I didn't get a chance to try your suggestion, but I did manage to experience a true crash-to-desktop without a program hang (requiring task manager to close) for the first time in some time. This also generated a new error in Event Viewer - pointing to a problem with .NET framework ver. 4.0.30319. Two error logs were generated. Here are the details:
1) Event 1023, .NET Runtime
Application: qbw.exe
Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The process was terminated due to an internal error in the .NET Runtime at IP 00007FFB9F857FBA (00007FFB9F750000) with exit code 80131506.
2) Event 1000, Application Error
Faulting application name: qbw.exe, version: 33.0.4006.3302, time stamp: 0x64e655f7
Faulting module name: clr.dll, version: 4.8.9181.0, time stamp: 0x64b85478
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000000000107fba
Faulting process id: 0x3aec
Faulting application start time: 0x01d9e7e95f1f885e
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Intuit\QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions 23.0\qbw.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\clr.dll
Report Id: f39c503a-812f-4f49-a995-2596edfe088a
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
