April 2008 - Posts

Low privileges IIS Application Pools

Published 22 April 8 3:22 PM | Ramon Smits

When you want to create a new application pool you probably want to do this to create an application pool with least privileges for the application that you are going to run with it. This article describes how to create a user account for use in an IIS...

Filed under: Security, Domain account, IIS, Application Pool

Hibernate or standby wakes up computer in seconds

Published 16 April 8 10:51 AM | Ramon Smits

I have this problem that when I wanted to enable one of the power-saving modes (hibernate or standby) that my computer wakes up in seconds. Sometimes almost immediately and sometimes after 10 seconds. My first thought was that it had to do with my mouse...

Filed under: XP, Vista, Stand-by, powercfg, Hibernate, Power saving

Reminder: For loop on the commandprompt

Published 10 April 8 10:52 AM | Ramon Smits

I always forget how to loop through a set of files on the command prompt. For this reason I'm blogging this as a reminder for future reference. FOR %A IN (*.txt) DO ECHO %a In a batch/command file the % character needs to be escaped with an additional...

Filed under: commandprompt