This case concerns the on-screen display option in ASUS GPU Tweak II; it does not justify disabling unrelated Windows display features.

  • Browsers and third-party applications froze immediately while core Windows apps still opened.
  1. Open ASUS GPU Tweak II.
  2. Locate and disable OSD mode.
  3. Restart affected applications or Windows.
  4. Repeat the keystroke/workload that previously caused freezing.

Reported outcome: The original poster marked the issue solved after discovering OSD mode had been enabled and disabling that mode.

Record the previous OSD setting. Re-enable it to undo the comparison if the same applications still freeze.