Tablet Mode stuck in a loop

I just installed the Technical Preview (build 10041) on my Asus Vivo Tab Note 8, but after enabling tablet mode and resuming from sleep the computer has become unusable, it looks like it's stuck in a loop enabling, then disabling tablet mode, even after
restarting the machine it starts happening again straight after logging in.
Here's a video showing what's going on:
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=2cd58d1f09ca931d!184023&authkey=!AGVt6U6kaiwNwUw&ithint=video%2cmp4
I can get the Task Manager with the keyboard shortcut, or Run box, so can open the Command Promt and so on. But it doesn't let me open the Notification Pane, or Settings, or even open the Start Menu.
Is there any way to disable tablet mode from the command prompt, or anything else I can do?

can see the process ID for explorer.exe constantly changing in task manager as well.
If it is crashing then it would be losing all state information, so you couldn't do what I suggested about stepping through it using keystrokes. Can you confirm that it is crashing using Event Viewer or Reliability Monitor?
So perhaps a better tack would be to figure out how to disable the automatic recovery that is apparently happening. Then you could restart explorer.exe elevated using Task Manager. However, I'm not sure if the Settings page would still open
then. TBD.
Is there a Registry key I can edit I wonder?
Good idea. I could try using ProcMon to see what changes when I switch modes. I haven't loaded ProcMon on this VM yet so that will be a good thing to do anyway. Even better than "editing the registry" though would be to find out
if PowerShell knows anything about this. Of course it could substitute as our regedit.exe anyway.
Otherwise, I wonder if "Tablet mode" works any differently in Portrait orientation? <eg>
A related test: use Magnifier in its Fullscreen view. Win++ Ctrl+Alt+F and enable full tracking. (Win+Esc exits Magnifier.)
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