(2005) Debugging Anything and Everything.

Since installing VS 2005, at start up of applications, I sometimes get a dialog asking me if I want to debug the application.

Every time any app (and we're talking ANY application that I want to run, not just my VS apps) hits a snag, I get this dialog, and the program aborts. Prior to this, the apps would just continue on their way, without a problem.

Unfortunately now they don't run.

Short of uninstalling VS (which will make my job a bit tougher) how do I teach it to leave any program outside of the IDE alone?

I believe when you install vs it becomes your default debugger. Maybe there was no default debugger before and so the application couldn't be debugged.

I get the dialog also, but only when errors occur. If all of your applications keep failing then you may want to get updates for them or try some alternatives.

All applications don't fail. Just one or two, but consistently. I agree that there was previously no default debugger. But the problem is that I don't need, or want, to debug out-of-the-box applications. I have enogh on my plate debugging my own. Much less look at assembly language (shutter!).

If the app would run when I dismissed the dialog, I could pretend to be happy, but it doesn't. Updating applications that previously ran just to appease VS seems wrong to me. Especially since not all apps HAVE updates.

Check out this link: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d....mspx?mfr=true

I did a quick google search and it showed up. Basically, go to the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug and erase whatever is in the Debugger value. Also, if you set the Auto value to 1 no dialog will appear.

It also tells you how to make Dr. Watson the default debugger once again.
Just type 'drwtsn32 -i' in a command prompt.

Hope this helps.