musescore / musescore/MuseScore

Can't open the app because of MuseSampler dll

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Description

Issue type

Crash or freeze

Description with steps to reproduce

I've updated to 4.4 last October, however, since then, my app kept its dysfunction like this.
I've also tried several times reinstalling even the older version, but the bug is still there.

Supporting files, videos and screenshots

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/449cb776-5ed5-4e60-8095-2705598ffe4b

What is the latest version of MuseScore Studio where this issue is present?

4.4.4

Regression

Yes, this used to work in a previous version of MuseScore 4.x

Operating system

windows 11

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