diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-10-09-12-22-57.bpo-31701.Ti8o41.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-10-09-12-22-57.bpo-31701.Ti8o41.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..a7b4da6acd9f66
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-10-09-12-22-57.bpo-31701.Ti8o41.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+On Windows, faulthandler.enable() now registers the exception handler as the
+last handler to be called, rather than the first to be called. It prevents
+handled C++ exceptions to be logged by faulthandler.
diff --git a/Modules/faulthandler.c b/Modules/faulthandler.c
index c2c2c537b12cf3..41713d5df4c80d 100644
--- a/Modules/faulthandler.c
+++ b/Modules/faulthandler.c
@@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ faulthandler_enable(void)
 
 #ifdef MS_WINDOWS
     assert(fatal_error.exc_handler == NULL);
-    fatal_error.exc_handler = AddVectoredExceptionHandler(1, faulthandler_exc_handler);
+    fatal_error.exc_handler = AddVectoredExceptionHandler(0, faulthandler_exc_handler);
 #endif
     return 0;
 }