Note that disabling all mods doesn't work.Failed to load mods: No map setting instance
Setting disable-minimal-mode=true in config.ini makes Factorio throw up the following Windows error dialogue:
Failed to load mod "Flow Control": __Flow Control__/data.lua:1: __Flow Control__/prototypes/entities.lua:31: unexpected symbol near '='
Edit: "Disable all mods" appears to also be disabling "base", which means it won't load again even after the mod error is fixed.