Codex Windows Desktop crashes immediately after startup on Windows 10.0.26200

Open 💬 2 comments Opened Jun 18, 2026 by liaj7
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

## Summary

Codex Desktop for Windows launches, writes the first startup
log lines, then exits immediately. A Crashpad .dmp is
created on every launch. The CLI continues to work.

## Environment

  • Codex Windows app: 26.611.8604.0
  • Previous version before reinstall/update: 26.611.8273.0
  • Codex CLI: 0.140.0
  • Windows: 10.0.26200
  • Runtime shown in Sentry scope: Electron/Chrome

149.0.7827.115

  • CPU: 11th Gen Intel Core i5-1135G7
  • GPU: Intel Iris Xe Graphics
  • GPU driver: 32.0.101.6874
  • Timezone: Asia/Singapore

## Repro Steps

  1. Install Codex Desktop from Microsoft Store / `winget

install Codex -s msstore`.

  1. Launch Codex Desktop normally or via:

```powershell
codex app "C:\Users\전목련\Vibe coding\organizer"

  1. App exits before showing a usable window.

## Observed Behavior

Latest app log contains only:

Launching app agentRunId=null allowDebugMenu=false
allowDevtools=false allowInspectElement=false
buildFlavor=prod enableSparkle=false enableUpdater=true
nodeEnv=undefined packaged=true platform=win32
Appshot hotkey inactive configured=true enabled=true
platform=win32

A new Crashpad dump is created for each launch.

## Expected Behavior

Codex Desktop should stay open and show the workspace UI.

## Diagnostics Already Tried

  • Updated/reinstalled Store package from 26.611.8273.0 to

26.611.8604.0.

  • Cleared Electron/Chromium cache and profile data.
  • Tested with GPU disabled:

--disable-gpu --disable-gpu-compositing

  • Tested stronger software rendering:

--disable-gpu --disable-gpu-compositing --disable-direct-
composition --use-angle=swiftshader --disable-
features=CalculateNativeWinOcclusion

  • Tested with updater disabled:

$env:CODEX_SPARKLE_ENABLED='false'

  • Tested with a temporary empty CODEX_HOME.
  • Tested with an isolated Chromium --user-data-dir.
  • Stopped other stale Codex CLI/helper processes.
  • CLI still works; only Desktop crashes.

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2 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 2 months ago

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

  • #28883
  • #28670
  • #28262
  • #28319
  • #27506

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parkgyongho1-design · 2 months ago

Same issue here.

Codex Windows app: 26.611.8604.0
Windows build: 10.0.26200.8655
Symptom: app exits immediately after launch, no window appears.
Crash dumps are generated as node.exe.*.dmp in %LOCALAPPDATA%\CrashDumps.

node.exe.11296.dmp