Explorer.exe in infinite crash loop caused by Taskbar.View.dll

nuaptan · Dec 7, 2022

My Windows 11 (build 25252.1000, pro for workstations insider preview) has a critical problem now that explorer.exe repeatedly crashes and restart almost every second. The problem occurs after installing a update stack package.
Nuaptan

Event viewer crash log:

Faulting application name: explorer.exe, version: 10.0.25252.1000, time stamp: 0x789ae93c Faulting module name: Taskbar.View.dll, version: 2022.32200.0.0, time stamp: 0x6376d1b5 Exception code: 0xc0000409 Fault offset: 0x0000000000316b93 Faulting process id: 0x0x308 Faulting application start time: 0x0x1D90A9F587B0F24 Faulting application path: C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.40887771_cw5n1h2txyewy\Taskbar.View.dll Report Id: e2b38f2e-c86c-44c4-9f07-f866dc7c2d51 Faulting package full name: Faulting package-relative application ID:

Things I've tried:

restart in safe mode. problem still.
SFC and DISM commands. no help.
replace the file with Taskbar.View.dll extracted from windows setup iso. still crashes but now it says the reason is about Windows.UI.Xaml.dll (I changed it back then)
create a new user account. still crash. so the problem has nothing to do with my user profile.

I could not do a repair install because I am using the newest insider build so the ISO downloaded from ms site has a lower version than my system.
Any solution or idea? (I don't want to do a clean install. I have so many data and programs.)

OAT · Dec 8, 2022

1- Can you try to uninstall the stack package update?
2- You do not happen to have explorer patcher running?
3- Did you enable some undocumented features via vivetool?
Note: If you have used vivetool, do this from the command line: vivetool /fullreset

ps: I am running the same build as you.