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There are quite a few issues in getting classic asp scripts working on vista. I want to quickly go over what I did, so that when I need this information available in the future I have an easy place to find it. So to save time I am just trying to get this written as fast as possible and continue on with my work. Sorry for any typos. Install IIS through control panel -> programs and features -> (left panel) “turn windows features on or off” Once the feature listing window populates: expand the “internet information services” item check web management tools and world wide web services …really I went through the options and selected the majority of them. Key ASP related items to make sure you have selected: “world wide web services” -> “application development features” -> ASP I needed windows authentication, so I needed: “world wide web services” -> “sercurity” -> “windows authentication” After tha...

I have a dual screen setup with two 20″ Dell LCD screens. I recently changed my primary screen to be vertically orientated. The benefit here is that I can see a more “global” view of the source file I am currently editing. The irritating thing I stumbled upon was tabulation in Visual Studio. I changed my tabs to be 2 spaces instead of two (to make up for my primary screen having less horizontal space). The issue that I had was all old source files were stuck with 4 space tabbing. Here is what I did to fix the issue: Tools>>options (make sure “Show all settings” is checked) Navigate to Text Editor>>All Languages>>Tabs In the Tab box, change the tab size to 2 and indent size to 2 select “ Keep tabs ” (this tells visual studio to not change tabs to spaces) Okay, so now the editor now uses two tabs and I can manually fix code I made before using shift-tab . This doesn’t solve my issue of having old source files stuck with 4 spaces as one tab. What I just figured out ...