, I thought it might be an issue with my graphics driver, but that's been updated and nothing changed. I would like to get this fixed ASAP as it really ruins my workflow when almost all text from the system is gone and I have to restart my computer to bring it back.


My computer details are:

CPU: Intel Core -5-4200U

GPU: Intel HD Graphics 4400

8GB RAM


Here are several photos that show the issue and hopefully might give an idea as to what is going wrong with Windows:







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Internet Explorer 11 Menu font size

Hi Larry,

Follow these steps to change the font size in IE11:

• Click Start menu or press Windows key on your keyboard.
• Type and click Control Panel.
• Click Appearance and Personalization and under Display, click
  Make text other items larger or smaller.
• Under Change only the text size, choose the Title bars
  in the drop-down menu and the desired font size on the drop-down menu beside it.

Let us know if the suggested steps helped.

 

Decreasing font size in Internet Explorer address box (Windows 10)

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

• Is this issue specific to Internet Explorer?

I would suggest you to try the steps as below and check.

Step 1:

Press Windows key + X and click Control Panel

Click Fonts and then click Font Settings, click
Restore default font settings and click OK

Step 2:

Press Windows key + X and click Control Panel

Click Fonts and then click Change font size

Under Change only text size, select an option from drop-down menu and select the text size, click
Apply

Hope this information is helpful. Please feel free to reply in case you face any other issues with Windows in future.

 

arrows disappeared in windows explorer context menu

You could start by checking this page:
List of typefaces included with Microsoft Windows - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There's more found by search:
windows 10 system fonts at DuckDuckGo
I could have suggested comparing your Fonts [in Control Panel] with another computer but a large number of Windows-based programs install additional Fonts so that may be too time-consuming.