When an application crashes on Windows and a debugger such as Visual Studio is installed the following modal dialog appears:

&gt; [Title: Microsoft Windows]
&gt; 
&gt; X has stopped working
&gt; 
&gt; A problem caused the program to stop
&gt; working correctly. Windows will close
&gt; the program and notify you if a
&gt; solution is available.
&gt; 
&gt; [Debug][Close Application]

Is there a way to disable this dialog? That is, have the program just crash and burn silently? 

My scenario is that I would like to run several automated tests, some of which will crash due to bugs in the application under test. I don&#39;t want these dialogs stalling the automation run.

Searching around I think I&#39;ve located the solution for disabling this on Windows XP, which is nuking this reg key:

&gt; HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug\Debugger

However, that did not work on Windows Vista.



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How do I disable the 'Debug / Close Application' dialog on Windows Vista?