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IIS KB’z

in the early afternoon on February 9, 2007  No Comment

Bernard posted the latest KB’s for IIS.
Most of them are issues with IIS 7.0. Happy reading… :)

Select All does not work in Vista

mid-morning on February 8, 2007  16 Comments

I discovered on unusual bug/feature in Vista.
Most of the times it is not possible to “select all” (CTRL+A, etc etc) the files or folders in some directories. Which makes copying a royal pain in the PEEP.

Some other symptoms are:

  • Select All option in Edit menu is disabled (greyed-out)
  • Mouse highlight over and drag does not work.

Of course I searched the internet looking for people that were having the same problem. There were some suggestions to do a Reset on the folders but that didn’t work for me.

Then I found someone that made a modification to the registry which works. :)

  1. Open Regedit
  2. Navigate to HKCU\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\
  3. Delete the Bags & BagMRU keys

Windows Explorer should be its normal self again.

Hope this helps.

FastCGI part 2

in the early afternoon on February 5, 2007  No Comment

More supermanspeed with php? use the new released FastCGI component from the IIS team.

The FastCGI Technical Preview 2 has been released! This is the second release of the FastCGI component for IIS 5, 6, and 7 since the original announcement of Microsoft’s collaboration with Zend to deliver production quality PHP support for IIS on Windows.

The FastCGI Technical Preview 2 addresses all of the compatibility issues reported by the community for the original release, and adds a number of features to improve the experience of hosting PHP applications on Windows / IIS. It also provides support for deploying the FastCGI component on 64 bit operating systems.