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Doing ASP.NET web development on my laptop (Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bits), I was wondering why page rendering was so slow with Firefox 7, when using Visual Studio 2008 and its development web server. Surprisingly, this was not the case with VS2010. Doing some research I found this blog entry , which was quite helpful. The change of the Firefox setting network.dns.disableIPv6 to true did the trick. 1. Type about:config in the address bar. 2. Type v6 in the filter field. See screenshot below:

If the "official" procedure below does'nt work, please check if the Named Pipe protocol is enabled in your SQL Server Configuration Manager. Click Start, click Run, type cmd, and then click OK. Locate the \"Program Files\\Common Files\\Microsoft Shared\\Web server extensions\\12\\BIN\" folder. At the command prompt, type the following commands, and then press ENTER after each command: stsadm -o provisionservice -action stop -servicetype spwebservice -servicename "" stsadm -o provisionservice -action start -servicetype spwebservice -servicename "" After the SPWebService service is started, type the following command at the command prompt, and then press ENTER: psconfig -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -wait -force

HTTP Error 404.11 - Not Found The request filtering module is configured to deny a request that contains a double escape sequence. The request contained a double escape sequence and request filtering is configured on the Web server to deny double escape sequences. Details of the issue is available at: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942076/ Solution 1 Would suggest to read the complete article but just for quick reference I am typing the resolution here. %windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set config "Default Web Site" -section:system.webServer/security/requestfiltering - allowDoubleEscaping="true" Solution 2 Or change manually by opening the following file : %windir%\System32\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config file in notepade. (remember to open notepade with administrator privilege. Solution 3 If you dont want to (or cant) edit the applicationHost.config add the following to the web.config file:   <system.webServer>     <modules r