explorer.exe continuously crashing since the 2024-12 cumulative update for Windows (KB5048161 and KB5048652)

[Microsoft Windows]

Hello!After automatically installing the KB5048161 and KB5048652 updates my explorer.exe process keeps crashing and restarting every ~7 seconds. Uninstalling these updates fixes the crash loop, though from the looks of it I can't seem to pause the windows updates.Seeing the reply to this thread, Redirecting, I grabbed some crash dumps using WER and it seems to always be crashing in:> explorer.exe!std::basic_string<unsigned short, struct std::char_traits<unsigned short>, c

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