Oracle VirtualBox terminated unexpectedly, with exit code -1073741819 (0xc0000005)

Question

My VirtualBox virtual machine suddenly doesn\'t work, instead producing an error. I don\'t know what is causing this error; I searched Google for a solution, but failed. I have

Answer 1

The fix for me was to upgrade to V 5.2.2 of Virtualbox, phew. Last time this happened it took me 3 days to recover. It always happens after a Windows 10 upgrade. After the last time (over a year ago) I disabled the Windows Update service to avoid it happening again. However for some reason Windows switched the updates back on, all by itself - nice, thanks Microsoft.