Save/Open dialog missing text and buttons

Gulgin

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Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Boot from the win 7 installation disk, go to Repair and launch a cmd window.
Type
chkdsk C: /f

Pay attention on the results.
If no bad blocks or bad clusters
type
sfc /scannow
 

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Recently save dialogs in several programs including multiple browsers and native windows software like Word have stopped displaying file names and the buttons have disappeared.

See example on Opera: Frustrating lack of file names and buttons - Album on Imgur
And slightly different behavior in Word: Imgur: The most awesome images on the Internet

I have looked around for an obvious answer but nothing quite seems to fit the bill. This is really infuriating... please help!

I have a client with the same issue on her Win7 machine, but I can't find anything else online about this issue - it apparently started for her sometime between Friday and today. SFC scan didn't find any issues, and haven't had the chance to run chkdsk yet, although might just try a system restore. Did you happen to figure out what was causing it or a solution to it? Thanks!
 

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PC/Desktop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
HP
OS
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
CPU
Intel Core i7 X980 3.33 GHz
Memory
12 GB
Graphics Card(s)
ATI Radeon HD 5570 2GB
Hard Drives
2 X 1TB (RAID 1 Config)
Antivirus
Norton Internet Security 2013
Browser
IE, Chrome, Safari, Firefox
I did a system restore and that solved it for my client, and then it re-occurred again shortly thereafter. Tracked it down to Avast Business Anti-Virus and uninstalling that seems to have resolved it. Filed a support ticket with Avast.
 

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PC/Desktop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
HP
OS
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
CPU
Intel Core i7 X980 3.33 GHz
Memory
12 GB
Graphics Card(s)
ATI Radeon HD 5570 2GB
Hard Drives
2 X 1TB (RAID 1 Config)
Antivirus
Norton Internet Security 2013
Browser
IE, Chrome, Safari, Firefox
I have suffered the same irritating problem this past week. Fortunately for me a friend directed me to a piece of Anti-Malware software called Malwarebytes. I have just run the software, rebooted and the problem has vanished! Time will tell whether the little blighter will reinfect the PC again but for now I'm rather relieved!

Worth a try folks!
 

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Custom Build
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Outside US or Canada
CPU
Intel Core i7 930 @ 2.80GHz
Motherboard
Intel Corporation DX58SO (J1PR)
Memory
16gb
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4095MB NVIDIA Quadro M4000 (NVIDIA)
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931GB SAMSUNG HD105SI (SATA)
232GB Samsung SSD 840 Series (SSD)
931GB SAMSUNG HD105SI (SATA)
1863GB Western Digital WDC WD20EARX-00PASB0 (SATA)
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Avast Internet Security
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Chrome
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