nope thats win 8.1 :-)
and i can reproduce it everytime with the inet cable unplugged.
Sounds like something wrong with your system on either a hardware or driver level. User-land software cannot BSOD Windows. Try the following to diagnose:
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Analyze-a-BSOD-Crash-Dump/how about creating a backup of the config files? (xml files)...??
so if any of them r corrupt, it loads the backup.
There is already handling built in for 0 byte XML files. No idea why it didn't kick in for crazyearner. In my tests 0-byte XML files are properly handled by the app.