2025 GA explorer crashes

[Guest /u/Wild_Appearance_315]

Anyone else starting to poke around with the GA version of 2025 yet? I've tried making a template in our ESXi environment and it seems to have some pretty flakey behavior after logging in - Just get a black screen and explorer crashes, exception code xxx409.

Attempting to run explorer.exe from task manager fails in the same way.

 

I though it might have been something I was doing to the image, like installing libreoffice, so I cooked up another fresh VM / template with only vmware tools and the already available windows updates for 2025; same result, but it made it to creating a domain before it started doing it (after another reboot) - absolutely cooked. Next attempt will be without any updates to see if I get a better result.

 

Funnily enough, I've had no issues at all with the insider previews etc; I guess they saved the best for GA?

 

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