VSCode Insiders Crashes Immediately with Exception 0x80000003 – No Logs Produced

[som1ein]

VSCode Insiders Crashes Immediately with Exception 0x80000003 – No Logs Produced

After today's update to the latest Insiders build the VSCode crashes on launch.

System Info

• OS: Windows 11 Pro x64 (10.0.22631)
• VSCode Insiders Version (crashes): 1.107.36256.0
• VSCode Previous Version (worked): 1.106.0-insider (user setup)
  • Commit: 00e7d11
  • Date: 2025-10-27T20:22:50.391Z
  • Electron: 37.7.0
  • ElectronBuildId: 12597478
  • Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
  • Node.js: 22.20.0
  • V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0

Event Viewer Details

• Faulting application name: Code - Insiders.exe, version: 1.107.36256.0
• Exception code: 0x80000003
• Fault offset: 0x000000000128881f

<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
  <Provider Name="Application Error" Guid="{a0e9b465-b939-57d7-b27d-95d8e925ff57}" /> 
  <EventID>1000</EventID> 
  <Version>0</Version> 
  <Level>2</Level> 
  <Task>100</Task> 
  <Opcode>0</Opcode> 
  <Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords> 
  <TimeCreated SystemTime="2025-11-19T12:25:03.0121981Z" /> 
  <EventRecordID>46757</EventRecordID> 
  <Correlation /> 
  <Execution ProcessID="24868" ThreadID="24052" /> 
  <Channel>Application</Channel> 
  <Computer>PC</Computer> 
  </System>
<EventData>
  <Data Name="AppName">Code - Insiders.exe</Data> 
  <Data Name="AppVersion">1.107.36256.0</Data> 
  <Data Name="AppTimeStamp">69125b9a</Data> 
  <Data Name="ModuleName">Code - Insiders.exe</Data> 
  <Data Name="ModuleVersion">1.107.36256.0</Data> 
  <Data Name="ModuleTimeStamp">69125b9a</Data> 
  <Data Name="ExceptionCode">80000003</Data> 
  <Data Name="FaultingOffset">000000000128881f</Data> 
  <Data Name="ProcessId">0x3328</Data> 
  <Data Name="ProcessCreationTime">0x1dc594f879b6e28</Data> 
  <Data Name="AppPath">%APPDATA%\Local\Programs\MicrosoftVSCodeInsiders\Code - Insiders.exe</Data> 
  <Data Name="ModulePath">%APPDATA%\Local\Programs\MicrosoftVSCodeInsiders\Code - Insiders.exe</Data> 
  <Data Name="IntegratorReportId">59c687b0-cd2d-46f8-9fd1-8269e735ae1d</Data> 
  <Data Name="PackageFullName" /> 
  <Data Name="PackageRelativeAppId" /> 
</EventData>
</Event>

Steps Tried

• Full uninstall and deletion of user/data folders
• Reboot and clean install of latest Insiders
• Stable build works (v1.100.2), only Insiders crashes
• Tried launching with --log trace --disable-extensions, no logs produced

Impact

• No logs generated
• Crash is immediate, before application or extension loading
• Cannot use VSCode Insiders at all on Windows

Steps to Reproduce

1. Update to the latest VSCode Insiders v1.107.36256.0 for Windows.
2. Launch code-insiders.

Notes

• The previous Insiders build (1.106.0) worked fine.
• The issue appears specific to the latest build.

[som1ein]

Attaching some additional information collected using windbg Time Travel Debugging (TTD).

windbg-vscode-timetravel.txt

[som1ein]

Downgrade to version 1.106.0-insider fixes the issue.

Version: 1.106.0-insider (user setup)
Commit: 00e7d11c2ef29538a0395dab7a5bf4be8719d790
Date: 2025-10-27T20:22:50.391Z
Electron: 37.7.0
ElectronBuildId: 12597478
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22631

[deepak1556]

Can you share the dump file following the steps in https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Native-Crash-Issues#creating-a-crash-report

[som1ein]

I shared the requested crash dump using an email.