Windows 10 - speakers, microphone, and camera stopped working

Issue

Speakers, microphone, and the camera suddenly stopped working in all apps on Acer Swift laptop running Windows 10 Home. Devices also not seen by Windows built-in apps and settings, but present in Device Manager.
Reinstalling devices in device manager doesn’t help. Windows Privacy settings is not an issue. Rebooting laptop doesn’t help either.

Windows Audio troubleshooter reports that audio service is not running.

The Spotify program file has become damaged. Maybe it has been infected by a virus

Issue

Trying to run Spotify on Windows 10 desktop produces following error:

The Spotify program file has become damaged. Maybe it has been infected by a virus.
Please download Spotify again from https://www.spotify.com

Trying to uninstall Spotify produces the same error. 

Resolution

The issue seems to have been caused by a pending Spotify update combined by Windows 10 pending restart after installing some Windows updates. After computer reboot, Spotify quickly updated itself and launched without any issues.

January 2019
Windows 10 (1809)
Spotify 1.0.96.181

Microsoft Visio 2016 takes long time to open

Issue

Microsoft Visio 2016 takes 10-20 seconds to open any diagram. The Visio itself opens quickly, but loading any diagram takes much longer than it should.

Google Picasa 3 maps module no longer works (object error)

Issue

Places sidebar stopped working in Google Picasa 3. Following error is displayed instead of a map:

[object Error]
You are using a browser that is not supported by the Google Maps JavaScript API. Consider changing your browser.