The report of this bug quite outdated so can be closed but I found that in the documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/shellapi/nf-shellapi-shellexecutea
> Because ShellExecute can delegate execution to Shell extensions (data > sources, context menu handlers, verb implementations) that are activated > using Component Object Model (COM), COM should be initialized before > ShellExecute is called. Some Shell extensions require the COM single-threaded > apartment (STA) type. In that case, COM should be initialized as shown here: > CoInitializeEx(NULL, COINIT_APARTMENTTHREADED | COINIT_DISABLE_OLE1DDE) But this CoInitializeEx is missed in the Desktop class. Absent of this initialization caused some other crashes in past, see JDK-6950553 for example: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6950553 ------------- Commit messages: - Initial fix Changes: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1369/files Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.java.net/?repo=jdk&pr=1369&range=00 Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6508941 Stats: 14 lines in 1 file changed: 11 ins; 0 del; 3 mod Patch: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1369.diff Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk pull/1369/head:pull/1369 PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1369
