"VR Dashboard has stopped working" when exiting SteamVR.

[Hoover1979]

Hi. First of all, I am loving my Vive.

 

I do have one issue though. Although I can run SteamVR with no problems as well as not having any issues with any VR title I have tried so far, what is happening is when I exit SteamVR (either from my desktop or through the HMD instead of a clean exit I get "VR Dashboard has stopped working". This happens 100% of the time and on both stable and beta builds, and even if I uninstall and reinstall SteamVR the problem persists.

 
The problem seems to be the OS, not SteamVR

According to Windows Event Viewer, the CTD is an Access Violation Error (0xc00000005) and it's being triggered by C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ntdll.dll. Does anyone here have a solution to this that doesn't involve formatting my C: drive and performing a clean install of Windows 7 (That's a nightmare and takes days to get all my programs up and running again)?

 

PS: I have tried to supply as much information on the crash as possible, if the information I provided is insufficient, please ask what is required and I will provide this information, if possible.

PC Specs:
Windows 7 Professional 64bit on Samsung 860 pro 256Gb SSD.

ASUS Z97-k Mobo.

Pioneer 16x Blu-Ray Burner/Player.

Corsair HX850i Platinum Grade 850w PSU.

Intel i7-4790k in turbo mode 4.4Ghz.

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32Gb Corsair Vengeance pro 2400 DDR3 RAM.

XMP Overclocking set in BIOS.

8Gb Gigabyte Xtreme Gaming GTX1080 OC PCIe Waterforce GFX Card.

417.17 WHQL Nvidia Display Drivers (Later drivers crash my Media Player and Photoshop with BSOD crashes).

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Logitech Z906 THX Certified 5.1 Surround Speakers and LFE.

WD Gold Enterprise class 10Tb DataCenter 7,200RPM HDD.

WD 4Tb internal HDD.

WD Caviar 1.5Tb Internal HDD.

WD Elements 1Tb External USB 3.0 HDD.

WD Elements 3Tb External USB 3.0 HDD.

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AVerMedia Volar Green USB2.0 HDTV Tuner.

Microsoft Xbox One XINPUT Controller (connected via MicroUSB to avoid Win10 requirement).

Razer Black Widow Chroma V2 Keyboard.

Logitech G502 Proteus Core Gaming Mouse.

Fractal Design XL-R2 Full Tower ATX Chassis.

HTC Vive Virtual Reality kit.