Hex Editor Hang

[lmstearn]

Windows 1809 Home:
NPP 7.5.9 (32 bit) doesn't crash with the X86 plugin (2018) on startup with it enabled here, but hangs whenever NPP's file dropdown menu is activated with a hex edited file opened.
There is a good resource on debugging N++ here, and with a bit of free time, it'll be used. In the meantime, as the issue is more than ten years old with this setup, it's most likely one of the other plugins playing up.
The only ones around for that long were HTMLTag and SpellCheck- so if it isn't them, perhaps RunMe or DBGp.
Attached is a bunch of screenshots along with config.xml that might help.
Note there is a "B" drive on this system- some very old classes may not use it as being a floppy alternative bootable. Mostly water under the bridge by 2009. :)
Info.zip