I hope this is responsible for the frequent crashes I get with Emacs 25, or at least most of them. I spent many hours narrowing this down. I'm hoping that that time won't have been wasted. ;-) Recipe: 1. Save the attached file, `e25-crash.el'. 2. runemacs.exe -Q --debug-init -l "/YOUR/PATH/TO/e25-crash.el You will get two frames, one with buffer *scratch*, the other with the minibuffer, buffer *Minibuf-0*. 3. Click the title bar of the frame having buffer *scratch*, to raise and select it. 4. `C-h f prefix-command-preserve-state RET'. 5. Click `mouse-2' on the file name `simple.el' in buffer `*Help*'. CRASH! Note that using a different command for `C-h f', which is not in `simple.el', might not crash Emacs. A guess is that the (now) large size of `simple.el' contributes to the problem. In GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2016-09-17 Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601 Configured using: `configure --without-dbus --without-compress-install CFLAGS=-static'