application exception
0xC000013A CONTROL_C_EXIT
The process exited because someone pressed Ctrl+C or closed the console — often logged as a crash even though it was intentional. Check whether a script or service wrapper killed the app.
What to do about it
- Ignore one-off cases where you closed a console yourself.
- If a background service keeps dying with this code, check the script or task that launches it.
- Look at Task Scheduler history around the same timestamp.
Where you will see this
Windows Error Reporting writes this code into Report.wer files and app-crash minidumps when a program dies but Windows itself stays up. It is not a blue-screen stop code — for those see the stop-code library.
See which module threw this exception
Drop the program's .wer report or crash dump into the app-crash reader — the faulting module is usually the real story. Parsed locally.
Open the app-crash reader →