Save/Open dialog missing text and buttons

[Gulgin]

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!

 

[Megahertz07]

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

 

[mbressman]

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!

 

[mbressman]

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.

 

[Phill Adams]

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!