Windows 10 randomly shuts down programs immediately after opening

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derridada

Hi,



I am running Windows 10 Pro (1909) 10.0.18363.900 (64-bit).



When opening a program, some seem to open correctly at first, but then hang and immediately shut down; there are no error messages. Some apps work fine though. Crashing apps so far are: Notepad, Acrobat Pro, System maintenance troubleshooter (in control Panel), Edge, Directory Opus, Todoist, Wordpad and even the Windows Media Creation tool.

Others work fine, like Word, Outlook, Chrome, File explorer, Spotify, etc.

I can see the dump files in \AppData\Local\CrashDumps

I’m running Norton 360 as anti-virus, but a full scan did not detect any issues.



Please note that I have tried the following:

System file check (SFC) Scan and Repair System Files & DISM as per System file check (SFC) Scan and Repair System Files & DISM to fix things SFC cannot

My first SFC gave me the following:

“Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files and successfully repaired them.

For online repairs, details are included in the CBS log file located at windir\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. For example C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. For offline repairs, details are included in the log file provided by the /OFFLOGFILE flag.”

I then ran DISM, Scanhealth & Restorehealth: “No component store corruption detected. The operation completed successfully. / The restore operation completed successfully. The operation completed successfully.”

Then SFC again “Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations.”



All my drivers are up to date, my chipset driver (AMD 2.04.28.626) and BIOS (Assus Version 2103) are the latest version, and all programs have been updated.


I have not made any changes to my system settings or added/deleted software that could explain this erratic behaviour.

I really do not want to do a clean install of Windows.


Any suggestions are more than welcome.

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