Network tray icon disappered and DWM crash which sometimes causes webview dead

[lkk9898969]

Before reporting your issue

• My version of Windows is up to date (Atleast up to April 2024 as per update warning)
• I'm running the latest version or the one prior of the Windows 10to7 Transformation Pack (I checked the changelog on the downloads page before opening the issue).

What version of Windows 10 are you using the transformation pack on?

Windows 10 LTSC 19044.5965

What version of the Transformation Pack are you having issues with?

3.6.1.1

Summarise the issue

1. network tray icon disappered

The icon just grayed out. I googled several solutions but nothing fix this issue.
I am not sure when it happened.

2. DWM crash
   DWM often crashes randomly. If DWM "decided" to crash, then when I trigger explorer message box (like permanently delete message box), DWM always crash. I need to reboot my PC several times and hope it has good mood.
   I mean "decide" because if DWM has not crashed once, then everything is working fine.
   Also, it sometimes cause webview dead. (like Edge, Discord, and other webview app) Webview just stops responding, but I can hear sound if Edge is playing video, and I can close Edge normally.
   This issue is happend after an Windows update. Not sure which update is causing this, but it should be one of the two updates below, as the problem has only occurred recently.
   

Screenshots

No response

How do you reproduce the bug/inaccuracy?

After installed an Windows update, then repatched the transformation pack.

It could be caused by one of the two updates.

Expected behaviour

Not crash as usual.

Additional Context

No response

[ImSwordQueen]

Do you use the old network flyout tweak? If so, I think the most recent update reverts some file needed it to work so It won't show up. use this pack to restore those files: https://aubymori.github.io/#!/files/win7-network-flyout

[lkk9898969]

Do you use the old network flyout tweak? If so, I think the most recent update reverts some file needed it to work so It won't show up. use this pack to restore those files: https://aubymori.github.io/#!/files/win7-network-flyout

No I dont. I can use the "ms-availablenetworks:" command to call out the network flyout.

Only the network icon is grayed out, everything else is fine.

[ImSwordQueen]

Do you use the old network flyout tweak? If so, I think the most recent update reverts some file needed it to work so It won't show up. use this pack to restore those files: https://aubymori.github.io/#!/files/win7-network-flyout

No I dont. I can use the "ms-availablenetworks:" command to call out the network flyout. Only the network icon is grayed out, everything else is fine.

Could you try using this pnidui and see if it restores the icon? (Or you could do a sfc /scanfile="C:\Windows\System32\pnidui.dll" too if that DLL does not work)
pnidui.zip

[lkk9898969]

Could you try using this pnidui and see if it restores the icon? (Or you could do a sfc /scanfile="C:\Windows\System32\pnidui.dll" too if that DLL does not work)
pnidui.zip

Well, this file didn't in my system32 folder. Weird.

That DLL didn't work.

SFC scan didn't work either.

[ImSwordQueen]

Could you try using this pnidui and see if it restores the icon? (Or you could do a sfc /scanfile="C:\Windows\System32\pnidui.dll" too if that DLL does not work)
pnidui.zip

Well, this file didn't in my system32 folder. Weird.

That DLL didn't work.

SFC scan didn't work either.

Wait, Pnidui didn't exist in system32 before? If you have Microsoft Defender please check if it didn't flag the original file (and the MUIs) as as a false positive.

[lkk9898969]

Could you try using this pnidui and see if it restores the icon? (Or you could do a sfc /scanfile="C:\Windows\System32\pnidui.dll" too if that DLL does not work)
pnidui.zip

Well, this file didn't in my system32 folder. Weird.
That DLL didn't work.
SFC scan didn't work either.

Wait, Pnidui didn't exist in system32 before? If you have Microsoft Defender please check if it didn't flag the original file (and the MUIs) as as a false positive.

I didn't see Pnidui in the Protection History, but I used WinDefLogView then I saw defender flag pnidui.dll as Trojan.

[ImSwordQueen]

Could you try using this pnidui and see if it restores the icon? (Or you could do a sfc /scanfile="C:\Windows\System32\pnidui.dll" too if that DLL does not work)
pnidui.zip

Well, this file didn't in my system32 folder. Weird.
That DLL didn't work.
SFC scan didn't work either.

