Turning off File Explorer heap termination on corruption must be disabled.

From Windows 8 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Part of Windows Explorer – Heap Termination

Associated with IA controls: ECSC-1

SV-48254r1_rule Turning off File Explorer heap termination on corruption must be disabled.

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Legacy plug-in applications may continue to function when a File Explorer session has become corrupt. Disabling this feature will prevent this.

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Configure the policy value for Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> File Explorer -> "Turn off heap termination on corruption" to "Disabled".

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