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I also first would have said to run the SFC command and remember if Windows 8.1 or 10 to run it in ADMIN mode as well. But that could detect an error in that area. Next, in OUTLOOK go up to the menu bar and then TOOLS and in that menu select the “Trust Center”. Then, select the item “Attachment Handling” on the left. With that done, then on the right, you should see the button “Attachment And Document Previewers”
Open that up and verify that it in fact, has Win-word, or Word, Excel etc. listed. If not, that very well could be your issue. Why, is a totally different issue and WAY ABOVE my pay-grade LOL

At our American Legion Post, I had 2 Windows 8.1 Pro 64 bit systems and just finished the Windows 10 update. The Adjutant Computer has not seen anything per say that is goofy, however, on the Finance computer, after the update, we were looking at the Accounting System today and suddenly realized that the lefthand side of the application was chopped off similar to what you described in the article. Both systems are Desktop with 17 inch flat screens, and we pushed the auto-reset on the monitor itself. that corrected not only that application but we no longer saw any issue from any application after that. Not sure why the darn system decided that it needed a reset of the monitor but it evidently did. Just thought I would toss that into the wind and see if flies or goes over the cliff.

I looked at the data and comments in reference to MSE and other AV programs. One thing that isn’t really mentioned but can really be an aggravation at times is that some of the AV programs, including AVG, will delay opening document files such as .doc, .docx, .xls etc while the program “scans” the file before opening it. I am all for making sure that things aren’t on my system, but when its a Word document that I am writing on my local drive that isn’t and most likely never was downloaded, I hate waiting for some varied amount of time, while the AV program scans the document for viruses.
If you have a fairly long document as I have at times when writing operation manuals that can be very, very log, it can take 30 seconds or even longer (I actually had one doc file that was the master manual and was over 300 pages long and it would take at times, depending on other things running on that system, nearly 1 minute to open the file because it needed to scan that local drive file).
Again, I am all for making sure that a downloaded file is virus free, but if the document is a local drive created document, spreadsheet etc, it can be a real “finger-drumming” issue when you have a fast computer that is waiting for document scanning.

I’m Just Saying……………………. LOL
William Sheets

I would only say that all of the information from everyone is very good. I would really say run a complete system backup to an external hard drive, so that in case something really goes terribly wrong, you won’t lose anything more than the time to run a restore from that backup. Beats the heck out of a complete reinstall of every application and then hopefully get your data back from where-ever.
Just my thoughts