Steps to reproduce:
Start the game
Press PLAY
Select the pencil button next to an existing world
Note the game crashes
An example of this failure is attached to this case.
The Event Viewer Application error is reported as:
Faulting application name: Minecraft.Windows.exe, version: 1.21.61.1, time stamp: 0x67aff0f7
Faulting module name: Minecraft.Windows.exe, version: 1.21.61.1, time stamp: 0x67aff0f7
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000000000183e904
Apocryphally I have reports that this is a common problem amongst other players currently.
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