gdiplus crashing (Explorer, Photoshop, Start++, etc)

[Guest]

No idea why this started happening (Not really anything has been installed or
changed in the last couple of days) but quite a few things are crashing, for
example, explorer.exe crashes when opening images (Using the 'Preview' thing)
or opening the Games window, Defender simply won't start, start++ won't
start, Nvidia control panel crashes, etc.

Here is an example of Defender crashing:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: MSASCui.exe
Application Version: 1.1.1505.0
Application Timestamp: 45ad82d9
Fault Module Name: gdiplus.dll
Fault Module Version: 5.2.6000.16386
Fault Module Timestamp: 4549bcaf
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00032ad0
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.3
Locale ID: 3081
Additional Information 1: 8d13
Additional Information 2: cdca9b1d21d12b77d84f02df48e34311
Additional Information 3: 8d13
Additional Information 4: cdca9b1d21d12b77d84f02df48e34311

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Each one of these error boxes from the various crashes mentions gdiplus.dll
so I tried replacing the file with a 'fresh' copy, using regsvr to
re-register it and just some other things but I haven't gotten anywhere.

I really need to fix this. :/

I don't know what details would be useful, just a rather standard Vista
[32Bit/Home Premium] setup.

 

[zachd [MSFT]]

I believe this is the one we discussed in a different forum - you have a
corrupt 3rd party font on your system. Remove that and you should be fine
again.

(I'm 99% certain this is the same discussion we had there where you had
installed seven random fonts, but for tracking purposes I'm just following
up here as well.)

 

[Guest]

I believe this is the one we discussed in a different forum - you have a
corrupt 3rd party font on your system. Remove that and you should be fine
again.

We have a similar problem - can you direct us to this "different forum"?
How do we identify and locate any such corrupt 3rd-party fonts?

rest deleted...

 

[zachd [MSFT]]

In this particular case, the user had loaded a bunch of codecs from some
download site. You could probably open up a cmd.exe prompt, then
cd %windir%\fonts
dir /o:d
and probably get the handful of interesting fonts here that have changed of
late (or that are old pre-Vista fonts that were pushed onto the system).

Alternatively you could try to debug this using the generated DMP file when
this crashes, but that's probably asking a huge amount for the average
person. So: if you know what fonts you've added, that might be the most
helpful. Otherwise it's likely going to be a minor headache.

I'm not really a font expert so don't really know about the best ways to
diagnose corrupt fonts, sorry. But if this is your crash - hopefully this
does help point you in the right direction. =\