Wait, Pnidui didn't exist in system32 before? If you have Microsoft Defender please check if it didn't flag the original file (and the MUIs) as as a false positive.

I didn't see Pnidui in the Protection History, but I used WinDefLogView then I saw defender flag pnidui.dll as Trojan.

Microsoft incompetency strikes again...

Could you try to do "C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MpCmdRun.exe" -restore -listall and do "C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MpCmdRun.exe" -restore -name "Filename" for any pnidui related file

Also for DWM crashing, Could you send the crash dump that is found in c:\AWM\Dumps?

[lkk9898969]

Microsoft incompetency strikes again...

Could you try to do "C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MpCmdRun.exe" -restore -listall and do "C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MpCmdRun.exe" -restore -name "Filename" for any pnidui related file

Also for DWM crashing, Could you send the crash dump that is found in c:\AWM\Dumps?

Did I do it right?

After I restarted, the icon still greyed out.

I found out that pnidui didn't restore so I do it again.

Not sure why there is error.

Also the dump files is too big so I zip it and upload to gofile.
https://gofile.io/d/7risu1

[ImSwordQueen]

Microsoft incompetency strikes again...
Could you try to do "C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MpCmdRun.exe" -restore -listall and do "C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MpCmdRun.exe" -restore -name "Filename" for any pnidui related file
Also for DWM crashing, Could you send the crash dump that is found in c:\AWM\Dumps?

Did I do it right? After I restarted, the icon still greyed out.

I found out that pnidui didn't restore so I do it again. Not sure why there is error.

Also the dump files is too big so I zip it and upload to gofile. https://gofile.io/d/7risu1

I think it didn't restore because there is a pnidui existing. Windows really didn't like your install for some reason and started flagging a lot of patched system files.

Try importing this

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{C2796011-81BA-4148-8FCA-C6643245113F}]
@="Network Tray SSO"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{C2796011-81BA-4148-8FCA-C6643245113F}\InProcServer32]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\
  00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,70,00,6e,00,\
  69,00,64,00,75,00,69,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,00,00
"ThreadingModel"="Both"

[ImSwordQueen]

Also for DWM. Could you try replacing the AWM build with this one and see if the issue persists? https://github.com/ImSwordQueen/aero-window-manager-OPL-2.0/releases/download/1/awm.zip

and if it doesn't. could you send me the latest dump that happens with this build

[lkk9898969]

I think it didn't restore because there is a pnidui existing. Windows really didn't like your install for some reason and started flagging a lot of patched system files.

Try importing this

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{C2796011-81BA-4148-8FCA-C6643245113F}]
@="Network Tray SSO"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{C2796011-81BA-4148-8FCA-C6643245113F}\InProcServer32]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\
  00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,70,00,6e,00,\
  69,00,64,00,75,00,69,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,00,00
"ThreadingModel"="Both"

Finally it works! Thank you so much.

Also for dwm, if it crash again when I trigger permanently delete message box or the crash causes webview dead, I will send the dump to you. Thanks!

[ImSwordQueen]

I think it didn't restore because there is a pnidui existing. Windows really didn't like your install for some reason and started flagging a lot of patched system files.
Try importing this

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{C2796011-81BA-4148-8FCA-C6643245113F}]
@="Network Tray SSO"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{C2796011-81BA-4148-8FCA-C6643245113F}\InProcServer32]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\
  00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,70,00,6e,00,\
  69,00,64,00,75,00,69,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,00,00
"ThreadingModel"="Both"

Finally it works! Thank you so much.

Also for dwm, if it crash again when I trigger permanently delete message box or the crash causes webview dead, I will send the dump to you. Thanks!

Did any crash happen or has the issue been resolved?

[lkk9898969]

Did any crash happen or has the issue been resolved?

Had some crash on startup. But DWM did not crash again when I trigger permanently delete message box. Also DWM did not crash when system is stable, so I think it's fine for now.

[lkk9898969]

Did any crash happen or has the issue been resolved?

Had some crash on startup. But DWM did not crash again when I trigger permanently delete message box. Also DWM did not crash when system is stable, so I think it's fine for now.

oh well, although I just said it didn't crash, but here we go. When I move the lnk file, DWM crashed and caused webview dead (it was edge, ​​to be precise)
https://gofile.io/d/7risu1
here is the dump file.