garmin express 7.18 released yesterday crashes every time on win7 pro 64bit

Same here. Tried reinstalling it - same result. This version crashes on Windows 7 Pro.

Several people have reported issues with Win 7 Pro, and a few people have resolved the issues by rolling back to some previous version.  Also, my personal recommendation is should you chose to use a severely outdated O/S, and if you have a working version of GE, then don’t update GE unless you  are directly affected by something addressed in the newer version release notes.  Again, just my opinion.

I upgraded because of the previous version introduced a bug whereby one could not disable the auto startup at boot for express.exe. There are many of us out here who are forced to still use win7 because of special dependent software... and yes we have to be careful. I dont use it for e.mail or download unknown software. I only maintain long-used programs I depend on.

You may wish to roll GE back to a working version. Ways were discovered with Win 10 to disable the GE auto startup so likey that is the case with Win 7 as well.

everything is broken, even reinstalling older version is useless, GE don't start even on W11 and W10 22H2. 

I have the same issue on two computers both running Windows 10 Pro 64bit..

update: on W10 22H2 re-install an older version is useless (none of the older versions starts), on W11 reinstalling 7.17.3 worked. 

Possible fix for 7.18.0.0 version on Win7 Pro x64
Garmin express crash on startup is related with System.AccessViolationException which is not handled in code.
To fix crashes go to folder where Garmin Express is installed
example:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Garmin\Express
In Express folder find express.exe.config file, edit it with notepad or notepad++ and
after tag <runtime> add line with <legacyCorruptedStateExceptionsPolicy enabled="true" />

example:
<runtime>
   <legacyCorruptedStateExceptionsPolicy enabled="true" />
    <assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
      <dependentAssembly>

save changes in express.exe.config file and start garmin express application.


About exception:
learn.microsoft.com/.../clr-inside-out-handling-corrupted-state-exceptions
learn.microsoft.com/.../system.accessviolationexception

It works,THANKS!

Yep! This particular solution actually worked!!!

To novice users: probable problem with the save access during editing the exe file can be solved by changing the acces rights to the particular file!