Recent content by stymied

Tied up yesterday. Tried again this morning. Couldn't get beyond date/time to the logon screen. In time-honoured fashion, powered off, powered back on and it's all working fine. I assume that Microsoft realised its error(s) and put out an automatic additional update or two to fix it(them) with...

Might be wise to pause rather than rushing into the upate, as you say. I'll see whether the uninstall is in one of those apps. that actually get text to the screen. Thanks for that suggestion. I'll try it in the morning and report back. Not sure if restore enabled, but if the info's in the...

Sorry about my previous reply. I just went to update history and it worked! "2019-11 Cumulative Update for indows 10 Version 1903 for x64-based Systems (KB4524570)" "Successsfully installed on 12/11/2019" Also: "Security Intelligence Update for Windows Defender Antivirus - KB2267602 (Version...

Even if I knew how to look at the updates history, I wouldn't find out because all the textt would appear as blank. Whichever updates were released by MS in the last 24 hours, I suppose, sincee updates are automatic.

It's not just Spybot, it's every application. Icons and menu bars are fine. All other text is blank. I ran Ccleaner only by knowing that this coloured block was "continue" and that coloured block was "cancel", etc.

All backgrounds. On the home screen there is a picture and the icons spread over that, but no text underneath each icon. You couldn't specify multicoloured text to match the background.

A windows 10 system automatically updated this morning. Home screen shows all icons as usual, but not textual descriptions. Outlook toolbars are fine, but mail dates, sender/receiver, subject, text, etc. are missing. Mails can be opened, but appear with all fields blank. Now all text in Spybot...