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TFabris wrote on Apr 2, 2024, 13:24:Years ago a Microsoft Windows Software Engineer wrote an article about troubleshooting his mother’s computer while he was visiting her over a long weekend. Now normally he would have just saved her data and reinstalled the OS, but his high school friends were razzing him about being a hoity toity “software engineer” and teased him about fixing it the easy way. So he thought he’d show them, after all he did have the know how, access to the latest tools and extensive on the job experience.
Weird idea, but, do you have any automation tools running which are designed to send or modify keystrokes or other commands to applications? Maybe discord isn't crashing, but rather, being closed down by some other process. You said that no error messages are appearing and there's nothing in the event viewer to indicate a crash. For example, on my systems, I would often have event-driven or timed scripts which would deliberately stop certain processes that I didn't want running because they interfered with other things. Maybe something like that is being overzealous. Maybe something as simple as an antivirus program detecting malicious activity, either as a false alarm or valid detection.
As mentioned elsewhere in the comments already: Windows has some developer-level features which are intended to trap crashes of applications, and write a crash/debug dump file. These fall under the general heading of "post-mortem debugging". If Discord is genuinely crashing, you should be able to configure Windows to trap that and then open the dump file in a debugger. The debugger can be daunting, but you don't need to actually diagnose the bug, just find enough info to point you in the right direction.