Settings crash on exit

[astenmark]

I'm switching to a new Windows PC, and one weird thing blocking me is that VirtualBox consistently crashes on the new PC when I exit settings. After long hours of trying to figure out why, I think I've finally narrowed it down to being a conflict with Sticky Password.

The error is easy to reproduce on my end, and does not seem to be related to any particular virtual machine. I start up VirtualBox, click Settings or go to Preferences, immediately click cancel, and VirtualBox crashes with the following error in event viewer:

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Faulting application name: VirtualBox.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x559faaf3
Faulting module name: QtCoreVBox4.dll, version: 4.8.4.0, time stamp: 0x534803be
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00000000001188c4
Faulting process id: 0x710
Faulting application start time: 0x01d0cb918ccb0b52
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VirtualBox.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\QtCoreVBox4.dll

Nothing relevant is logged by VB as far as I can tell, but I can attach logs later if that's at all helpful.

If I exit Sticky Password and do the same thing everything works fine. On my old PC both apps have coexisted for years without any issues.

New PC is Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (same thing happened on 8.1), Sticky Password 8.0.4.34, VirtualBox 4.3.30.
Old PC is Windows 7 Pro 64-bit, Sticky Password 7.0.7.69, VirtualBox 4.3.12

Anyone else see anything similar? Or any idea why this is happening? I can't tell for sure that it's a problem with VirtualBox, but VB is the app that's doing the crashing, and other apps seem to work fine with SP running.

[astenmark]

Alright, perhaps I'm the only one using this particular combination of software. I've come across a temporary fix, and I'll post it here in case anyone else should need it and stumble upon it.

The fix is to turn off UI Automation in the Sticky Password settings. Go to Settings / Miscellaneous, at the bottom of the form there's a checkbox that needs to be ticked. Save and possibly restart the PC; then that's it. This stops the crashes for me.