kodi crashes on windows?

hi all, im hoping to get some help to my problem here Smile

have been a kodi user for some time now, like it very much, its the only media player i know that works well with my samsung tv (i connect the pc to the television) and i have become accustomed to this program, i like it and i don’t want to start using another (probably worse) media player.

my problem :
i unistaled my older kodi to install the new version (17.1 Krypton) and it just wont start.
i am going to post the problem signature and i hope someone can help me because i’m at an impass.

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: kodi.exe
Application Version: 17.1.0.0
Application Timestamp: 58d009cf
Fault Module Name: KERNELBASE.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.1.7601.23714
Fault Module Timestamp: 58bf87bb
Exception Code: e06d7363
Exception Offset: 0000c54f
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 2070
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

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after the program is installed i’m pretty shure i can configure it correctly because i have been using it for some time now but at this point i’m just stuck.

thanks in advance for any help the community can offer and thanks for this amazing op’en source program