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I don't have a 64-bits Windows installation; I cannot try. And VLC cannot "crash Windows". If Windows crashes while using VLC, you have either a device driver or a hardware problem. In fact it does not crash when you move or delete ntdll.dll in System32 and SysWow64. Windows Crash when yo...

I'm no rocket scientist, but I'm guessing something in the unloading of libsid_plugin is caught in an infinite loop. Well that's easy to check. Stop VLC, remove the SID plugin from your VLC installation (or rename to not end in .DLL), and see if the problem goes away. Thank you for the advice, but ...