Jim Zimmerman

How bummed out I was when I went to debug a web application locally and my debugger in Visual Studio 2005 did not work on my brand new Vista Machine I had just built.  What?  Was this a joke?  I come to find out it wasn't.  Visual Studio 2005 does not work well and even SP1 has the debugger issue.  After researching it a little bit I began to understand why this was an issue.  The debugger actually gets into the kernel I guess.  So how do you fix this?

Well there are a few ways to do this.  The easy one is when you start visual studio you can right click the icon and select run as administrator.

Also if you want it to just work every time, you can run as a real administrator by Turning User Account Control off.  This will also disable some of those sometimes annoying modal dialog boxes when you launch certain programs.  Here is an attempt at a 10 second demo of how to do it.