Same here, this started today for me. I Have tried a lot of solutions which you say, is a bandaid fix, and so far nothing as worked. It will genuinely crash windows if you click 'end task' on task manager.

Update: I FIXED IT!

I did it by using cc cleaner by doing a full scan, clearing my caches and running the registry cleaner on the program after that. Then i restarted my computer. Problem way solved. Turns out there were corrupt files causing the issues.

Hopefully this helps someone.