I’ve spent more than four hours over the last two days trying to figure out why my menus in Photoshop Elements 12 *had no freaking words on them*!

I googled every word combination I could think of to describe my problems (“menu missing text”, “menu missing characters”, “buttons missing letters”?).

I even went so far as to uninstall and reinstall which I never do. And I was about to burst into tears and just install Picasa until I found this article http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/kb/menus-missing-elements-8-9.html which didn’t mention version 12 but it fixed the issue.

Adobe–your software is buggy junk and I despise you.