[Problem/Bug]: webview not initializing/rendering when UDF folder is not present

What happened?

We are using webview2 extensively. We see a new issue in one machines alone. Either the webview doesn't initialize or host object doesn't work when the UDF folder is not present and created dynamically. When the UDF folder is made to persist then the both issues are gone, rendering and host objects everything works fine.

When the issue occurs we can see that the count of the msedgewebview processes is 5 rather than 6. I succeeded to reproduce the same issue with the webview sample by adding hostobject implementation.

I observe that a msedgewebview child process is getting created again and again and are short lived. From procmon I didnt see any failures when the processes end. Sometimes the type of the process is renderer, utility, gpu-process. Majority of the short lived child processes spawned are of type utility.

One absurd thing is when I set compatibility settings for the sample webview2gettingstarted executable, then it fixes these issues. The same thing doesn't work on our application.

This is kind of blocker for us. Would really appreciate if there are any inputs.

Importance

Blocking. My app's basic functions are not working due to this issue.

Runtime Channel

Stable release (WebView2 Runtime)

Runtime Version

131.0.2903.112

SDK Version

No response

Framework

Win32

Operating System

Windows 10, Windows 11

OS Version

19045.5247

Repro steps

Opening webview by dynamically creating the UDF folder

Repros in Edge Browser

No, issue does not reproduce in the corresponding Edge version

Regression

No, this never worked

Last working version (if regression)

No response