Windows 10 Missing Labels and Missing Text Characters on Menus and Folders

Question

Ok so all of a sudden since yesterday, I have been noticing that the labels that appear when you rest your cursor on an icon or a folder have disappeared. Some of the folders are missing names entirely and this is very inconvenient when it comes to copy pasting, moving items from one place to another. The time at the bottom of the desktop would randomly lose number characters. For ex: 5:51 PM might look like 5:5, 5:51 or no time at all. Even when I right click on the desktop or the start button, I would get a bunch of options missing text characters. It is very annoying. I had a clean install performed on this computer less than 2 weeks ago. Everything worked fine since then until yesterday. The computer is brand new as well, I bought it about 5 weeks ago and has only a couple of applications downloaded as well.

Answer 1

Kavindi

The first thing I would try doing is lowering your screen resolution.

Open Start > Settings > System > Display

Make sure recommended settings are selected for Scale and Layout and Screen resolution.

Choose 125 to 150% to see if it helps.

If that does not work...

Press Windows key + X

Click Task Manager

Select the Processes tab

Scroll down to Windows Explorer then select it

Click Restart

If that does not work:

uninstall your display driver:

Press Windows key + X

Click Device Manager

Expand Display adapters

Right click the current display adapter

Click Uninstall

Exit Device Manager

Restart

1. Open Notepad.
2. Copy the following text into Notepad:

@echo off

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe

taskkill /f /im shellexperiencehost.exe

timeout /t 3 /NOBREAK > nul

del %localappdata%\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ShellExperienceHost_cw5n1h2txyewy\TempState\* /q

timeout /t 2 /NOBREAK > nul

start explorer

@echo on

3. Click File and Save.
4. Choose a location to save the file. Enter a File name of ClearTileCache.bat and select Save as type of All files (*.*). Click Save.
5. Open File Explorer and navigate to the location that you chose to save the file to. Double-click ClearTileCache.bat to run the file.