Spotfire: The installed client crashes on startup when the size of the file "ProbedModulesCached.xml" is 0 KB or corrupt

TIBCO Spotfire installed client crashes on startup when the size of file the "ProbedModulesCached.xml" is 0 KB or corrupt

The TIBCO Spotfire installed client crashes upon start up, and a pop up will appear stating: 

Spotfire has stopped working 
A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close this program and notify you if a solution is available. 

In the Event Viewer, you will see an event like: 

Log Name: Application 
Source: .NET Runtime 
Date: 1/1/2019 11:36:24 AM 
Event ID: 1026 
Task Category: None
Level: Error 
Keywords: Classic User: N/A 
Computer: myComputer 
Description: 
Application: Spotfire.Dxp.exe
Framework Version: v4.0.30319 
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info: System.Xml.XmlException at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(System.Exception) at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseDocumentContent() at System.Xml.XmlLoader.Load(System.Xml.XmlDocument, System.Xml.XmlReader, Boolean) at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(System.Xml.XmlReader) at Spotfire.Dxp.Internal.Xml.SafeXmlHelper.LoadXmlDocument(System.IO.TextReader) at Spotfire.Dxp.Framework.ModuleHandling.ModuleReferenceCollection.Read(System.String) at Spotfire.Dxp.Framework.ModuleHandling.ModuleReferenceCollection.ReadFromFile(System.String) at Starter.Program.Run(Spotfire.Dxp.Starter.StarterSplashWrapper, System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2<System.String,System.Object>, Boolean) at Starter.Program.ExecuteRunLoopWithBootstrapFlag(System.String[], Boolean) at Starter.Program.Main(System.String[]) 

Resolution:

This is caused by one of the internal configuration files being corrupted, or empty (0 KB). For example, if the "ProbedModulesCached.xml" file in folder C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\TIBCO\Spotfire\x.xx\Settings is found to be empty and 0 KB, then this crash will occur. 

To resolve, delete the 0 KB sized "ProbedModulesCached.xml" file, and launch the client again. The file will get automatically created again by the client and the client should successfully launch.