AFT Desktop crashes after starting

Installing AFT Desktop onto windows crashes after starting

Errors in Event viewer
1.NET Runtime error:
 Application: ATS.AlgoFuturesTrader.Desktop.exe,
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception type: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80041005): The notification platform is unavailable.
 
2.Application Error:
 Faulting application name: ATS.AlgoFuturesTrader.Desktop.exe,
Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll
Exception code: 0xe0434352

.NET Desktop Runtime

Install the latest .net runtime 8  and restart 

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/8.0

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