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DocCovington
Copper Contributor
Dec 05, 2025

Windows Themes no longer working...

Hello folks,

I hope someone here can help me out:

  • My Windows Themes suddenly stopped working. I can select all other categories under "Personalize", but clicking on "Themes" results in the application crashing (i.e., the window closing) and a SystemSettings.exe dump file being created.

Upon booting into Safe Mode, I got a direct error message that I screenshot:

How can I easily fix this without resorting to unwanted measures such as a system restore or having to create a brandnew user profile?

Thanks in advance. <3

crash
help
system settings
Themes
windows 10

1 Reply

  • KellanWarner's avatar
    KellanWarner
    Iron Contributor
    Dec 09, 2025

    Typically this means someone did bad stuff in the code. Its a bit hard to explain what exactly malicious user means, but since you are the user, you don't really need to worry about it.

    Sounds like some windows internal program has a bug, but a malware will likely never target the stack.

    In the end this simply means there is some bug in some application, but the chances that it has to do anything with malware is really low. And since the user this dialog refers to is you, you don't need to worry about it.

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