After over a year, I finally found the cause. Windowblinds. Went nuclear and reinstalled Windows, and noticed it wasn't breaking anymore and was so happy! Yet, nope, as I reinstalled everything, it started breaking again. Took off all extensions, nothing. Turned off Start11 and Windowblinds 11, nothing. And while I didn't uninstall Start11, I remembered that Windowblinds does cause a lot of issues for a lot of applications. So, I decided to try uninstalling it completely, and wouldn't ya freakin' know it?!
Issue solved, but how do we go about fixing it?