Missing characters (letters) in Windows 10 OS, IE 11, etc.

After an update a couple of days ago, Windows 10 Operating System Start Menu, Internet Explorer, etc have various letters or characters missing. I downloaded Chrome and it doesn't give any trouble. The only thing that is different since new install is I
have .NET Framework 3.5 enabled in Windows Features for other programming purposes.
Example:
TECHNOLOGY
Fac bo w nts t b your offic fri nd, t
Ars Technica
Will R bots r all t ov r ur jobs? (vid )
CNN
w oci I N tw rk Is a L t Li Link dIn, O ly Actu lly Us ful
Wired
sung to slash numb r f s rt hon mod ls
AFP
Original:
TECHNOLOGY
Facebook wants to be your office friend, too
Ars Technica
Will Robots really take over our jobs? (video)
CNN
New Social Network Is a Lot Like LinkedIn, Only Actually Useful
Wired
Samsung to slash number of smartphone models
AFP

Go to your Windows Updates > left side, click Check for updates > you should have at least 2 updates waiting to be installed. Do the install.
One of the updates is KB3008956 which will fix the issue.

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I have some trouble rendering fonts in Mathematica 10.0.0 (AUR).
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http://oi57.tinypic.com/2n80inl.jpg
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* clearing /~/.mathematica/
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* installing the ubuntu fonts
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FontPath "/opt/Mathematica/SystemFiles/Fonts/TrueType"
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[ 4.836] (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/".
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mkfontdir /opt/Mathematica/SystemFiles/Fonts/Type1
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Last edited by JKAbrams (2014-07-12 19:30:23)

Found a solution for KDE in this thread.
Change the Anti-aliasing-setting:
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Last edited by JKAbrams (2014-07-12 19:31:24)

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