Getting windbg without the whole WDK?

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Niall Connaughton picture Niall Connaughton · Apr 29, 2010 · Viewed 130.7k times · Source

Does anyone know how to get ahold of windbg without having to download the entire 620MB WDK ISO?

All I can find on the net to download the debugger is this link, which says you have to get the whole WDK: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/default.mspx.

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Alex Budovski picture Alex Budovski · Apr 29, 2010

Officially, you can't. But someone's been extracting them for your convenience and hosting them.

Note: You can get the older releases on the official site, but the latest ones are part of the WDK.

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