"Stardock Notifications Stopped Working" Windows error

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Hello Stardock:    Anyone encountered this Stardock error in the Windows Reliability Monitor?  It seems to be related to the Stardock Notifications scheduled task.   Occurs every few days, usually at the same clock time (indicates scheduled task start?).   Win 11 Pro 25H2 Start 11 2.6.  Apparently doesn't interfere with correct Stardock menu/taskbar operation, so not a critical issue but a fix may  be needed.  Problem log from Reliability Monitor below.

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Source 
Stardock Notifications

Summary
Stopped working

Date
‎2/‎8/‎2026 2:15 AM

Status
Report sent

Description
Faulting Application Path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Stardock\Notifications\Stardock.Notifications.exe

Problem signature
Problem Event Name: CLR20r3
Problem Signature 01: Stardock.Notifications.exe
Problem Signature 02: 1.1.13.20473
Problem Signature 03: 67cf03b2
Problem Signature 04: System.Configuration
Problem Signature 05: 4.8.9221.0
Problem Signature 06: 68532176
Problem Signature 07: 291
Problem Signature 08: 28
Problem Signature 09: System.TypeInitialization
OS Version: 10.0.26200.2.0.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 2beb
Additional Information 2: 2beba6fb4680d73a8c78ca7c24ccdb46
Additional Information 3: 21f4
Additional Information 4: 21f490c97ffe7401ca9b0225dfcf9edd
Extra information about the problem
Bucket ID: 7d6ba1ff1a964aacc175afac9b63b9ed (1258104826796161517)

 

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,
I have forwarded your problem/question to Stardock Support Team for their assistance. Please keep an eye on this thread for any updates. We appreciate your feedback and patience. Thank you.

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

If you, upon installing one of our apps, were prompted to install WebView2 but you declined, that could be the issue (99.9999999% of Win10\11 PCs have this installed already by some other app or Windows update itself). You could install one of our modern apps (Start11 v2, Fences 6, etc) and it would prompt to install it again. You can also get it from here:

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/?form=MA13LH

Should that fail, there is a Stardock.Notifications.log for it here, could you PM it to me or post a share link to it here (from GoogleDrive, OneDrive, etc)?

%LocalAppData%\stardock\notifications (paste that into Windows File Explorer)

Sean Drohan
Stardock Product Lifecycle Manager

 

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Sean & Basj:  The Stardock.Notifications.log file is shared at -- 

https://gofile.io/d/bViZD0

I'll look into WebView2 installation.  It does not appear in the list of regularly installed apps or system components.    Thanks.

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Adding WebView2 did not seem to change situation.  So I used Autoruns utility to disable the Stardock.Notification task, checking for impact of that configuration change.  

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting larrycraw, reply 4

So I used Autoruns utility to disable the Stardock.Notification task, checking for impact of that configuration change.  

Ok, but there is always this option - to see why its failing. 

Quoting sdRohan, reply 2

Should that fail, there is a Stardock.Notifications.log for it here, could you PM it to me or post a share link to it here (from GoogleDrive, OneDrive, etc)?

%LocalAppData%\stardock\notifications (paste that into Windows File Explorer)

Sean Drohan
Product Lifecycle Manager