There someone ran into exactly this problem during an MDT task sequence. The issue is discussed on in the article Windows 10 1903/1909 Display Settings page crash. Perhaps its an issue with the Store app, preventing you from downloading and updating any of. Because of these malfunctions, the user faces any of the following issues: Start button is not responding. Sometimes an app on Windows 10 just doesn’t want to play nice. Most of the problems, identified as malfunctions in the Taskbar and several Windows features or apps. He started the service once and was able to access and use the settings page again. Since Windows 10 were published, I have faced many different issues with the latest OS.

For him the cause was a deactivated service 'CDPSvc' ('platform service for connected devices'). Martin was kind enough to tell us the reason for the crash. According to the eventlog the crash of 'SystemSettings.exe' has something to do with an error of 'msvcrt.dll'. The topic is very old, but I also had the problem of a crashed settings app on a freshly installed machine with Windwhen you try to access the display settings. But this is not always true, because blog reader Martin Feuerstein ran into the problem of the crashing Settings app in September 2020 on a freshly installed Windows 10. Optimists claim that it has become more stable and it was also said that the crash bug in the settings app has been fixed by Microsoft. Meanwhile we have 2020 and Windows 10 has gone through a few generations. As repair approaches I presented a fixit tool as well as manual repair methods.

The users can't change any settings, because the Settings app crashes immediately after calling it. The blog post was about the problem that some users who upgraded from Windows 7/8.1 to Windows 10 were facing issues. I had already covered the topic in 2015 in the German blog post Windows 10: Einstellungen-App stürzt ab – und ein Fix-Tool, that was shortly after the release of Windows 10.

Windows 10 apps crash on launch