AltAppSwitcher always crashes within seconds of running

[ncvbn]

Whenever I run AltAppSwitcher.exe it crashes within a few seconds. It has never managed to run long enough to have any effect on Alt-Tab behavior in Windows 11.

[hdlx]

Can you share the content of the log file ? It's a txt file next to the exe.

[ncvbn]

Unfortunately, I can't find any txt files next to the exe (unless you count AltAppSwitcherConfig.txt, which dates back to the installation). The closest thing I can find is a file named Report.wer located in a C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppCrash_AltAppSwitcher.e_[hexcode] folder.

[hdlx]

No, I meant another txt file, AltAppSwitcherLog.txt.
Its absence means that the crash/shutdown of AAS is not catch by AAS assert system 🙁. Maybe I can have a look at the file you mentioned if you share it.
Without any AAS log, it's quite hard to guess what's happening. One thing I can think of is antivirus shutting down suspicious exe. Can you check you antivirus (windows defender or third party) threat history?

[ncvbn]

1. There’s nothing in the Protection History of Windows Defender. Or at least it says “No recent actions".
2. It produces two different crash reports at the exact same time, both named Report.wer and each in a different folder.
3. I can now confirm that it doesn’t crash until I press Alt-Tab. (I ran the exe file at 9:35am, but didn’t press Alt-Tab until 9:40am, and the two crash reports were immediately generated upon that event of pressing Alt-Tab.)
4. I can’t attach the Report.wer files to this comment unless I rename them to Report.wer.txt (which is what I’ve done).

Report.wer.txt

Report.wer.txt

[ncvbn]

I'm just following up on this problem.

[hdlx]

I still have no clue :/
I added more logs for debugging in https://github.com/hdlx/AltAppSwitcher/releases/tag/v0.90
Can you please try and share AltAppSwitcherLog.txt
Also I'll try to add crash dump generation in the future

[ncvbn]

As I've said, I'm afraid there is no such file as "AltAppSwitcherLog.txt".

[hdlx]

I understood that but I added more error reports in v0.90. Just starting the app should now log message into that file (creating the file if missing) before the crash occurs.

If you confirm that there is no log file at all even with v0.90, that's a valuable info, it suggest that creating the log file itself fails.

Maybe the issue is related to write permission. Can you create it by hand and see if it gets filled with info once AAS is run?