February 15, 2022—KB5010414 (OS Build 22000.527) Preview not playing nice with DeskScapes

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Neil's gonna give me the "we don't do windows beta's" speech but I thought I'd just put a note in that yesterday's update for the Windows Insider "beta" channel has a problem. Changing a DeskScape will result in explorer.exe going into a crash loop.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,

I have forwarded your report to the Stardock support team for their review and recommendations.

Please keep an eye on this thread for any updates.

We really do appreciate your feedback, thanks.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Fyi, I did try to uninstall/reinstall and saw the same behavior.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

I've had similar problems (explorer.exe crash loop) in Windows 10 and Windows 11 Beta, but found that the problem occurred after installing updated NVidia drivers without rebooting after the install. 

I haven't installed (KB5010414) but its pending. If I encounter the same thing reported here after doing so, I'll add to this thread.

 

Thank you :-)

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

I've looked into the problem substantially and found that the issues arise only when using a multiple monitor configuration, and that they affect any programs which use fullscreen or scaling (or both) and that it appears to be an issue with the update. Using fullscreen applications in windowed mode seems to stop the explorer crash loop. I hope that helps.