How do I stop windbg from being the interactive debugger?

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nick picture nick · Jun 18, 2009 · Viewed 9.5k times · Source

What is the proper way to undo windbg -I on vista/win7?

Is it as simple as deleting the registry keys in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug?

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Michael picture Michael · Jun 18, 2009

You don't need to delete the entire registry key. Deleting the Debugger value is enough.

When an exception occurs, the system first looks to see if there is a debugger registered. If so, it just launches the command line specified. Otherwise, it invokes Windows Error Reporting to collect the crash dump. All Windbg -I does is change the registered debugger value in the AeDebug key.

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