Codex Windows app crashes on startup in windows-updater.node

Summary:
The Codex Windows app crashes immediately after launch. The Microsoft Store app is installed and the package status is Ok, but the app exits within about 10 seconds and creates a Crashpad dump every time.

Environment:

• Codex Windows app: 26.608.1337.0
• Codex CLI: 0.139.0
• OS: Windows 11 Home 10.0.26200 x64
• Display adapter: Intel(R) UHD Graphics 620
• Display driver version: 26.20.100.7323

Steps already tried:

• Repaired the app with winget repair --name Codex
• Reset the Codex AppxPackage
• Uninstalled and reinstalled the Codex Microsoft Store app
• Launched with --disable-gpu
• Launched while blocking the persistent.oaistatic.com update manifest request

Result:

• The app still exits shortly after startup.
• The Codex CLI continues to work normally.
• The %USERPROFILE%\.codex directory and CLI configuration were preserved.

Crash observations:

• Exception code: 0xE06D7363
• Throw module: KERNELBASE.dll
• The stack repeatedly includes this module:

C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\OpenAI.Codex_26.608.1337.0_x64__2p2nqsd0c76g0\app\resources\native\windows-updater.node

Relevant log file:
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\OpenAI.Codex_2p2nqsd0c76g0\LocalCache\Local\Codex\Logs\2026\06\10\codex-desktop-2e464562-c2e4-4c82-963f-24f61e2857bd-18708-t0-i1-173334-0.log

Relevant Crashpad dump:
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\OpenAI.Codex_2p2nqsd0c76g0\LocalCache\Roaming\Codex\web\Codex\Crashpad\reports\bce0dc18-09b6-4035-823e-f75ff3a4b093.dmp

Privacy note:
I am not attaching auth.json or any files from %USERPROFILE%\.codex. I can provide the Crashpad dump if a maintainer needs it.

codex_crash_safe_to_attach.zip