PowerToys Run crashes when using with Program plugin

[theGuiltyMan]

Microsoft PowerToys version

0.88.0

Installation method

PowerToys auto-update

Running as admin

Yes

Area(s) with issue?

PowerToys Run

Steps to reproduce

Since version 0.87.0 whenever I try to use PowerToys Run it crashes.
I saw a few issues caused by thumbnail generation, but the program still crashes when the option is off and thumbnail files are deleted.

PowerToysReport_2025-02-02-23-35-53.zip

PowerToys.PowerLauncher.exe.36024.dmp.zip

✔️ Expected Behavior

No response

❌ Actual Behavior

No response

Other Software

No response

[similar-issues-ai]

We've found some similar issues:

• powertoy run crash #33446 , similarity score: 85%
• Unable to use PowerToys Run #15172 , similarity score: 84%
• Power toy run crash. #23615 , similarity score: 83%
• powertoys run crashing #37108 , similarity score: 82%
• PowerToys Run keeps crashing #14108 , similarity score: 82%
• Powertoys Run Crash in windows.storage.dll #26800 , similarity score: 82%
• PowerToys Run does not work and crashes #30850 , similarity score: 82%
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• PowerToys Run Crash Every Time Launched #30346 , similarity score: 82%
• PowerToys Run Crashes when opened with the latest release: v0.82.0 #33635 , similarity score: 81%
• [PowerToys Run] - Crashes upon input #33169 , similarity score: 81%
• PowerToys run crashing regularly in latest update #23697 , similarity score: 81%
• PowerToys Run randomly crashes #23445 , similarity score: 81%

If any of the above are duplicates, please consider closing this issue out and adding additional context in the original issue.

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[jaimecbernardo]

Thank you for the dump. It seems PowerToys Run is failing on a specific extraction from a file. Is it possible to generate a full dump to verify which filePath we're actually trying to generate an icon for? That might help in reproducing the error on our end. 😄 /needinfo

[theGuiltyMan]

How can i generate a full dump

[jaimecbernardo]

One way of achieving this would be by creating an entry in the Registry Editor (regedit.msc), for Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\LocalDumps\PowerToys.PowerLauncher.exe , according to the instructions in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/wer/collecting-user-mode-dumps

It should look something like this in the end (but for PowerLauncher) and dump type should be 2 instead of 1:

After that, please replicate the bug, navigate to %LOCALAPPDATA%\CrashDumps in the File Explorer and upload the zipped PowerToys.PowerLauncher.exe.*.dmp file to a GitHub comment.

/needinfo