Windows 10 ShellExperienceHost crashes

I recently cloned my Windows 10 partition from HDD to SSD.

I cannot open the Start Menu, Notifications, or anything that uses ShellExperienceHost. This includes things like the Calculator app, Edge browser and the metro style right click menu when you right click on an app in the taskbar.

Every time I try to open one of these, I get an error in the event log:

Faulting application name: ShellExperienceHost.exe, version: 10.0.10240.16515, time stamp: 0x55fa599a
Faulting module name: Windows.UI.Xaml.dll, version: 10.0.10240.16548, time stamp: 0x56133a14
Exception code: 0xc0000409
Fault offset: 0x0000000000533ad2
Faulting process id: 0x39ac
Faulting application start time: 0x01d18ad380a6bb12
Faulting application path: C:\Windows\SystemApps\ShellExperienceHost_cw5n1h2txyewy\ShellExperienceHost.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\System32\Windows.UI.Xaml.dll
Report Id: 61c0dd6c-b61f-42e5-9130-ecfa1fa87cac
Faulting package full name: 
Faulting package-relative application ID: 

If I open ShellExperienceHost.exe using WinDbg, I get the following output:

CommandLine: C:\Windows\SystemApps\ShellExperienceHost_cw5n1h2txyewy\ShellExperienceHost.exe

************* Symbol Path validation summary **************
Response                         Time (ms)     Location
Deferred                                       srv*c:\symbols*https://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols
Symbol search path is: srv*c:\symbols*https://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols
Executable search path is: 
ModLoad: 00007ff7`70830000 00007ff7`70a03000   ShellExperienceHost.exe
ModLoad: 00007ff9`b66f0000 00007ff9`b68b2000   ntdll.dll
ModLoad: 00007ff9`b4800000 00007ff9`b48ad000   C:\Windows\system32\KERNEL32.DLL
ModLoad: 00007ff9`b3bc0000 00007ff9`b3d9d000   C:\Windows\system32\KERNELBASE.dll
ModLoad: 00007ff9`b44b0000 00007ff9`b472c000   C:\Windows\system32\combase.dll
ModLoad: 00007ff9`b48b0000 00007ff9`b494d000   C:\Windows\system32\msvcrt.dll
ModLoad: 00007ff9`b4370000 00007ff9`b4496000   C:\Windows\system32\RPCRT4.dll
ModLoad: 00007ff9`b4220000 00007ff9`b4361000   C:\Windows\system32\ole32.dll
ModLoad: 00007ff9`b3f90000 00007ff9`b3feb000   C:\Windows\system32\sechost.dll
ModLoad: 00007ff9`93300000 00007ff9`9336a000   C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\wincorlib.DLL
ModLoad: 00007ff9`b6330000 00007ff9`b63ee000   C:\Windows\system32\OLEAUT32.dll
ModLoad: 00007ff9`b61a0000 00007ff9`b6326000   C:\Windows\system32\GDI32.dll
ModLoad: 00007ff9`b3ff0000 00007ff9`b413e000   C:\Windows\system32\USER32.dll
(4910.46c8): Break instruction exception - code 80000003 (first chance)
ntdll!LdrpDoDebuggerBreak+0x30:
00007ff9`b67ae510 cc              int     3
0:000> gn
ModLoad: 00007ff9`b4730000 00007ff9`b4766000   C:\Windows\system32\IMM32.DLL
ModLoad: 00007ff9`b4b10000 00007ff9`b4c6c000   C:\Windows\system32\MSCTF.dll
ModLoad: 00007ff9`b2ff0000 00007ff9`b3021000   C:\Windows\system32\nvinitx.dll
ModLoad: 00007ff9`b63f0000 00007ff9`b6496000   C:\Windows\system32\ADVAPI32.dll
ModLoad: 00007ff9`b2fe0000 00007ff9`b2fea000   C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\VERSION.dll
ModLoad: 00007ff9`b3170000 00007ff9`b317f000   C:\Windows\system32\kernel.appcore.dll
ModLoad: 00007ff9`b2ed0000 00007ff9`b2f3b000   C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\bcryptPrimitives.dll
ModLoad: 00007ff9`b6570000 00007ff9`b6615000   C:\Windows\system32\clbcatq.dll
ModLoad: 00007ff9`75130000 00007ff9`76126000   C:\Windows\System32\Windows.UI.Xaml.dll
ModLoad: 00007ff9`aeaa0000 00007ff9`aebd1000   C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\wintypes.dll
ModLoad: 00007ff9`b0b30000 00007ff9`b0bf8000   C:\Windows\System32\CoreMessaging.dll
ModLoad: 00007ff9`92ba0000 00007ff9`92c06000   C:\Windows\System32\Bcp47Langs.dll
ModLoad: 00007ff9`a8c10000 00007ff9`a8f86000   C:\Windows\System32\iertutil.dll
ModLoad: 00007ff9`b32a0000 00007ff9`b3353000   C:\Windows\system32\shcore.dll
ModLoad: 00007ff9`b0ad0000 00007ff9`b0b2c000   C:\Windows\System32\NInput.dll
windows\dxaml\xcp\dxaml\lib\frameworkapplication_partial.cpp(136)\Windows.UI.Xaml.dll!00007FF97563E864: (caller: 00007FF770885394) FailFast(1) tid(46c8) 8000FFFF Catastrophic failure
(4910.46c8): Security check failure or stack buffer overrun - code c0000409 (!!! second chance !!!)
Windows_UI_Xaml!wil::details::ReportFailure+0x1dee4a:
00007ff9`75663ad2 cd29            int     29h

I have already tried:

• Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth

• Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth

• Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}

• Deleting %LOCALAPPDATA%\TileDataLayer\Database and rebooting

• Creating a new user

Short of refreshing Windows 10 and losing all my installed programs (I have a dev environment installed that would take a long time to replace), is there anything else I can try?

I am getting by with replacing the Windows Start Menu with Classic Shell, but it is quite annoying not being able to see the notifications area.

I've been struggling with this for days and went through hundreds of pages of solutions. Nothing worked, until I hit this page, where at page 22 user PaulSturm recommended to run a repair using Tweaking.com - Windows Repair Free/Pro.

I was obviously very suspicious of this, but quite a few people said it worked for them and I was willing to try anything after spending so much time with this, thanks to Microsoft's despicable support.

You will need to install it, start the application, restart in safe boot mode when it asks and then run the default selected repairs. No need for the pre-scan, sfc scan or anything outside the repairs section (other than the strongly recommended backup and system restore point). It took about 20 minutes for me but everything was back to normal after a restart following the repairs. I don't know exactly which fix did it, but it's the ONLY thing that worked for me.

Again, I don't expect you to trust me on this, but there are quite a few people on that Microsoft page that vouch for it. Make sure you're comfortable with using this and do make a backup and a system restore when asked.