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Fixing HTTP Error 401.1 in IIS 7.5 on Windows 7

For a test I was trying to run a website on my local Windows 7 machine in IIS 7.5.  I put the website files in my C:\inetpub\wwwroot\MyWebsite. I opened IIS 7.5 and right-clicked on Sites and selected "Add Web Site". In the "Add Web Site" dialog I entered the "Site name", "Physical path" as above and "Host name" and clicked "OK". For the "Select Application Pool" dialog I selected "Classic .NET AppPool" which is .Net 2.0 with Classic Pipeline. I double clicked on "Authentication" and disabled everything and enabled "Windows Authentication" as this is a local intranet website. In "Application Pools" I went into "Advanced Settings" for the "Classic .NET AppPool" and changed the Identity to "Custom account" and entered "my companies domain\my userid" and password, because that is how the website is run on the corporate server unde...

Find files that end with "vbp" in Windows 7 file explorer

I was trying to find an old VB 6 project but I couldn't remember the name of it or where it was on my hard drive but I knew I didn't have very many of them so I opened file explorer and typed "*.vbp" in the search box. This unfortunately returned way too many results because it included *.vbproj files. I wanted just files that ended with "*.vbp" After some searching I found this http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ca/windows7/advanced-tips-for-searching-in-windows which said you could use:  System.FileName:~<"notes" to find files that start with "notes" the ~< means "begins with" so I deduced maybe ~> means "ends with" and sure enough to find files that end with "vbp" put this in the search box: System.FileName:~>"vbp"