v17.3 crashes during Install Win10

Tried to load Kodi v17.3 “Krypton” on two new laptops (HP and Lenovo) both using the latest windows 10 – Windows version 1703.
Kodi becomes unstable and keeps crashing at various points of the installation.
Tried installing Kodi several times and reloading it…each time successfully uninstalling the software….but Kodi crashes at various points.
Dumped Windows event log and same error comes up on both machines using same windows version :
” ucrtbase.dll version 10.0.15063 ” APP crash.

What to do ?