I think it has something with 'redrawing tray icons' - because every time I have stopped some program, which has an icon in tray, the explorer.exe crashed.

and for this reason is best to leave as little as possible of running programs, which can affect EP running on OLD SYMBOLS and crash. If you are using StartAllBack, you might be able to prevent this issue by updating to the latest version (v3.5.6 or later).Solved by exiting as much as possible running programs - and let EP (22621.1992.56.1) to download symbols for My build - Windows 11 22H2 (22621.2070) - only want to mention - I have running NetMeter - and I noticed, that the problem of EP is, when it starts to download symbols, and explorer.exe crashes - also download of symbols is interrupted - and after restart explorer, it begins again from start to download correct symbols (when available) - also the solution is to let the EP running on OLD SYMBOLS as long as possible to run without restart (crash) - so it can download full symbols set. If your Windows device is already experiencing this issue, you might need to contact customer support for the developer of the app you are using. Workaround: We recommend uninstalling any third-party UI customization app before installing KB5022913 to prevent this issue. These types of apps often use unsupported methods to achieve their customization and as a result can have unintended results on your Windows device. The known affected third-party UI customization apps are ExplorerPatcher and StartAllBack.

These third-party apps might cause errors with explorer.exe that might repeat multiple times in a loop. On the Windows health dashboard, the company describes the issue, stating:Īfter installing KB5022913 or later updates, Windows devices with some third-party UI customization apps might not start up. For now, Microsoft recommends uninstalling these apps until the tech giant figures out a solution for the issue. However, for those using third-party UI customization apps like StartAllBack and ExplorerPatcher, Microsoft has confirmed that new Build 22621.1344 (KB5022913) is causing these apps to not start up and launch properly. Later on, the company begun rolling out it out to users and as expected from a massive feature update, the changelog is one of the longest you would see.

Earlier today, Microsoft announced the February 2023 feature update for Windows 11 22H2 Moment 2.

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