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Saving windows command prompt history

Unlike Linux the command prompt history is not saved between sessions. You can see current history by pressing F7 key but as soon as you close the command prompt window that history is gone.. To save the history to a file for later use just type doskey /history >c:\history.log

How to increase IIS buffer limit size

Sometimes IIS gives you HTTP500 server error when trying to write binary data to response (Response.BinaryWrite). Thats because the data is exceeding the buffer limit size. Solution is to increase the limit size (I think default is  4MB). To increase the buffering limit in IIS 6, follow these steps: Click Start, click Run, type cmd, and then click OK. […]