Policy

Turn off heap termination on corruption

Disabling heap termination on corruption can allow certain legacy plug-in applications to function without terminating Explorer immediately, although Explorer may still terminate unexpectedly later.

Policy

PackMicrosoft Windows

CategoryWindows Components / File Explorer

Policy ID3d04e887872a

Internal nameNoHeapTerminationOnCorruption

Registry

Copy registry mappings

HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\NoHeapTerminationOnCorruption (enabled) = 1
HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\NoHeapTerminationOnCorruption (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

Disabling heap termination on corruption can allow certain legacy plug-in applications to function without terminating Explorer immediately, although Explorer may still terminate unexpectedly later.

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