Thx for the tip. Same problem here and only running in Win 8 compatibility mode worked! It started with build 18298 for me as well. Running Configurator.exe (dependency on the Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 runtime) crashes. Faulting application name: Configurator.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x596fb91f Faulting module name: MSVCR120.dll, version: 12.0.21005.1, time stamp: 0x524f83ff Exception code: 0xc0000409 Fault offset: 0x0000000000074a30 Faulting process id: 0x1598 Faulting application start...