DOpus causes Windows 11 24H2 Explorer to crash even when DOpus is not running

I tried Windows 11 24H2, and after rebooting after installing DOpus, DOpus caused Windows 11 24H2 Explorer-related components to crash, even without DOpus running, mainly causing programs launched from the taskbar to crash, even including the settings panel.
Even if I disable all options on startup in preferences it doesn't help. This is very strange, so even if it's an unstable Windows version I thought it should be reported. (I spent two hours checking more than a dozen installed software, which really surprised me.)

Edit: DOpus v13.7.8 Windows 11 24H2 26100.1150

What makes you say it's Opus doing it, if Opus isn't even running?

I uninstalled a lot of software and rebooted multiple times, Explorer always crashed, but once I uninstalled DOpus, everything worked fine, and later I also had doubts, and installed and uninstalled DOpus again, which confirmed the result.
(It could also be that Explorer made some changes?)

According to Windows 11 2024 Update: What you need to know about version 24H2 | Windows Central that's a pre-release build of Windows 11?

We don't support those, and the purpose of installing them is so you can tell Microsoft if there is instability or other problems so they can fix things before general release. The crashes should be reported to Microsoft.

(Unless you have one of the new ARM laptops, which are essentially given pre-release versions of Windows because Microsoft weren't ready for the hardware launch.)

I just report it in advance to prevent Microsoft from making changes in subsequent official versions.
(I can use DOpus as a portable version, so there is no problem for the time being.)

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After installing .NET Framework 3.5, the problem has not occurred again these days.
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That suggests the problem was never really with Opus at all, since we don't use .Net for anything ourselves.

(Nice checkboxes in Microsoft's UI there! Maybe one day they'll learn to use their own OS and UI frameworks.)

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