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Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by Reverend Jim Further note: Because Microsoft insists on crammine OneDrive down our throats, moving the My Documents is damn near impossible. I've found the easiuest way is to initially set up my computer using a Microsoft Account (something they have also made it almost impossibole to avoid), then create a local admin account and always log on with that. That … Re: 💻 What’s the First App You Install on a Fresh Windows Machine? Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by Dani * Microsoft Office (for macOS) And then to manage DaniWeb: * PhpStorm * Remote Desktop Manager * Viscosity * Screaming Frog SEO Spider Re: 💻 What’s the First App You Install on a Fresh Windows Machine? Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by Dani Jim, I have not used Windows in a very, very long time, but can you not configure Windows to store My Documents on D? 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In IIS, under handler mappings for .asp files, under request restriction/access, script was chosen (not execute) for feature permissions, all 'read' 'script' 'execute' are chosen Re: Cannot run exe from asp.net Programming Web Development by gediminas.bukauskas.7 Pritaeas answered the question: normal WEB security settings forbids launching executables on a client machine. The only legal workaround is to create windows service (daemon in Linux environment), install it on client machine and listen for some commands coming from server over WEB sockets.