windows explorer crash when unloading nvda

[beqabeqa473]

This is happening even on the clean system installation, without any additional software

Steps to reproduce:

It is hard to reproduce, but i am sure most of us are suffering from this. When debugging nvda or addons, and we restart nvda, at some point windowsexplorer will crash, task switcher hangs for about 5-10 seconds, explorer restarts and nvda says "Desktop 1"

Actual behavior:

Explorer is crashing on NVDA unload

Expected behavior:

No explorer crash should appear

NVDA logs, crash dumps and other attachments:

Unfortunately it is hard to reproduce this reliably, because of this, no logs.

System configuration

NVDA installed/portable/running from source:

Installed, from source

NVDA version:

alpha-31113,6a43521f

Windows version:

Windows 11 23H2 (AMD64) build 22631.3155 Also was reproduceable on windows 10

Name and version of other software in use when reproducing the issue:

Windows explorer

Other information about your system:

Other questions

Does the issue still occur after restarting your computer?

Yes

Have you tried any other versions of NVDA? If so, please report their behaviors.

same for years

If NVDA add-ons are disabled, is your problem still occurring?

Yes

Does the issue still occur after you run the COM Registration Fixing Tool in NVDA's tools menu?

Yes

[zstanecic]

I can reproduce this issue with all stable versions even from 2023.x version series. In my case, the issue happens after every restart when the multiple addons were installed in succession, respectively. Let me illustrate this with an example: For example download any two addons from the store. Intall these addons. Your NVDA will restart, and you will see these hangs.

[beqabeqa473]

It is becomming really annoying that this is happening for years and wonder if would able to diagnose it, but unfortunately without success.

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I can reproduce this issue with all stable versions even from 2023.x version series. In my case, the issue happens after every restart when the multiple addons were installed in succession, respectively. Let me illustrate this with an example: For example download any two addons from the store. Intall these addons. Your NVDA will restart, and you will see these hangs.

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[Adriani90]

Which view / pane are you using in Windows explorer? Do you have navigation pane and / or preview pane enabled or disabled? Do you have the details window enabled or disabled?

[beqabeqa473]

I tried disabling/enabling every single pane and/or combination. It doesn't matter what is turned on/off, nvda is causing explorer to crash when nvda is exiting.

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Which view / pane are you using in Windows explorer? Do you have navigation pane and / or preview pane enabled or disabled? Do you have the details window enabled or disabled?

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[haruncetinkaya306]

This problem is not caused by plugins. I always use NVDA without plugins and I have this problem.

[josephsl]

Hi,

I think this also happens without any File Explorer part of explorer.exe open - when NVDA closes, explorer.exe (process itself) may restart. The next step would be figuring out which past NVDA release did not exhibit this issue and narrow down the search (Git bisect, for example).

Thanks.

[Adriani90]

@beqabeqa473 could you please retest with the last alpha of NVDA? I think #16205 and #16222 might have affected this positively.

[beqabeqa473]

Hello. #16205 won't be able to fix this as this issue is not related to installer at all.

[Adriani90]

@beqabeqa473 I'd be glad to get feedback on the whole comment, there is also #16222. So did you test the last alpha of NVDA? Can you still reproduce this issue?

[beqabeqa473]

Just observed an explorer crash with latest alpha.

On 3/5/24, Adriani90 @.***> wrote:

@beqabeqa473 I'd be glad to get feedback on the whole comment, there is also

16222. So did you test the last alpha of NVDA? Can you still reproduce this

issue?

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[seanbudd]

The next steps to investigating this issue would be creating a crash dump from explorer using these steps. Once a crash dump is created we can debug the cause.

[seanbudd]

Crash dump file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/129QyakIj-Ia4o_p37kxltUCnXWrGrdjc/view?usp=drive_link