How do I turn off the fault tolerant heap?

Question

I\'ve recently started seeing this line in my Visual Studio 2005 output window when launching my application:
FTH: (7156): *** Fault tolerant heap shim applied to cu

Answer 1

On Windows 10 the registry location is:

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\FTH

You can remove you executable from the list in:

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\FTH\State

or you can run this command from an elevated command prompt

Rundll32.exe fthsvc.dll,FthSysprepSpecialize

You may need to reboot your machine