Where can I get WinDbg for Windows 7 without a metric boatload of other stuff?

Question

Where oh where do I find a tool, any tool, that's FOR WINDOWS 7, and would allow me to peek inside a minidump file?

Every answer on the internet sends you to this page:
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/windows-driver-kit

Problem is, that page DOES NOT CONTAIN A LINK TO A STANDALONE DEBUGGER FOR WINDOWS 7. Really, it doesn't. Here are all the links it contains:

WDK Insider Preview builds

Learn more about what's new in driver development

Get Visual Studio Express for Desktop
Get Visual Studio Community 2015
Get Visual Studio Professional 2015
Get Visual Studio Enterprise 2015

Install Window SDK for Windows 10, version 1703 [love the typo, btw]
Install WDK for Windows 10, version 1703

Install the EWDK 1703
Learn more about the EWDK 1703

GitHub
GitHub Extension for Visual Studio
Learn more about what's new for driver samples
Known issues for Hardware Dev kits and tools

Get Visual Studio Express for Desktop
Get Visual Studio Community 2015
Get Visual Studio Professional 2015
Get Visual Studio Enterprise 2015

Install the WDK for Windows 10, version 1607
Install the EWDK 1607

Download Visual Studio 2013
Download WDK 8.1 Update
Download the WDK 8.1 Update Test Pack
Get driver samples for Windows 8.1

Visual Studio Professional 2012
Visual Studio Ultimate
Download WDK 8
Download the WDK 8 redistributable components
Get driver samples for Windows 8

Get (WinDbg) as part of Windows 8.1 SDK
Learn more and prepare for remote debugging
Download the Remote Debugging client

Download WDK 7.1.0 [per the description, this is for developing drivers for Windows XP or Windows Server 2003]
support for the Windows SDK
Get the standalone debugging tools for Windows XP as part of Windows 7 SDK [so close, yet so far: where are the standalone debugging tools for Windows 7?]

If one of those is supposed to be for Windows 7, that's a fact known only to some insider club that I'm not a member of.

Help? And if you answer with a link to that page (or close this as a duplicate of a question where the answers all just point to that page), I will curse you to all eternity.

have you tried the win10 sdk installer to get the debugger? does this work? — magicandre1981, Aug 17 '17 at 15:33

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 11 '17 at 02:51

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/windows-driver-kit

ha ha just kidding. Try these:

WinDbg 32-bit

Upvote Wu Yongzheng's answer to Niall Connaughton's question: "Getting windbg without the whole WDK?" if that was helpful.

I do believe that I first (publicly) documented that well before Windows 10's release, and likely before Windows 8's release. So hopefully that works out perfect for you. The URL also contains a GUID, so I find it unlikely that Microsoft would distribute an updated file at that URL.

While I'm at it, here's some other hyperlinks I documented back in the day.

Here is a downloader: https://download.microsoft.com/download/A/6/A/A6AC035D-DA3F-4F0C-ADA4-37C8E5D34E3D/winsdk_web.exe

Again, that has a GUID, so likely hasn't been updated.

At the time of this writing, I haven't checked how much the following resources may have been updated to reflect Windows 10. All I do know is that I documented this stuff a while ago. So the following may or may not be as helpful for you as the above resources.

Found from https://www.microsoft.com/download/confirmation.aspx?id=8279 which may just redirect to https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=8279 which was found from https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/windows-driver-kit

Get Debugging Tools for Windows (WinDbg) (from the SDK)

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/download-windbg

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 11 '17 at 14:23

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Run the Windows 10 SDK setup and only select the Debugging Tools for Windows

and nothing else. Here you only need to download 200MBs.

answered Aug 11 '17 at 14:23

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**Note:** All debugger versions released after Windows 7 are back-compatible to at least Windows 7. So please don't complain "but that's for 10! I need 7!" It's fine. – Jamie Hanrahan Aug 11 '17 at 21:17
@RickBrant which discussion? Was it deleted? – magicandre1981 Aug 12 '17 at 07:36
I was mostly addressing the OP, who is apparently under the misapprehension that WinDbg that is specifically and only for Windows 7 is what's required. Maybe I should have posted it as a comment to the OQ. – Jamie Hanrahan Aug 12 '17 at 09:53