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I always have 10-20 or more simultaneously opened debugging sessions (mostly crash dump files) and sometimes I quit the wrong one accidentally or by mistake. After that I have to repeat some commands if I forgot to open a log file. I was very pleased to find today that there is a special WinDbg meta-command that prevents you from such accidents:

.quit_lock command sets a password to prevent you from accidentally ending the debugging session (from WinDbg help).

Here is an example:

0:001> .quit_lock
No quit lock

0:001> .quit_lock /s "password"
Quit lock string is 'password'

0:001> q
.quit_lock -q required to unlock 'q'

0:001> .quit_lock -q "password"
Quit lock removed

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