title: VS2013 Professional local 64-bit debugging MSVSMON issue
body: <p>Every time I attempt to start a local debugging session in VS2013 Professional on a Windows 8 64-bit machine, I receive the following error:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/z0gNh.png" alt="Operation taking longer than expected"></p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>"A 64-bit debugging operation is taking longer than expected. This may be caused by incompatibilities with 3rd party networking software. See help for troubleshooting these issues."</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>followed shortly by:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/XFClj.png" alt="Error message that I receive when starting a debugging session"></p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>"Unable to start program. The Microsoft Visual Studio Debugging Monitor (MSVSMON.EXE) does not appear to be running on the remote computer Please see Help for assistance on configuring remote debugging"</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>To start the debugging session, I press the "Local Windows Debugger" button:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/0EUGw.png" alt="&quot;Local Windows Debugger&quot; button"></p>
  
  <p>Nothing scary there: definitely not remote debugging.</p>
  
  <p>Things I've tried:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Installing the <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40781" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Remote Tools for Visual Studio 2013</a></li>
  <li>Running these tools whilst attempting to debug.</li>
  <li>Following the instructions on <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/20379942/308098">this SO answer</a>.</li>
  <li>Turning off my ZoneAlarm firewall completely (although running MSVSMON.EXE manually does not cause it to ask me for permissions... Is it even running a server?)</li>
  <li>Adding an exception to the Windows Firewall for the monitor</li>
  <li>Setting MSVSMON.EXE to "No Authentication" mode</li>
  <li>Checking my "HOSTS" file: Only comments.</li>
  <li>Restarting</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Further symptoms:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Only happens when debugging 64-bit software.</li>
  <li>Happens no matter what language (C++, C# both have the same issue)</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Any help in resolving this would be great. </p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>