diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 494808a234..bb7d57eee6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 - **Vertex JSON Validation Crash:** Prevented `invalid character in header` crashes inside the `/validate` endpoint by creating a native authentication parser that correctly handles Google Identity Service Account JSON flows prior to pinging endpoints (#1153)
 - **Extraneous Payload Rejection:** Globally prevented upstream `400 Bad Request` execution crashes by stripping the non-standard `prompt_cache_retention` attribute forcibly attached by Cursor/Cline IDE engines when targeting strict OpenAI/Anthropic routes (#1154)
 - **Reasoning Content Drop:** Prevented pure reasoning packets, common in advanced fallback models like DeepSeek, from being aborted mid-stream by explicitly adjusting the `Empty Content (502)` circuit breakers to acknowledge `reasoning_content` states as valid (#1155)
+- **Desktop Windows Build Crash:** Fixed `better_sqlite3.node is not a valid Win32 application` preventing OmniRoute Desktop from launching on Windows by properly removing the ABI-mismatched sqlite cache from Next.js standalone and falling back to the cross-compiled Electron equivalent during packager build steps (#1163)
 - **Login Visual Security:** Removed the raw fallback hash dump that artificially rendered underneath the login modal in Docker instances missing `OMNIROUTE_API_KEY_BASE64` flags (#1148)
 
 ### 🔧 Maintenance & Dependencies
diff --git a/scripts/prepare-electron-standalone.mjs b/scripts/prepare-electron-standalone.mjs
index 08810062fd..fec1b81ecb 100644
--- a/scripts/prepare-electron-standalone.mjs
+++ b/scripts/prepare-electron-standalone.mjs
@@ -147,6 +147,10 @@ ensurePackage(
 );
 
 // removed better-sqlite3 to ensure ABI compatibility via electron-builder
+const bundledSqlite = join(ELECTRON_STANDALONE_DIR, "node_modules", "better-sqlite3");
+if (existsSync(bundledSqlite)) {
+  rmSync(bundledSqlite, { recursive: true, force: true });
+}
 
 console.log(
   `[electron] prepared standalone bundle: ${relative(ROOT, ELECTRON_STANDALONE_DIR) || "."}`