IDA Win32 Local Debugging

The IDA Debugger allows you to either start a new process (Run) or attach itself to an existing process (Attach)

instant_debugger_menu

Let's select "Local Windows debugger". What we get is a list of currently running processes to which we can attach with a simple click.

connect_to_local

and here is the result once we are attached to the program.

attached_to_local