Instant crash at launch

[klepsydra]

Help, no matter how many time I wipe and reinstall (now at v. 6.8.3), nor whether I launch as user or admin, a window never appears. Process Hacker/manager shows a process named “notepad++.exe” came into existence and ended right away,. Win 8.1 64bit. I had manually cleared %AppData%\Roaming\Notepad++ and remnants under C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++ (including old *.xml , plugins, etc.), Take Ownership of those dirs, but nothing seemed to matter before retrying.

Event Log had:
Faulting application name: notepad++.exe, version: 6.8.3.0, time stamp: 0x55e8c674
Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Exception code: 0xc000041d
Fault offset: 0x773b0309
Faulting process id: 0x1a60
Faulting application start time: 0x01d0f96c2ff3b77b
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Faulting module path: unknown
Report Id: 6e8c4b7b-655f-11e5-82a2-f4b7e28801ee
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

and:
Fault bucket 107573163618, type 1
Event Name: APPCRASH
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: notepad++.exe
P2: 6.8.3.0
P3: 55e8c674
P4: StackHash_66dd
P5: 0.0.0.0
P6: 00000000
P7: c000041d
P8: PCH_03_FROM_SciLexer+0x0003555E
P9:
P10:

Attached files:
C:\Users\master\AppData\Local\Temp\WERF229.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml

These files may be available here:
C:\Users\master\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppCrash_notepad++.exe_8bfc9b1f13ab48174e428c7846d57254aee15e5_0111fceb_1b32f4d9

Analysis symbol:
Rechecking for solution: 0
Report Id: 6e8c4b7b-655f-11e5-82a2-f4b7e28801ee
Report Status: 0
Hashed bucket: 6266d015343a04260812526963d07c3e

but no solutions had ever come from Microsoft, despite their auto-error upload/checking.
This has been going on for about 2-3 month now, not sure. My Windows OS is pretty new and clean…I am not about to muck with drivers, reinstalling it/snapshot rollback, etc.

[klepsydra]

At my wit’s end, I exhaustively moved aside files one by one in C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++
to see was preventing startup (without even an error box).
Finally, moving plugins/NppExternalLexers.dll into the disabled folder made the program reappear, with old session, styles and all!

[informatik01]

I confirm this issue.

Today I have installed PowerShell Lexer thru Plugin Manager and after restart Notepad++ could not launch.
Investigating the “plugin” folder (inside the Notepadd++ installation) I found (by observing Date Installed/Modified ) this NppExternalLexers.dll file. After moving it to the “disabled” folder Notepad++ can launch without any problem.

[Claudia Frank]

@Levan-Kekelidze

did the same right now and don’t have the problem.

Notepad++ v6.9
Build time : Feb 21 2016 - 21:27:55
Path : D:\ProgramData\notepad++_newest\notepad++.exe
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : ON
OS : Windows 7
Plugins : AnalysePlugin.dll ColorPicker.dll ComparePlugin.dll CustomizeToolbar.dll Demo.dll Explorer.dll LanguageHelp.dll LuaScript.dll mimeTools.dll NppConverter.dll NppExec.dll NppExport.dll NppExternalLexers.dll NppFTP.dll PluginManager.dll PreviewHTML.dll PythonScript.dll PythonShell.dll SpellChecker.dll XMLTools.dll

Cheers
Claudia

[Gakubuchi]

I know it is an old post, but in my case the offending plugin was NppFTP. Moving it to the “disabled” folder did the job.
If I try to install it again, the same behaviour occurs: crash on start-up.
As I don’t use it, I’ll leave it as disabled.

I hope it is useful for someone.

[chcg]

nppftp with which version of n++? Current 7.3.1? Could you add the debug info like above about the used vesions and the installed plugins apart from nppftp.