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rebooting win2003 is a pain enough without having to make up some reasons why. "Was it a hardware failure maybe?" Useful in Live, but as a developer it's a frustration.

So, run menu, gpedit.msc and disable the policies highlighted below.

You can't download more than 2 files at a time from the same domain name. Unless you follow the instructions in this article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/183110

I'm a big fan of clean, meaningful urls, and this add on for .net looks like a well structured way of achieving them.

http://metasapiens.com/PageMethods/Default.aspx

I like tools that help you spring clean your hard drive, and this one also has an interesting new concept to visualise folders and disk space. 

for free at http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/

How to enable flash / activex controls to run automatically.

Click to activate and use this control

should you so wish, you can now subscribe to my blog feed via feedburner

http://feeds.feedburner.com/wordpress/sharepoints

Will be interesting, (or depressing) to see the stats…

There's a new community site for IIS, with most of the content currently targeting IIS7.

http://www.iis.net.

Nice to see what tools the IIS team use, their thoughts on new features and what they're doing with IIS7.

There's even a team photo

This isn't a new idea, but having your favorites online is useful for when you're off site. Here is Microsoft's version of it.

http://favorites.live.com/

All they now need to do is add a feature to IE7 that keeps them syncronised with the favorites in your client via web services and it would be genuinely useful.