❗❗❗ Crashing Rainmeter - April 2022 Windows Update

[SilverAzide]

This is just a public service announcement that may be of interest, especially with the upcoming patch Tuesday (May 10 2022 and earlier).

Suddenly as of today, I've gotten a number of reports all at once regarding Rainmeter crashing for users of my Gadgets suite. Another user of an older version of Rainmeter posted a similar help question just now on the forums here.

The common thread among all the reporting is:

1. recent Windows updates, and
2. skins that use UsageMonitor and/or PerfMon plugins.

The apparent fix for the crashing issue is to rebuild your Performance Counters database. Instructions can be found here:

Fixing problems with UsageMonitor plugin, or here:
HOW TO: Fix your Performance Counters database.

Edit:
Odd spike in performance counter corruption reports seems to have abated with the passing of Patch Tuesday.