Powershell Crashes on Startup

[Harris Mirza]

Hi,


I logged onto my computer today and for some reason powershell won't open anymore, when I open it, the window pops up for a second before closing again.


Strangely, Powershell ISE still works.


I looked in event viewer and there seems to be an Application Error, referencing bcryptprimitives.dll, the XML is below.


- <Event xmlns="

http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event

">


- <System>


<Provider Name="Application Error" />


<EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID>


<Level>2</Level>


<Task>100</Task>


<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>


<TimeCreated SystemTime="2019-09-27T10:27:13.470972600Z" />


<EventRecordID>19731</EventRecordID>


<Channel>Application</Channel>


<Computer>COMPUTER</Computer>


<Security />


</System>


- <EventData>


<Data>powershell.exe</Data>


<Data>10.0.17763.1</Data>


<Data>c3eca48a</Data>


<Data>bcryptPrimitives.dll</Data>


<Data>10.0.17763.678</Data>


<Data>94fbdec9</Data>


<Data>c0000005</Data>


<Data>0000000000007f5e</Data>


<Data>3dc4</Data>


<Data>01d5751e2083ff64</Data>


<Data>C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe</Data>


<Data>C:\WINDOWS\System32\bcryptPrimitives.dll</Data>


<Data>fba23e4c-e5c9-42f1-91af-9aeca5a9a4a0</Data>


<Data />


<Data />


</EventData>


</Event>

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